📄 Abstract
Performance in sports and games depends on both physical and mental abilities. Body and mind have an equal contribution in human success. Psychologists are intrigued to find out about the brain's emergent features, which connect psychology to neuroscience. They do studies on personality, motivation, brain function, intelligence, emotion, perception, cognition, attention, and emotion. Interpersonal interactions, psychological resilience, family resilience, and other social psychology-related topics are all of interest to psychologists. The Greek word psyche, which means spirit or soul, is where the word psychology comes from. The Renaissance marked the time the word psychology was first used. Methods To achieve the determination of the study 60 college men were selected Chennai District, Tamil Nadu. Their aged of the subject ranged from 18 to 16 years. Selected subjects was randomly allotted to three equal groups (n=20), group I underwent weight lifters, group II (n=20) acted as power lifters and group III (n=20) underwent body physique. The following variables were measured with standard test items: Self- confidence (Confidence level inventory developed by Philippa Davies (2003) and Stress (Giordano and Everly (1979) Stress inventory). Result The data was analyzed by smearing paired sample ‘t test. The level of significance was set at 0.05. The weight lifting power lifting and body physique had positive impact on self- confidence and stress. Conclusion The results of the present study are in confirmatory with the findings of (Review). Thus it is concluded that weight lifters pointedly improves self- confidence and stress better then power lifters and body physique.
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Mr. Marudhu Baskar, Dr. P. Kumaravelu , COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS AMONG WEIGHTLIFTERS, POWER LIFTERS AND BODYBUILDERS , Volume 10 , Issue 12, December 2025, EPRA International Journal of Research & Development (IJRD) , Pages: 15 - 19 ,