Psychomotor Abilities of Basketball in Different Age Groups: A Comparative Study

The purpose of the study was to compare the psychomotor abilities of basketball players among different age groups. For the purpose of this study 90 basketball players of school level girls from Gujarat states of who participated in inter variety competitions, like state and national Championship and inter-university level in basketball. A total of 90 subjects were selected 30 from each level i.e. Sub-Junior, Junior and Senior. The psychomotor abilities are Kinaesthetic Perception, Speed of Movement and Response Time. To compare the psychomotor abilities of basketball players among different age categories, analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was employed at .05 level of significance. Basketball players were best in kinesthetics perception with performance 1.25. Sub-Junior level Basketball player were observed lowest among the three groups with performance of 1.99 and Junior levels were found better than Sub-Junior level but lesser than national level players in kinesthetic perception. The senior level basketball players were best in speed of movement with performance of 11.71. The performance observed for other groups were Sub-Junior level 8.95, junior level 9.9. The mean performance difference between various groups were found as – 0.52 between sub-junior and junior, 0.57 between sub-junior and senior, 0.03 between junior and senior. Above finding clearly implies that Junior and Senior level Basketball player are significantly better than Sub-Junior level player on response time. However, Junior and Senior players were of equal level.