A CORRELATIONAL STUDY OF PERSONALITY FACETS AND SELF ESTEEM IN SPORTS AND NON-SPORTS COLLEGE STUDENTS OF JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY

The aim of the present study was to nd out correlational study of personality facets and self esteem in sports and nonsports college students of Jadavpur University. To fulll the objectives total one hundred male students were included and further divided into two groups, students involved in sports (N-50) & not involved in sports (N-50). They all were assessed on personality facets and on their self-esteem with the help of Eysenck Personality Inventory and Self-Esteem scale by Rosenberg. The result of the present study indicate that there is no signicant relationship in personality facets (neuroticism, psychoticism, and extraversion) and self-esteem in both the groups of college students (involved in sports and non involved in sports). Secondly, non-sports college students were found to have signicant more psychotic and neurotic traits as compared to sports college students. Thirdly, sports college students have signicantly more extraversion traits than non sports college student. And nally, both the groups did not signicantly differ in self-esteem traits.