Vol. 8, Issue 5, Part B (2022)

Abstract
The presented study was to assess achievement motivation and mental rehearsal among swimmers, cyclists and runners. In the study total ninety male subjects were taken (30 swimmers, 30 cyclists and 30 runners) all were national players from different states of India. Their age ranging from 17yr to 33yr.The data were assessed through Psychological skills inventory (PSI) Wheaton, 1998. And the collected data were from swimming, cycling and running national/all India intervarsity tournament held in India 2021-22. The collected data was analyzed by computing the descriptive statistics and one – way ANOVA analysis to find out mean, standard deviation and variance among swimmers, cyclists and runners. For testing the hypothesis, the degree of significance was set at 0.05.Statistical analysis was conducted by using statistical packages for social science (IBM SPSS 20 Version). As a result the findings states that the F-value in one way ANOVA is significant because P-value < 0.05 of Achievement motivation and Mental rehearsal, thus the null hypothesis of equality of variance may not be accepted and it is concluded that the significant difference occurred between swimmers, cyclist and runners in Achievement motivation and Mental rehearsal.