• RAMESHA R
• Dr. MADIALAGAN S

The aim of this research is to know the Performance of male Wrestlers of different weight categories and also found the relationship of Performance of male Wrestlers with psychological variables that is sports aggression and sports competition anxiety. One Hundred eight male wrestlers drawn from different training centre of Karnataka State are selected as subjects on purposive sampling technique. The subjects are regular participants in different wrestling championships from national level. The age of the subjects were ranged from 16-20 years. To know the sports aggression among the wrestlers, Sports Aggression Inventory developed by Anand and Prem Shankar Shukla) and to identify the sports competition anxiety Sports Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT) by Reiner and Martin were utilized. The Performance of wrestlers was considered dependent variable and sports aggression,s ports competitive anxiety were considered as independent variables. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to know the significant differences among the groups and further the Scheffe’s Post Hoc test was used to identify the paired mean differences statistically. Further Coefficient of Correlation was used to find out the relationship between variables. From the ANOVA results it was concluded that there was a significant difference in Performance of Wrestlers of different weight categories. The heavy weight (M=8.424) wrestlers had better performance when compared with middle weight (M=8.330) and lower weight categories wrestlers (M=7.472). The correlation also found significant positive relationship of Sports Aggression and negative relationship of Sports Competitive Anxiety with Performance of male wrestlers. The players who had higher sports aggression and less competition anxiety had higher the performance of Wrestlers. The data also revealed that awareness about sports aggression and competition anxiety and its positive/negative effects and also control process and practices such as meditation, yoga. Psychotherapy is most important to overcome and face anxiety and aggression in sports participation

Performance, Competition Anxiety, Sports Aggression, Male Wrestler

"RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELECTED PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES AND PERFORMANCE OF MALE WRESTLERS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.535-540, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905W31.pdf

"RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELECTED PSYCHOLOGICAL VARIABLES AND PERFORMANCE OF MALE WRESTLERS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp535-540, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905W31.pdf