• Dr. RAJASHEKHAR D. BENAKANAHALLI

The purpose of the study is to find out the status of psychological performance of college Students of Vijayapura District. The study was chosen as descriptive survey method. The study was chosen as descriptive survey method. One hundred thirty students from age range between 17 to 21 years studying government, private aided and private unaided colleges of Vijayapura District, Karnataka were selected for the present investigation. The population comprised of degree colleges students of both male and female equally and they were studied in first and second year degrees of varied streams. The criterion variable selected for the study is Psychological Performance and intervening variables such, sex and type of management. Psychological Performance Inventory developed by Loehr (1986) was used to know the status of psychological performance of students in terms of Self Confidence, Negative Energy Control, Attention Control, Visual/Imagery Control, Motivational Level, Positive Energy Control and Attitude Control. In the present research, overall psychological performance considered to identify the psychological performance among students. The Independent ‘t’ test was utilized to know the significant differences in the Psychological Performance among students with regard to sex and type of management. The statistical results were obtained with the help of SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) Software Version 20.0 and MS Excel 2015. The level of significance was fixed at 0.05 level of confidence. From the percentage analysis it was found that 1.50% college students expressed excellent skills, 89.20% students expressed needs to improvement of skills and only 9.2% of college students expressed needs special attention for improving psychological performance among college students. From ‘t’ test analysis it was found that there was a significant difference in the Psychological Performance between college male and female students. Male students had better psychological performance when compared with female students. The ‘t’ test also found that there was a significant difference in the Psychological Performance of college students studying in government, private aided and private unaided colleges. The students from private unaided management had better mental strength when compared with students of private aided and government colleges. The government and private aided colleges should take precaution to developing psychological skills among their students by utilizing proper training and conducive environment and develop attitude and awareness about positive thinking, visualization, anxiety control, goal setting and attention control among students.

College students, Psychological Performance, Mental Toughness.

"A STUDY ON PSYCHOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 3, page no.338-342, March-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2103434.pdf

"A STUDY ON PSYCHOLOGICAL PERFORMANCE AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 3, page no. pp338-342, March-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2103434.pdf