Attitude of Higher Secondary Level student towards Games and Sports

: The purpose of the study is to find out the attitude of students towards Games and Sports. Games and Sports contribute towards social, mental, emotional and intellectual development. Vigorous activity is basically meant for increasing the efficiency of the body and human being need to be fit efficiently throughout their lives. To take part in games and sports activities one can develop his health definitely. A healthy society needs the healthy individual. The aim of the present investigation is to study the attitude of the students of Higher Secondary Level of Manipur towards Games and Sports. In other words the main goal of this research is to ascertain the role of the favourable attitude towards Games and Sports. The parents of the students of Higher Secondary School Level of Manipur had progressive nature about games and sports. These progressive natures were very helpful to develop the favourable attitude of their children towards games and sports. The above finding of the study clearly indicates that the Higher Secondary School level students of Manipur had favourable attitude towards games and sports. Overall apart from the above finding, the study found that the Higher Secondary School level students of Manipur are keenly interested in games and sports.

from one"s actions. Laycock [5] are of the view that, there are emotional intellectual and motivation components of attitude. Robert Ellis [6], Attitude involves some knowledge of a situation, however, the essential aspect of the attitude is found in the fact that some characteristic feeling or emotion is experienced, and as we would accordingly expect, some definite tendency to action is associated subjectively. Then the important factor is feeling or emotion objectively, it is the response or at least the tendency to respond. If we are to change attitude, we must change their emotional components.
Attitude of students is an important area for research. It is an important segment of an individual"s readiness. Status has an effect on the individual"s reaction to a situation may be further stated that attitudes are learned or acquired they may be influenced by teaching. Attitude has environmental effects also. Individual"s attitude is guided and guarded by his parents" views, well wishers" views and by some social factors. Home and School are two unique institutions to form right attitude towards and object. The purpose of the study is to find out the attitude of students towards Games and Sports. Games and Sports contribute towards social, mental, emotional and intellectual development. Vigorous activity is basically meant for increasing the efficiency of the body and human being need to be fit efficiently throughout their lives. To take part i n games and sports activities one can develop his health definitely. A healthy society needs the healthyindividual.

Method:
The idea behind this investigation is to study the inclination and opinion of the students of higher secondary level of Manipur towards games and sports. For this investigation an "Attitude Inventory" was prepared on the basis of "Likert Technique". This attitude inventory was prepared after consultation with the supervisor of this study and with other three experts in the field. As per opinion of the experts and supervisor, the investigator modified the inventory. After taking final approval from the supervisor the attitude inventory were administered to the subjects. While preparing attitude inventory as questionnaire, different factors that affect the attitude were consider. It was not possible to consider almost all factors that may affect attitude. Some important factors and factors related to students" attitude were considered for the investigation. The attitude inventory contains two parts as section "A" and Section "B". The first part was prepared for the preliminary information of the subjects. It contains 14 questions based on objective type questions. It was a short questionnaire form. The purpose of this part was to collect the information related to attitude. It was collected the followings: The attitude inventory prepared for this study had 50 statements. A score of 200 points (50x4) was the highest possible in all statements were related in the strongly agree category. If all statements were rated with a scale value of zero means strongly disagree, the total score would be zero. The subject"s total score was sum of the values received on each statement. The 100 male students and 80 female students of Higher Secondary Schools of Manipur were selected randomly from 4 district of Manipur, namely, Imphal West, Imphal East, Thoubal and Bishnupur Districts. 25% of the total number (N=45) were selected from the highest category and another 25% (N=45) from the lowest category. Calculation of the "t" for evaluating the difference in the mean responses for an attitude by high and low group.

Result:
The Attitude Scale Consisted of 50 items. A score of 200 points was the highest possible if all the students were rated in the "Strongly Agree" Category having a Scale value of 4 points. If all the statements were rated with a scale value of Zero i.e. "Strongly Disagree", the total score would be zero.The total number of students taken for this investigation was 180. It will be necessary to see the altitude of total sample towards games and Sports. In order to see the attitude of Higher Secondary School level Students of Manipur towards games and sports, it is necessary to calculate the different statistics of mean and standard deviation for the total number of respondents of the Sample ( N=180 ). The following Table No. 1 gives the descriptive statistics of the total sample. Lowest Score = 126 From the above statistical figures it is observed that the mean, median and standard deviation of the total sample are 154.86, 150.26 and 5.77 respectively. The highest Score was 193 (190-194 class interval) and the lowest score was 126 (125-129 class interval). It clearly indicates that the whole sample is of favourable attitude towards Games and Sports. We may state that the Higher Secondary School level students of Manipur, may be boys or girls, are of favourable attitude towards Games and Sports.
The item analysis on the basis of the "t" formula was done for each item and the obtained "t" values of each item of the selected samples are shown in the following From the above "t" values of each item (statement 1 to 50) of high group and the low group of total sample clearly indicates that the students of higher Secondary level of Manipur have favourable attitude towards games and sport. The points of view of assessing the attitude of different categories of population it will be an informative to study the standing of this various groups on the scale of attitude. The following Table No. 3 gives the score and different statistics in respect of the various items.

Discussion:
After the analysis of data of whole sample, it is observed that the whole sample (N = 180 ) has shown favourable attitude towards games and sports. It clearly indicates that the Higher Secondary level students of Manipur have favourable attitude towards games and sports.
The study indicates that the Higher Secondary level students of Manipur had a favourable attitude towards games and sports. The male students had more favourable attitude towards game and sports than that of the female students. The study also revealed that the athlete students had more favourable attitude towards games and sports than that of the nonathlete students. The majority of the students were belongs to the middle class family and they had more favourable attitudes towards games and sports. The study also revealed that the parents of the majority of the students had progressive nature about games and sports. It clearly indicates that the parents support had positive effect on the attitude of their children.
Majority of the Students of Higher Secondary School Level were athletes. They played any games or sports events regularly. The Boys students of Higher Secondary School Level of Manipur have more favourable attitude towards games and sports than that of the girls" students. Undoubtedly the girls students are also had favourable attitude towards games and sports. The economic status of parents of the Higher Secondary School Level students of Manipur does not affect the favourable attitudes of the students towards games and sports because most of them were from the middle class family. The parents of the students of Higher Secondary School Level of Manipur had progressive nature about games and sports. These progressive natures were very helpful to develop the favourable attitude of their children towards games and sports. The above finding of the study clearly indicates that the Higher Secondary School level students of Manipur had favourable attitude towards games and sports.
Overall apart from the above finding, the study found that the Higher Secondary School level students of Manipur are keenly interested in games and sports.