Mental Toughness and Sports Achievement in Hockey

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Hockey is a physically and mentally demanding sport. In India, hockey is followed and played across length and breadth of the country. Despite its popularity and government efforts in the form of infrastructure and coaching, Indian men’s hockey team still unable to win any major title since ages. Although Indian men’s hockey team performed well at Rio Olympics, they were unable to secure medal position. In some of the matches India lost despite taking lead. This needs to be assessed in terms of psychological potentiality. One such variable which encompasses quite a few psychological characteristics is mental toughness. It has been scientifically documented that mental toughness is a key element for sports performance. Hence researcher decided to assess mental toughness of national, state and district level male hockey players.