Profile of mood state on individual and team sports / Faizeatul Ramli

The main purpose of this study was to determine the mean difference between
individual and team sports among individual and team sports athletes from Vitro Shah
Alam. The participants comprised of male and female athletes age ranged 19 to 24 years
old (N=60). Mood states were measured by the Profile of Mood States (POMS)
questionnaire that includes six sub-scales, anger, confusion, depression, fatigue, tension
and vigor. The questionnaire was distributed to the participants within 30 minutes before
the prior competition. In order to analyze data, descriptive statistics (mean, standard
deviation), and independent t-test were used. The result indicated that the mean for
individual sports participants was higher on vigor (mean=21.23) of POMS in compared
with the mean for team sports participants was depression (mean=19.97). However, in
result of POMS, using an independent t-test, it was confirmed that mean difference
between mood state and both sports were significant with, t (-7.928) = -9.3, P = 0.001
(two-tailed). This represent a very strong effect, d = 16.07.