Mendacious confidence of sportspersons on their level of theoretical and applied knowledge of yoga: Emergent need and significant feasibility of yoga for sports based mobile application

The purpose of this investigation was to assess the Need and Feasibility of Yoga for Sports based Mobile Application, which the research investigator intends to develop, for the Amateur Sports Populace of India. The need was tested by analyzing the Yoga for Sports Knowledge (YSKQ) of Sportspersons and the feasibility was tested by analyzing the opinion through Yoga for Sports Opinionnaire (YFSO) of Sportspersons. The study was delimited to the purposively selected Sportspersons (n=16), belonging to the Sport of Basketball, Badminton, Football, and Volleyball, from Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and Sports Science, (I.G.I.P.E.S.S.) and their responses represented the status of whole population of (I.G.I.P.E.S.S.). The investigation was administered by the application of Yoga for Sports Knowledge Questionnaire (YSKQ) having 48 MCQ’s and Yoga for Sports Opinionnaire (YFSO) with the Sportspersons. The Descriptive and Inferential analysis of YSKQ recorded a score of 23.6±10.2 (Mean±Standard Deviation in Percentage) and a score of 0.001 (P-Value) on an Independent and One-Tailed Sign-Test, that was found to be significant at <0.01 Level of Significance, that respectively substantiated that the Sportspersons were not able to score passing marks on YSKQ. Furthermore, the Fisher Exact Test on Research Specific Question No.1, that asked Sportspersons to assume their results on YSKQ after completely responding to the YSKQ, reported a score of 0.000 (P-Value), that too was found to be significant at <0.001 Level of Significance, that pointed out that majority of Sportspersons thought that they will be able to pass and score 33.3% on YSKQ but actually failed to achieve so. Thus, Yoga for Sports Opinionnaire and Research Specific Response of the selected Sportspersons reported their mendacious confidence over their level of Knowledge on Yoga for Sports and there is a great scope of Yoga for Sports Specific Academic intervention and professional assistance to the sportspersons of I.G.I.P.E.S.S. through the proposed Yoga for Sports Based Mobile Application.