Students Athletes Academic Improvement through Time Management Skills A Case of University of Baghdad

Abstract

The study is focused upon the student athlete improvement through time management skills in University of Baghdad. The participant selected for the study were the student athletes who have been enrolled in the Spring 2018 semester and had participated in at least in once in the sport activity and moreover they are registered for the Fall 2018 semester 100 participants were selected on the basis of the given criteria. For testing the stress level Sheldon Cohen’s perceived stress scale was adopted. Cohen et al., (1983) developed this scale for measuring the perceived stress of individuals. The second variable was CGPA. The student CGPA data was collected from their respective faculties and department for two semesters i.e. spring and fall 2018. A paired sample ttest was utilized to test the hypotheses. Paired sample t-test are used to find out the differences in pre and post treatment results of same sample. For testing the two hypotheses. The significance level of 0.05 was used. The result shows the significant difference in stress level and academic performance of the student athletes before and after the time management skills workshop.