88 www.ijsir.co.in International Journal of Scientific and Innovative Research 2015; 3(1) : 88-90, P-ISSN 2347-2189, E- ISSN 2347-4971 INTRODUCTION In modern era, games and sports hold a prominent place in life. Millions of people participate in sporting activities and spend billions of rupees or dollars annually on sports related activities and equipment. The impact of sports on modem society has made it clear that sports are a very legitimate field of academic study. Modem thinkers in education now a days emphasize that the best individual is one, who is physically fit, mentally sound and sharp, emotionally balanced and socially well adjusted. In modern time, competition in sports needs psychological preparation of term or individual players. It is important as teaching the different skills of a game on scientific lines. It is said that modern warfare is not fought and won with psychological strategies, similar is the case with modern sports. Sport’s psychology suggests that teams prepared not to play the game but also to win the game. Most of the coaches agree that physical characteristics, skills and training of the players are extremely important but they also indicate that good mental preparation for competition is a necessary component for success. A COMPARISON OF SPORTS STRESS AND PERSONALITY TRAITS AMONG SPORTS COLLEGE, SPORTS HOSTEL AND STADIUM BADMINTON PLAYERS TANUJ KUMAR, 1 SATISH SINGH 1 , MANJEET SINGH BHANDARI 1 , RAKESH PRASAD SEMWAL 1 , * ABHAY SINGH 2 1 Research Scholar, Sai Nath University, Ranchi, India, 2 Department of Physical Education, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, U.P., India *Address For correspondence: Dr. Abhay Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, U.P., India, Email ID: abhay_coach@rediffmail.com ABSTRACT Badminton is still an amateur game, but the level of commitment shows in terms in number of hours of training by the subjects. The study suggests a professional attitude to the game at this level. The information obtained from this study provides a platform for further research. The pressure and personality rate in the term of competitive exposure time and training time should be determined. Despite the limitations of this study the results provide a useful insight into the nature, site and variables. It was an intensive attempt to excessively examine such variables. Keywords: Stress, Personality, Traits, Sports Sport is one of the avenues of man’s never ceasing strive for excellence. Its uniqueness lies in the intimacy between the physical happenings of human bodies and their repercussions on their minds; as well as in the general reconcilability of the social and aesthetic values which sport engenders. Sport evokes experiences that are exclusively human and independent of the changing forms, patterns and customs of a civilization which involves profoundly modifying concepts of our environment. Sports involve extremely complex behavioral issues. As a consequence of intense competition sportsman’s behavior may also undergo important changes. So physical education scientists and coaches have not to be expert only in the matter of skill training but also to be engineers who understand the mechanism of human behavior on the playfields, under extremely diverse situations. Although badminton is one of the most played sports in the world, in India it has also been taken as one of the important individual sport. India has produced high level of skilled players. In this problem we want to see that among the various players who can handle the problems easily and they can become good