CASIRJ Volume 4 Issue 3 ISSN 2319 – 9202 A Comparative Study on Task Orientation & Ego Orientation among Players Belonging to Open Skill & Closed Skill Sports Vikas Doctoral Fellow, Department of Physical education & Sports Sciences, University of Delhi Vishal Goswami Doctoral Fellow, Department of Physical education & Sports Sciences, University of Delhi Rajshree Pandey Doctoral Fellow, Department of Physical education & Sports Sciences, University of Delhi Abstract The concept of goal orientation was developed to describe variability in dispositional or situational goal preferences that an individual implicitly sets for him/herself in achievement situations. Two goals perspectives are related to the conception of ability adopted by an individual and this reflect how the child defines success and judged his or her competence i.e., task orientation & ego orientation. In the present study we strived to find out and compare the