Abstract:

The research has been done with the aim of revealing the relation of high school students’ anger levels who do sport at school to different variables. As the research model, descriptive model has been taken up in quantitative research methods. The research group consists of 527 adolescent students who study at various high schools in Karaman province center. Adolescent Anger Rating Scale (AARS) has been used in order to determine participants’ anger levels that was developed for 11-19 age adolescents by Burney (2001) and was adapted to Turkish by Aslan and Sevinçler-Togan (2009). With this scale, four anger type points are obtained: reactive anger, instrumental anger, anger control and total anger. Multiple regression analysis has been used in order to determine cause and effect relation between dependent and independent variables. SPSS (Statistical package for social sciences) package programme has been used so as to evaluate data and finding estimated values. It can be said that total anger point average of participant adolescent is (Mean77,41), instrumental anger point average of adolescent anger level sub-dimension is (Mean=14,78), reactive anger point is (Mean=20,20) and anger control point average is (Mean=42, ) which are in low levels. According to the results, a low level meaningful relation between anger levels was found in Do you do sport?, How often do you do sport?, family income and school type variables.

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