Abstract:

This study aims to study the stress levels perceived by tennis athletes according to some variables. These variables have been treated as gender, age and year of sporting. The universe of the research consists of a total of 290 tennis players, including 138 women and 152 men, who played tennis in the tennis clubs associated with the Federation of Tennis in Turkey, selected by random method. In the research, personal information, forms and detected stress measurements, developed by Cohen et al., (1983) and adapted to Turkish by Baltaş et al., (1998) were used as a tool for data collection. In the research data analysis, the research is in the scan model. Frequency analysis for demographic factors. Analysis methods have been used by Mann Whitney U Analysis and Kruskal Wallis Analysis. The dual Mann Whitney U analysis has been used to understand which group of differences in the variables that differ. According to the research findings, there was no significant difference in the stress levels perceived by the gender and age variable (p>0.0.5). The stress levels perceived by the tennis players were significantly different from the year of sporting, the difference was between 1-4 years and 9+ years (p=0.02) and 5-8 years and 9+ years (p=0.01) (p<0.05). As a result, the increase in the years of the tennis players doing sports, the level of stress perceived has also increased.

Keywords:

Keywords: