Abstract:

The aim of this study is to examine the perception of anger and aggression of athletes in terms of various variables. The survey method, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the study. The participants of this research are 373 (187 female, 186 male) athletes determined by the snowball sampling method. Competitive Aggressiveness and Anger Scale (CAAS) which was developed by Maxwell and Moore (2007) and adapted into Turkish by Gürbüz et al. (2019) was used in this study as data collection tool. As a result of the Cronbach Alpha internal-consistency analysis, the values were calculated as 0.84 for the “Anger” sub-dimension, 0.78 for the “Aggression” sub-dimension, and 0.86 for the overall scale. According to the results of the independent samples t-test for gender and sports branch variables, a significant difference was found between the groups in the aggression sub-dimension (p<0,05). According to the results of the ANOVA test, no significant difference was found in the mother's education level and family monthly income level variables (p>0,05). According to the results of the ANOVA test conducted for the variables father's education level, sports age and the education level of the athlete, a significant difference was found between the groups. The Pearson Correlation Analysis indicated that there was a low level of positive and significant relationship between age and anger (p<0,05). As a result, it has been revealed that the anger and aggression levels of the athletes differ according to the variables of age, gender, sports branch, education level of the athlete, father education level and sports age.

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