Abstract:

It is thought that aggression and anger can be experienced in sports, which includes competitive phenomena such as struggle, victory and defeat. Therefore, it is important to carry out the study named "Comparison of Aggression and Anger Tendencies of Defensive and Offensive Athletes in Sports". The universe of this research consists of licensed athletes living in Izmir. The sample group is It consists of 340 athletes in total, 170 of whom play sports in defensive style and 170 do sports in offensive style. In the study, stratified random sampling, one of the random sampling methods, was used. Aggression and Anger in Sports Scale (SSAS), developed by Maxwell and Moores (2007) and adapted into Turkish by Gürbüz et al., (2019), was used as a data collection tool in the study. In addition, a personal information form containing demographic information was directed to the participants. Independent Sample T-Test was used to compare the variables. There is a high level of significant difference between team and individual athletes in the anger sub-dimension in defensive athletes (p<0.05). It has been determined that this significant difference is in favor of the athletes who do individual sports. In the sub-dimension of aggression in defensive athletes, there is a significant difference between the athletes who attended and did not attend psychology seminars (p<0.05). It was determined that the significant difference was in favor of those who attended seminars with psychology content. According to smoking status, there is a significant difference in the anger sub-dimension in defensive and offensive athletes (high level), and in offensive athletes in the aggression sub-dimension (p<0.05). It was determined that there was a significant difference in the sub-dimensions of aggression in offensive athletes, anger in defensive athletes and anger in offensive athletes in favor of non-smokers. Especially in the field of sports, more scientific studies should be carried out in order to minimize aggression and anger tendencies, athletes, trainers, managers. It is recommended to raise awareness of sports elements more.

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