Objective
The aim of this research is to examine the aggression profiles of athletes and sedentary individuals. In the research, scanning model was used to determine the current situation.
Methods
The population of the research consists of individuals who live in Yozgat, do sports and do not. The sample of the study consists of 191 individuals randomly selected. As data collection tools in the research, the “Personal Information Form” created by the researcher and the “aggression scale” developed by Buss and Perry were translated into Turkish by H Andaç Demirtaş in 2012, a reliability study was carried out. In the analysis of the data, the frequency and percentage distributions describing the personal characteristics of the participants were extracted, the arithmetic averages and standard deviations of the answers given to the scales were calculated, and the distributions regarding the violence tendencies and aggression levels were determined. With independent variables related to sub-problems; Violence tendency and aggression levels were tested with parametric tests, t-test was used for pairwise comparisons and One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used for comparisons of three or more groups. The level of significance in the analysis was taken as “p < 0.05”.
Results
According to the research results; it was determined that there was a significant difference between the variables of gender, licensed sports, nationality status and aggression level, and there was no significant difference between the level of aggression, income level, sports age and aggression level.
Conclusions
In the literature, it is thought that there is a study that supports and does not support the results obtained from the study.