DETERMINATION of THE VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS’ ANGER EXPRESSION STYLES IN TERMS OF SOME VARIABLE

Abstract

This research was done with the aim of revealing whether anger expression styles differ in terms of different variables or not. Descriptive method, one of the quantitative research methods, was adopted as the search model.

Research group consists of 50 male and 59 female players who play at youth volleyball league in Konya city center. “ The State-Trait Anger Scale (STAS)” and “Personal Information Form” which was developed by researcher in order to determine personal characteristic of athletes, were used as data collection tool. The one Kolmogorov Smirnov Test was used in order to determine whether measures are suitable for normal dispersion or not.  Kruskal Wallis-H test and Mann Whitney-U test were used on analyzing and evaluating the data, and meaningfulness was obtained as P<0,05. SPSS (Statistical package for social sciences) package programme was used on evaluating data and finding calculated values.

It can be said that the trait anger point averageof the athletes participated in the research with (Mean=23,4679), internalized anger point average (Mean=17,7156), sub dimension of anger locution, and  externalized anger point average (Mean=16,6514) was low but,  their controlled anger point average was high with (Ort.=21,0734).

Meaningful difference was found in terms of personal characteristic on trait anger and anger types of participants’ gender, education status, place of residence and sport beginning age variables whereas meaningful difference was not found on their parents education, parents occupation, family income and family member number variables

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