- The Online Journal of Recreation and Sports
- Vol: 6 Issue: 2
- INVESTIGATION OF MENTAL WELL-BEING AND AGGRESSION LEVEL OF KARATE-DO ATHLETES
INVESTIGATION OF MENTAL WELL-BEING AND AGGRESSION LEVEL OF KARATE-DO ATHLETES
Authors : Tebessüm Ayyildiz, Belgin Gökyürek
Pages : 14-31
Doi:10.22282/ojrs.2017.10
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Publication Date : 2017-04-01
Article Type : Research
Abstract :This study is conducted to evaluate the aggression and mental well-being levels of karate-do athletes and determinate the effects of some variables. The study group consists of 103 male and 65 female participants who were chosen among the karate do athletes of 5 sports club which is in business in the city of Ankara. During the data collection, Aggression Inventory which has been designed as 30 question and three sub-tests by Kiper 1984 , and Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale WEMWBS , which has been designed by Tennant et al. 2007 was translate to Turkish after the reliability and validity studies by Keldal 2015 made up of 14 questions and one dimension. Descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA and Tukey test were used in the analysis of the data. Internal consistency reliability is .91 for mental well-being and .80 for aggression scales in the study. When all the results are considered, it can be seen that the well- being level and aggression level of people doing karate-do are in high level, most of the participants shows passive aggression. And, it can also be seen that the mental there is a difference between well-being level and participants who have middle level of a belt. Agression level changes by style of the branch, participants who does kata more, have higher total aggression points and have more passive aggression levels. Findings show that; destructive aggression level increases when participants lack of medal. In addition, there were no statistically significant differences between mental wellbeing and aggression levels of the participants and gender, age, marital status, educational status, level of income they perceived, presence of other athletes in their families and selecting to the national team variables. According to correlation analysis which is to analyze mental well-being, aggression and subtests of aggression points; there was a weak positive correlation between mental well-being and passive aggression while there was a negative correlation between mental wellbeing and assertiveness sub test of aggression. As a result of the research, it is seen that that karate-do athletes who do kata have a high degree of aggression and those who have blue belt as a karate-do belt have higher mental well-being level. These results show that karate athletes make expression of passive aggressiveness. Having a medal for this sample group is a more combative image, but when we look at the hierarchical belt system, we find that the participants in the blue belt status, which is known as the middle level, have a higher level of mental well-beinKeywords : Karate-do, aggression, mental well-being.