Investigation of the relationship between aggression levels and basic psychological needs school of physical education and sports students

Authors

  • Mehmet Çağrı Çetin Mustafa Kemal University, School of Physical Education and Sports, Hatay
  • Engin Gezer Mustafa Kemal University, School of Physical Education and Sports, Hatay
  • Özer Yıldız Mustafa Kemal University, School of Physical Education and Sports, Hatay
  • Mehtap Yıldız Kırıkkale University, School of Physical Education and Sports, Kırıkkale

Keywords:

Aggression, basic psychological needs, physical education, sports, student

Abstract

The search has been made for fixing if it varies or not regarding some variations aggressive levels and basic psychological needs of physical education and sports school students; and for if it has any relationship between aggression tendency and basic psychological need of the students. The research has been made in the year of 2010-2011 Education and Teaching. The students chosen by random sampling method (female students: 138, male students: 233 and totally: 371) participated to the searching from those majoring in the University of Mustafa Kemal Physical Education and Sports School, Physical Education and Sports Teacher (female students: 33, male students: 86, totally: 119), Coaching Training (female students: 32, male students: 44, totally: 76), Sports Management (female students: 29, male students: 55; totally: 84), Recreation (female students: 44, male students: 48, totally: 92). In the research had been used as the data collection tools “Aggression inventory’’ developed by Kiper (1984), “Basic psychological needs scale’’ adapted to Turkish by Kesici et al (2003), developed by Deci and Ryan (2000) and Personal Information Form developed by the researchers. As a result of the research it has been defined that the aggression degree has meaningful differences for female students at the destructive aggression subdimension, the aggression degree does not have a meaningful difference between those doing sports and those not doing sports. It has been seen that the individual need of the student at the subdimension of his basic psychological needs has a high considerate level for male students, those doing active sports have a considerate level in comparison with those not doing it about being individual, need of competence relationship.

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2013-06-29

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Çetin, M. Çağrı, Gezer, E., Yıldız, Özer, & Yıldız, M. (2013). Investigation of the relationship between aggression levels and basic psychological needs school of physical education and sports students. Journal of Human Sciences, 10(1), 1738–1753. Retrieved from https://www.j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/2654

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