To determine the relationship between the types of personalities of male wrestlers and their way of coping with stress

The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between the types of personalities of male wrestlers and their way of coping with stress. As for gathering data, Scale of forms of coping with stress (SBTO) and Eysenck Personality Survey (Shortened Version) (EKA- GGK). Reliability and validity studies have been made by Karancı and his colleagues or Turkey. This study includes all the wrestlers who attended Turkey championship of adult wrestlers while the studies' sample is 227 male volunteer wrestlers. In the analysis of the data, SPSS 15 program was used. ?Kolmogorov-Smirnov? and ''Anova-Homogenety of variances? tests were applied in order to determine if the data are normally distributed. The tests results indicated that the data are normally distributed and homogeny. Person correlation and regression tests were also applied in order to identify the relationship between the personality types of male wrestlers and their way of coping with stress in analysing the data.It is found that there are significant differences (p<005). in between of these indicators: self confidence approach and Psychotic type of personality, optimistic approach and neurotic and psychotic type of personalities, desperate approach dimension and neurotic personality, social support seeker dimension and lying dimension. There is no significant difference found in other dimensions (p> 005).