Stress symptoms and copings in the coaches in istanbul amateur climate

The aim of this research is to determine how the stressors of the coaches working in the amateur cluster in Istanbul are manifesting stress and how to use them. The universe of the research is composed of trainers working in Istanbul amateur sports clubs. 120 coaches were proper sampled for the study. In the study, perceived stress level scale and stress coping styles scale were used as data collection tool. The data collected in the study were evaluated in the SPSS 16.0 package program. For the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics were calculated, mean and standard deviation values were calculated, Kolmogrov-Smirnov test was applied to find out whether the variables were parametric and the level of significance was taken as 0.05 in the test of hypotheses in the study. Independent t-test, one way ANOVA and one-way ANOVA were performed to determine the difference between the groups. As a result of the research, it was determined that as the stressors of coaches increased, stress coping methods increased, age and sex were effective on stress sources, and stress coping had higher stress symptoms of college graduates. Our research results show that as the level of stress perceived by coaches increases, the use of healthy coping styles that they cope with are also increasing.