Research of aggressive states of student athlete participating inter high school competitions (the case of Rize city)

The research aims to search for aggressive states of student athletes participating inter high school competitions and to determine the relationship with sport and aggressiveness in many aspects as well. 490 student athletes from 26 high schools participating inter high school competitions in the academic year 2013-2014 in Rize were chosen regarding random cluster sampling method. Personal Information Form developed by the researcher and Aggressiveness Inventory developed by İpek İlter (Kiper) were used as data collection tools. Regarding the distribution of data, primarily normality test (Kolmogorow-Smirnov D test) was applied. Distribution of the student athletes and their percentages were determined through descriptive statistics. In comparing aggressiveness states according to variables such as gender, type of school and sport of student athletes, Independent Sample T Test was applied at α=0.05 significance level. In comparing aggressiveness states according to variables such as gender, type of school and sport of student athletes, Independent Sample T Test was applied at α=0.05 significance level. In comparing aggressiveness states according to age variable (4 groups), One Way Anova was applied at α=0.05 significance level. Tukey HSD, a second-level test, was used for differences between groups found significant. Microsoft Excel 2003 was used to input data into computer and to draw graph; SPSS 20.0 was used to analyse data. As a result of analyses according to variables such as age, gender, type of school and sport of student athletes, significant differences were detected at all sub-dimension aggressiveness scores except assertiveness. Finally, in puberty the older student athletes get, the more their aggressiveness level is; males are more aggressive than females; student athletes of vocational high school are more aggressive than those of general high school; and lastly student athletes doing team sports, are more aggressive than those doing individual sports. Key words: High school, Student athletes, Puberty, Aggressiveness, Sports