ANALYSIS OF AGGRESSION AND PERSONALITY TRAITS IN VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

This study was conducted in order to evaluate personality traits and aggression of volleyball players in the second league, and to measure how a contact-free sports might cause change in personality subscales and to measure the level of aggression. The study universe contains second league volleyball players playing in Intercollegiate Group Championship in 20192020 season. The research sample was formed by using random sampling method. The sample of the study is composed of 120 volleyball players in total, 59 being male, and 61 being female. A questionnaire form consisting of three sections was used in the data collection of the present study. Items developed by the researcher regarding the demographic characteristics were used in the first section while "the aggression questionnaire" developed by Buss and Perry and translated into Turkish by Demirta. 2012 as well as conducting a reliability study was used in the second section. In the third section, "the personality scale" developed by Costa and McRae and adapted into Turkish by Gulgoz (2005) by conducting a reliability study was used. The questionnaire was applied as a 5-point Likert scale. It was observed in the study that total mean scores of verbal aggression, anger, hostility, and aggression in participants were medium, that mean scores of physical aggression were low-level whereas mean scores of neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, and conscientiousness were high. Moreover, it was seen that there was a statistically significant, negative, low-level correlation relationship between anger and agreeableness subscales, which were aggression and personality subscales.

Journal

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIFE SCIENCE AND PHARMA RESEARCH

Year

2021

Volume

11

Pages

239-244

ISSN

2250-0480

WoS UID

WOS:000884778900045