Investigation of Mental Well-Being and Aggression Level of Karate-Do Athletes

Abstract

This study is conducted to evaluate the aggression and mental well-being levels of karate-do athletes and determinate the effects of some variables. The study group consists of 103 male and 65 female participants who were chosen among the karate do athletes of 5 sports club which is in business in the city of Ankara. During the data collection, Aggression Inventory which has been designed as 30 question and three sub-tests by Kiper (1984), and Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS), which has been designed by Tennant et al. (2007) was translate to Turkish after the reliability and validity studies by Keldal (2015) made up of 14 questions and one dimension. Descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA and Tukey test were used in the analysis of the data. Internal consistency reliability is .91 for mental well-being and .80 for aggression scales in the study. When all the results are considered, it can be seen that the well-being level and aggression level of people doing karate-do are in high level, most of the participants shows passive aggression. And, it can also be seen that the mental there is a difference between well-being level and participants who have middle level of a belt. Agression level changes by style of the branch, participants who does kata more, have higher total aggression points and have more passive aggression levels.

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