A Study on The Aggression Levels Of Athletes Involved in E-Sports nnd Traditional Sports

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the aggression levels of traditional athletes and e-sportsmen. For this purpose, 185 licensed e-sportsmen and 245 licensed Football, Basketball and Volleyball athletes voluntarily participated in the study. In line with the research purpose, quantitative research; relational screening method and causal comparison method were utilised. As a data collection method, survey technique was applied and online and face-to-face data were collected on a voluntary basis. "Personal Information Form" and "Aggression and Anger Scale in Sport" were applied to the participants. The dependent variable of the study was aggression and the independent variables were gender, age, years of doing sport and sport branch. SPSS 25 package programme was used to analyse the data obtained. T-test and Anova analyses were used to analyse the data. The difference between the variables was interpreted based on p.0,05 significance level. As a result of the statistical analyses conducted in the study, it was seen that male athletes included in the study had higher anger levels than female athletes regardless of the branch. According to another result, there was no significant difference in the sub-dimensions of aggression levels according to the year of sport. It was statistically determined that football players showed more aggressive behaviours than E-Sports and Volleyball players.