Abstract

This research aims at revealing whether or not footballers’ anger expression styles show an alteration in terms of different variables. The descriptive method which is one of the quantitative research methods was adopted as the research model. Research group consists of 154 footballers who play in 8 teams from 12 teams in fifth-group in the regional amateur league. “Personal Information Form” which was developed by researcher in order to determine personal characteristic of the footballers and “The State-Trait Anger Scale (STAS)”, were used as data collection tools. Unique sample Kolmogorov Smirnov Test was used in order to see whether measurements were proper for normal dispersion. T-test and Anova (one way variance analysis) were used to analyze and interpret the data as it was a normal dispersion and tukey test was used in order to determine the differences among groups and meaningfulness was determined as P>0.05. SPSS (Statistical package for social sciences) packet programme was used to evaluate the data and find the calculated values. It can be said that the trait anger point average of the footballers who participated in the research with (Mean=21.43), internalized anger point average (Mean=17.18), sub dimension of anger locution, and externalized anger point average (Mean=17,25) were low, but their controlled anger point average was mid-level with (Ort.=20.45). Meaningful difference was found in terms of personal characteristic on trait anger and anger types of participants’ education status, Begining Age of the Sports, Years of the playing football and Place of Residence variables (P<0.05), whereas significant difference was not found on age, marital status, teams, father’s job status, mother’s job status, How many teams he played on and position at which they play variables (P>0.05).

Key words: Anger, sports, football.