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Examining the relationship between athlete students’ stress fighting attitudes and sociodemographic characteristics

1 Trabzon University, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Trabzon, Turkiye
2 Trabzon University, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Trabzon, Turkiye

Abstract

In stress, individuals feel a threat. In fact, the essence of threat perception is obstacles, opportunities or desires for the individual. When the stress factor cannot be kept under control in normal situations, it is a concept that affects living beings holistically. The aim of the research is to examine the stress levels of student athletes who are the future of Turkish Society in sports, social, cultural and economic fields through certain variables and to reveal the relationship between them. The universe of the research consists of students studying at Trabzon University Faculty of Sports Sciences in the 2024-2025 academic year, while the sample consists of 153 active student athletes studying at Trabzon University Faculty of Sports Sciences determined by simple random sampling method. The personal information form created by the researcher and the ‘Stress Coping Attitudes Inventory’ were used as data collection tools. The study, which was approached from a quantitative perspective, used the relational screening method. Data were collected through a face-to-face survey using simple random sampling method. In the comparisons of the data, descriptive analyses were applied to determine the distribution of the participants according to demographic characteristics. In this context, the suitability of the parametric tests was tested and kurtosis and skewness values ​​were checked, and T test and One Way Analysis of Variance (One Way ANOVA) were applied. In the research results, it was determined that women had statistically significantly higher averages than men in the sub-dimension of avoidance-emotional action in gender. It was determined that there was no significant relationship between the students’ department, type of sport, going to psychiatric service, using psychiatric medication, having parents alive, income status, age and years of doing sports and their attitudes towards coping with stress.

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How to Cite

Bas, M., & Kabak, S. (2024). Examining the relationship between athlete students’ stress fighting attitudes and sociodemographic characteristics. Journal of ROL Sport Sciences, 5(4), 610–628. https://doi.org/10.70736/jrolss.484

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