Comparing Aggression Between Individual Athletes (Collision And Non- Collision) And Non Athletes

One of its main controversial that in sport psychology is to exercise and doing sporting activities to reduce aggression. As a result, the aim of the present study is to compare the aggression among athletes of various disciplines including collision individuals, non-collision individuals and nonathletes. The design of the study is descriptive and of scientific-comparative kind. In doing it so, 120 person of 15 and 18 years old were selected randomly from the male athletes and non-athletes in Yazd. The demographic-aggressive questionnaire of Bass and Perry (1992) was employed for the purpose of this study. For data analysis, descriptive statistics and inferential tests Shapiro-wilk and one-way ANOVA was used. The results showed that non-athletes were significantly more aggressive compared to individual sport athletes (collision and non-collision) (p<0.05). Also there is no significant difference in terms of aggression between athletes of the collision individual sports and those of noncollision individual sports (p>0.05). This research shows that participating in sports and sports activities could be a solution to decrease aggression among people. But there is no difference in the type of sport to reduce aggression.