TÜRKİYE GENÇ GÜREŞ MİLLİ TAKIMI SPORCULARININ ÖFKE DÜZEYLERİ İLE EMPATİK EĞİLİMLERİ ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİNİN BELİRLENMESİ

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the anger level and emphatic concern of young wrestlers and determine the relationship between anger expression and empathic dispositions of Turkish young national wrestling team players. The study was conducted in 46 wrestlers from Turkish young national wrestling team whose ages differed from 17 to 20 (19.0 ± 0.82). The Interpersonal Reactivity Index: IRI which was developed by Davis (1980) and translated into Turkish by Engeler (2005) and the Anger Expression Inventory which was developed by Spielberger (1988) and translated into Turkish by Ozer (1994) have been used for collecting data. Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk tests were employed to test whether or not scores obtained from the inventory followed a normal distribution before the statistical analyses of the data were initiated and it was found out that observation values did not follow a normal distribution. Since there is not a normal distribution of the data non-parametric correlation test Spearman Correlation was performed. Statistical analyses of the data obtained were performed using Portable IBM SPSS Statistics v19 program. Minimum and maximum values of the mean scores obtained from the Interpersonal Reactivity Index and Anger Expression Inventory subscales were presented in tables. The analysis showed that there is a significant relationship (p<0.05) between anger expression and empathic dispositions of Turkish young national wrestling team players. This situation was observed frequently athletes who are dealing with combat sports. This result is consistent with the literature. Key words: Anger Expression, Empathic Dispositions, Wrestlers