SPORCULARDA ŞİDDET EĞİLİMİ: TAEKWONDO SPORCULARI ÜZERİNDE BİR ARAŞTIRMA. (Turkish)

Introduction and Aim: Violence in sports undermines society's perception that sports are peaceful. For this reason, it is important to investigate the factors that will trigger the violent tendencies of the athletes, and lead them to aggression. This study aims to investigate the effects of the conditions young taekwondo athletes encounter in their natural and social environment as well as sports fields. Method: Participants of this study include 331 athletes between the ages of 15 and 18, who attended the 2018 Taekwondo Championship of Turkey in various categories. The data collection tool used in the research is the Violence Tendency Scale, developed by Göka, Bayat, and Türkçapar (1998) as a part of their study titled Violence in the Family and Social Settings. Findings: The research, we concluded that the violence tendency of the athletes, who spend their free time watching television or playing computer games with contents such as war and strategy, and the athletes who stated that their coach punished them as a result of their failure in the past are at a higher level. Results: The results of the study show that violent punishments after failure and violent computer games (field of application) have a significant effect on the tendency of violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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