Investig
Investigation
and Comparison of Aggression in Olympic and Non-Olympic Athletes of Sport
Fields
Mohammad Hassan Boostani 1*, Mohammad Ali Boostani 2, Ali Mohammad
Rezaei 3, Mohammad Ali Kohanpour 4
1, 2 Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan
Branch - Young Researchers Club, Iran; 3 Department
of psychology, faculty of psychology, Islamic Azad University, Arsanjan Branch,
Fars, Iran; 4 Departmentof Exercise
Physiology, faculty of physical education and sports sciences, Islamic Azad
University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran. Corresponding author; Email: [email protected]
Abstract: Many of sport psychological researchers consider
aggression and violence as a serious problem in sport especially contact fields
that follow annually a lot of privation and harms for athletes and
responsibles. In the some direction this research do with the aim of
investigation of aggression situation in Olympic athletes of contactable sport
fields and non-Olympic, compare these fields with each other and compare with
non-athletes. 96 number of elite athletes
of different sport fields, taekwondo, judo, wrestling, boxing (as an athlete’s
of Olympic sport fields), karate, wu shu, kickboxing and kung fu (as an
athlete’s of non-Olympic sport fields) with having at least international place
in his field, along with 96 non-athletes take part in this research. Findings of research shows significant
difference in different components of aggression among research groups
(p<0.001). Significant difference was seen among Olympic athletes in
contactable sport fields and non-Olympic and also non-athletes, generally from
an aggression point, and aggression components. Research Findings of research shows
that Olympic athletes in sport fields has less aggression from non-Olympic
athletes in sport fields, that this important shows great effects of Olympic
movement purposes in sports and moral, mental and psychological characteristics
of elite athletes of Olympic sport fields. Just
as important purposes of Olympic movement, is promoting and developing moral
and physical characteristics of individuals and education of youth through
sport, according to results of this research and same researches find that
Olympic games is something higher than holding a number of competitions every
four years in part of a world .In fact, in depth of it, hidden moral, basic
aims and education of Olympic movement and philosophy in international level.
[Boostani MH, Boostani MA, Rezaei AM, Kohanpour MA. Investigation
and Comparison of Aggression in Olympic and Non-Olympic Athletes of Sport
Fields. J Am Sci 2012;8(10):171-174]. (ISSN: 1545-1003).http://www.jofamericanscience.org. 25
Keywords: Aggression; Olympic games; Olympic movement;
Sport psychology; Violence Full Text 25
