Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to assess the association of aggression and Injury of field event
athletes: in case of some selected Oromia special zone surrounding Finfinnee athletics clubs.
The study area was Burayu, Sebeta and Legaxafo athletics clubs which were found in Oromia
special Zone Surrounding Finfinne and this were selected using purposive sampling technique.
The researcher was used cross sectional research design. The total population from those clubs
were forty four athletes (N=44), and 6 coaches, of which were athletes sampled (n =44) was
determined by census sampling technique. The Instruments prepared for data collection were
questionnaires for athletes (n=44) and interview for coaches (n=6). The collected data were
analyzed by descriptive statistics including frequency and percentage and Pearson correlation
analysis was used to analysis the relationship between aggression level and injury of athletes
using SPSS v20. The descriptive results shows that the aggression level of athletes were higher
so as injuries too and Pearson correlation result also indicates that there is no significant value
between the aggression level and reported injuries. Results of the analysis between aggression
and injury of athletes are 0.50 >0.05 with anger and 0.694 >0.05 with aggressiveness at 95%
confidence level or the relationship between aggression and injury is insignificant in general.
The finding of the study indicates that even though there were higher reported number of
athletes’ aggression and injuries there was no association between them specifically on some
selected field event athletes of Oromia special zone surrounding Finfinne athletics clubs.
Therefore, the researcher recommended that the means of minimizing and preventing aggression
and injuries should be introduced, for further testing of an association between variables other
researchers should conduct in-depth studies involving higher number of participants samples
and by looking into variety of possible factors.
