The Aggression Level of Athletes in Adama Youth Athletics Project

Abstract

Aggression is physical or verbal behaviour, it is not an attitude or emotion, and it involves harm or injury. The aim of this study was to assess the athlete’s aggression level of Adama youth athletics project. The population of the study consists of All Adama youth athletics project; the sample group consists of 52 athletes and 3 coaches. Totally there are 55 sampling, 32 male and 23 female. ANOVA one-way variance was used to analysis the connection between more than one variable. Gender differences in aggression have been found in virtually every culture that has been studied. Males were found to be more physically and angers aggressive than females, but females used more indirect aggression engaged in verbal aggression and hostility. The result indicates that aggressions level highly depends on age groups difference and educational level of athletes in Adama youth athletics project. As a result, there is a statistical significant age group(14,15,16,17and 18) difference on physical aggression(2,49) p= 0.001 and verbal (F(2,49) p=0.041 aggression, but there is no statistical age group difference on anger behaviour(2,49) p=.162 and, hostility(2,49) p=.337. This indicates physical and verbal aggressions highly depend on age groups difference. Educational level is a statistical significant difference on physical aggression, but there is no statistical significance on verbal aggression, anger behaviour, and, hostility. This indicates physical aggressions highly depend on educational status. The factors like; physical aggression p=0.011, verbal aggression p=0.000, Anger p=0.000 and Hostility p=0.000 are statistically significant on the athlete’s aggression level in the case of Adama youth athletics project.