EXAMINATION OF AGGRESSION LEVELS OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND OTHER BRANCH TEACHERS

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the aggression levels of physical education and other branch
teachers. The study group of the research consists of 230 teachers who voluntarily participated in
the online survey among the physical education and other branch teachers working in the city center
of Yozgat in the 2022-2023 academic year. As a data collection tool in the research, ''demographic
information form (Gender, Age, Level, Institution type, Branch, Perceived monthly income level,
Doing sports with license before, Type of license, Did you choose your profession voluntarily,
What kind of personality do you see yourself as'' and the 'Buss-Perry Aggression Scale', the
reliability and validity of which was studied in Turkish by Madran (2012), was used to determine
the aggression levels of the participants. The data were transferred to the SPSS 20.0 package
program for statistical analysis. Before starting the analysis, skewness and kurtosis values were
examined in order to examine whether the data showed a normal distribution. It was determined that
the skewness and kurtosis values of the scale were between 1.159 and 1.137 and showed a normal
distribution. Frequency analysis, percentage analysis, t test, Anova analysis were used to analyze
the data. As a result of the analyzes carried out; it was determined that the participants exhibited the
most verbal aggression (X̄=2.48), and the aggression levels were generally low (X̄top= 2.21).
Statistically significant differences were found between the aggression levels of the participants
according to gender, branch, previously licensed sports status, willingness to do the job and
personality variables (p<0.05). No significant differences were found according to the variables of
age, level, institution, perceived income level and license type (p>0.05).