Determining the Level of Aggressive Behavior and its Relationship to Age and Sex in Players of Karate do Sport (14-16) Years in Algeria: Complementary Pilot study

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the level of aggressive behavior among players sport of karate de type of self-defense in the age group (14-16 years). Well aimed only to identify the impact of the variables of gender, age, aggressive behavior. Descriptive approach design method was used to achieve aims of present study, terms of study sample consisted of 110 players male and female aged 14-16 years were chosen randomly from the population of the study who were practitioners of all the players and the clubs officially registered in the state of Mustaganem specialized in karate du sport. To achieve the objectives of the study was used form consists of two parts, the first included important and general information regarding participants, the second part included a measure of sport aggression prepared by Mohammad Hassan Allawi to measure athletes aggression which consists of 24 paragraphs in which the player has to answer questionnaire phrases according to questionnaire included five staging (always, often, sometimes, rarely, never) according to the rules of the application of the questionnaire. We've been sure of the stability of the questionnaire through extraction coefficient of internal consistency using the equation Cronbach's alpha where the reliability coefficient (0.74). In addition, researchers made sure validity of questionnaire through discriminatory validity as well as results of the study sample were ordered in ascending order and take 25% a high level set, and 25% low level set. Study concluded that results of present study showed statistically significant differences in the variables of age, gender , where it was the level of aggressive behavior when players younger (14 years) is higher than the aggressive behavior at the level of aggressive behavior when older players (15-16 years). In addition, the results proved that there were no statistically significant differences in the level of aggressive behavior due to the variable sex. However, researchers recommended the need to include individual sports, especially in the curriculum and the lessons of physical education and sports in the educational institutions of various stages of the primary to the university with a focus on studies and research in this area using different questionnaires and multiple.

Keywords: Aggressive behavior, sport of karate, self-defense, questionnaire.