标题：Evaluation of strategies for managing stress among muay thai sportsmen participating in intervarsity sports competitions Üniversiteler arası spor müsabakalarına katılan muay thai sporcularının stres ile başa çıkma stratejilerinin değerlendirilmesi
摘要：Sports competition is one of most intense occasions where stress is felt quite intensely. Fierce competition environment, expectations, psychological pressure, will to win, and anxiety about backfire, will undermine sportive performance. The main aim of this research is to determine different strategies that various muay thai sportsmen participating in sports competition among universities use in coping with stress.In order to measure the stress coping strategies of athletes, stress coping style scales adapted to Turkish by Şahin and Durak (1995) developed by Folkman and Lazarus (1984) were used. Cronbach Alpha internal consistency method was used to calculate the reliability coefficient of the test, Reliability Score of the scale. 0.875 respectively.Working Group consists of a total of 101 athletes including 46 women and 55 men participating in muay thai intervarsity competition.According to George and Mallery (2010), the data are considered as showing normal distributions when the values of skewness and lowness are between 2 and -2, and the evaluation is done accordingly (George and Mallery, 2010).Parametrik methods were applied to the data that show normal distribution. Independent sample t test was used to compare two independent variables. One-way variance analysis ANOVA was used to compare multiple independent variables. Post hoch-scheffe tests were applied to find out which variables have significant differences among more than two independent variables. In addition, the descriptive statistical values of the data are also included in the study. As a conclusion; strategies for managing stress by sportsmen were evaluated in terms of age, sexuality and duration of sports. If sexuality variable is considered, it is found that female sportsmen score higher than male participants regarding managing their stress. Significant differences were observed as a result of evaluation regarding active planning, external assistance search, escape abstraction (Bio-Chemical) and acceptance-cognitive (restructuring) sexuality variation while comparing these variables (p0,05).
