The Relationship between Aggression and Sportsmanship in Male Basketball Players: Observational Study
Description
Background: Basketball is a team sport which requires skills which includes shooting, offensive rebounding, passing and dribbling. Aggression is a vital trail of aggressive sports activities, and its appearance is inevitable in some sports. In games, aggression is a function that can have many negative as well as fantastic effects on performance. Contact game players had higher levels of aggression, whereas noncontact game players had lower levels of aggression. Sportsmanship is the aspiration or ethos that a sport or hobby could be enjoyed for its own sake. Previous studies show that the aggressive stages of athlete will decrease as their stage of sportsmanship behaviour increases. Aim: The purpose of this study was to find the relationship between aggression and sportsmanship in male basketball players. Materials and methods: An observational study was conducted on 74 male basketball players by using purposive sampling. 74 male basketball players, between the age group of 18-25 with experience of 2 years or more were recruited in the study. Buss Perry aggression Questionnaire and the Multidimensional Sportsmanship Orientation Scale were used to assess aggression and sportsmanship, respectively. Results and Discussion: Spearman’s correlation coefficient test was used to check the relation of aggression and sportsmanship. The mean and standard demographic data are age group [(20.0541±1.85)(in years)], height [(172.308±8.429)(in cm)] , weight [(61.41±7.93)(in kg)], and body mass index [(20.860±2.352)(in kg\m2 ). The result indicates inverse correlation between aggression and sportsmanship (r = -.266, p<0.02.). The result shows that the correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed). Conclusion: The present study concluded that aggression and sportsmanship show negative relationship with each other.