Aggression in the sporting: catharsis and social support

Mohd. Shariff Abd. Rahim, Javed Saeed, Salimin Norkhalid, Abdul Majid Norliza,

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The existing research was envisioned to explore the differences of aggression and assertion with extents of sport catharsis among student athletes. Positive associations through literature have been proved as one of the amount of social support to predict the athletic catharsis in sport. The current research was planned to reimburse the inadequacies in the view of literature to compare female and male impact, and contact sport athlete through life aggression and life assertion, sport hostility aggression and sport instrumental aggression. The Bredemeier Athlete Aggression Inventory (BAAGI-S), Rathus Assertiveness Schedule (RAS), and Social Support Questionaire (PSS-Q) were employed for data collection of female and male players of soccer, hockey, and rugby. It was revealed that a male student athlete in sport hostility and life aggression would expand as a purpose of sport catharsis level. Likewise, female student athlete life assertion was regressed to enhance the extent of sport contact. Result of the study indicated that sport catharsis, life assertion, and total life aggression did not differ between dissimilar sport catharsis and life aggression. It is apparent that the occurrence of aggression in both gender domain is not dissipating and may even be increasing as we enter a new millennium world of sport.

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