Comparison of depression levels of elite wrestling and taekwondo athletes

The aim of this study was to compare depression levels of elite wrestling and taekwondo athletes. To the study, 130 elite wrestlers and 130 elite taekwondo athletes who were now competing in the league between Universities. “Beck Depression Inventory” was used as a tool for collecting data. According to the scale consists of 21 questions used to determine the severity of the depressive symptoms, the reliability and validity coefficient values was found to be 86. The statistical analysis of the data, the frequency distribution analysis and Independent t test was applied. As a result of test depression levels of elite wrestling and taekwondo athletes, the difference between groups was found to be statistically significant (p 0.05). In conclusion, elite wrestler were defined more depressive than elite taekwondo athletes, so both of branches needed to be psychiatric examination according to possibility situation of the inventory.