Abstract :
ABSTRACT:The purpose of this study is to determine the style of coping with stress of man athletes and to compare the style of coping with stress in socio demographic respect. The sample of the study includes a total of 350 young athletes in the branches of boxing, freestyle wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestling, taekwondo and weightlifting, participated in Turkey Youth Champions in 2011. In this study,‘stress coping style inventory developed by Folkman and Lazarus is used in order to collect data. SPSS 15 package software was used for the data analysis. The test of Kolmogorov-Smirnov to determine whether the data had a normal distribution , the test of Levene was applied to determine the homogeneity of variances and it was determined that the datas had an homogeneous and normal distribution. descriptive statistictics, to determine the differences between more than two variants and the relationship between the variants one way analysis of variance tukey test were applied in data analysis. At the end of the data analysis there is statistically meaningful differences between optimist approach dimension and sport age variant (p < 0,05).
