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INVESTIGATION OF SPORTS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS COPING WITH STRESS LEVELS

This study, aims to examine the different variables in how the students in sports high school copes with stress. In this study, screening method has been used and 242 questionnaires were distributed to the participants by the number of students. Out of 204, 201 has been returned. Some of these questionnaires has been without valid reasons, such as incomplete questionnaires are set to leave. In total, 188 of the questionnaires has been found worthy of analysis. Accordingly, 188 participant’s information (% 68.6 Male, n=129, %31.4 Female, n=59) was taken into account. Data of this research has been developed by Personal Information Form and Folkman and Lazarus (1980), which was adopted to Turkish by Şahin ve Durak (1995) under the name of Stress Coping Styles Participant’s ways to cope with stress has been analyzed depending on their gender, age, income and sportive activities. In this research, a significant difference has been found between coping with stress and gender difference. Female participant’s ways of coping with stress has been found rather weaker, then to those of male participants. In contrast, there is no significant difference that is observed between income, physical fitness and age, in terms of coping with stress. Administration board of the school, teachers and the parents of the female students may contribute by education and planning, to female participant’s ways of coping with stress. The Online Journal of Recreation and Sport – October 2016 Volume 5, Issue 4 www.tojras.com Copyright