Attitudes to sport and Aggressive behaviors: comparation between Handball against Basketball players

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Vítor Ferreira
Nuno Januário
Paulo Martins
Ana Ayala
Aida Gonçalves
Edgar Sousa
Ana Rita Machado

Abstract

The aim of the present research was analyze the aggressiveness and the sports attitude of handball and basketball players,


We used the Aggression Questionnaire (AQ) (by Buss and Perry, 1992, in the Portuguese adapted version by Cunha and Gonçalves, 2012), and the Sports Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) (de Lee, 1996, in the Portuguese version by Gonçalves, Silva, Chatzisarantis, Lee and Cruz, 2006).


Thirty-two athletes (21 male, 11female), 15 handball and 17 basketball players participated in the study.


The results shows that was not found significant differences in aggressiveness (considering the modalities and gender of the practitioners).The attitudes, was significantly differenced by gender namelly in  'Convention'. Some associations between aggressiveness and  attitudes factors were found.


Keywords:   Aggressiveness; physical and verbal aggression; rage; hostility; anti-sports

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Ferreira, V., Januário, N., Martins, P., Ayala, A., Gonçalves, A., Sousa, E., & Machado, A. R. (2018). Attitudes to sport and Aggressive behaviors: comparation between Handball against Basketball players. EduSer, 10(2), 18–34. https://doi.org/10.34620/eduser.v10i2.104
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