LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Agresija; Sportuojantys ir nesportuojantys mokiniai; Sportuojantys ir nesportuojantys mokiniai, agresija; Aggression; Athletes and non-athletes students, aggression; Thletes and non-athletes students.
ENRecently scientists pay more and more attention to the question concerning student’s aggression. Horever, there is still a lack of scientific studies investigating this problem. The article raises two presumptions: athlete’s attitude towards aggression is more favourable than non-athletes attitude. Forms of display of aggression are more expressed by athletes than by non-athletes. During the research the following methods were applied: A. Asinger questionnaire which helped to reveal students attitude towards aggression, and A. Buss/A. Durkee questionnaire which helped to estimate the forms of display of aggression: physical, verbal, indirect aggression, irritation, negativism, display of offence, suspiciousness and feeling of fault. In order to examine scientific hypotheses χ2(chisquare) test and Student t-test were applied. The study was carried out in three Kaunas gymnasiums. 224 students aged 15 to 16 of those schools participated is the study and they were divided into two groups: athletes and non-athletes. The first group consisted of students who not only attended physical education lessons, but also sport schools and clubs. The second group consisted of students who attended only physical education lessons at school. 107 athletes’ students and 117 non-athletes students (86 girls and 141 boys) participated in the study. Hypothesis raised during the investigation was as follows: athletes students’ attitude towards aggression is more favourable than of those non-athletes students was not assured. With the help of A. Asinger questionnaire it was revealed that non-athletes students had statistically more favourable (p<0,05) attitude towards aggression than forms of display of aggression are more expressed by athletes than by nonathletes.Applying A. Buss/A. Durkee questionnaire it was estimated that forms of aggression as physical aggression (p<0,05), indirect aggression (p<0,05), verbal aggression (p<0,05), feeling of fault (p<0,05) are statistically reliably more characteristic to athletes than to non-athletes while such forms of aggression as negativism (p<0,05) and display of offence (p<0,05) are more characteristic to non-athletes. [From the publication]