The effect of kick-box on violence tendency of the high school students

Kick Boxing sport is a sport that contains Far East Asian sports such as taekwondo-karate and judo. The basic philosophy of these sports is that the person’s selfaware, control and energy and mind are combined manage the person. There are misconceptions that this sport encourages violence. This research aims to examine the effect on violence tendency of kick-box by comparing violent tendencies between kick-boxer and non-kick-boxer High School students. A total of 103 kick-boxing athletes, 18 female and 85 male licensed in Konya, were included in the research. In addition, 150 high school students in Konya were selected by random sample method, and 136 students, 24 girls and 112 boys student, were included in the study. It was noted that when selecting the sample, equal number of students from different high school types were selected. Stratified sampling method was used in the selection of the sample. The "Tendency of Violence Tendency Scale" was used for high school students that Yildirim and Haskan developed. Analysis of data has been done with SPSS and LISREL data analysis program. "Independent Sampling t-Test" was applied for examine the difference between the groups was determined. Confirmatory Factor Analysis has been used for the validity of your scale in this research. The CFA results show that the compliance indices are within acceptable limits, so the scale used is valid for the study. Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficient of .66 is located, it has revealed that the scale is a reliable instrument for this research. As a result of the research, it was found to be less than the tendency to violence in the kick-boxer secondary school students according to the non kick-boxer secondary school students. While the tendency of violence between boys and girls who did kick-boxing did change, boys who did not kick-box were found to be more violent than girls.