Introduction: Aggression as a personality disorder bothers the person and those around him. The desire for aggression in sports venues, as an agent is harmful to mental health. According to Store (1982) aggression is closely associated with individual personality traits. Undoubtedly, one of the main issues and key personality and the ultimate goal of human psychology. Due to human cognition and how education can be one of the most important questions knew that over the centuries in all fields of humanities have to answer it. Aggression and character is very important in sports. That being said, the sport is micro world of the larger society. Unfortunately, in today's world players violent behavior is one of the main topics in sports competition. The aim of this study was to investigate some psychological trends athletes. Therefore, in this study compares the personality and aggression among college athletes in university of Ataturk in Erzurum, Turkey.
Methods: The research method was descriptive and statistical population of this research consists of 180 professional athletes Interested in different sport branches in Ataturk University in Erzurum. To collect the information used NEO Personality Inventory-Short Form Costa and Kerry (1982), Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (1992) and demographic Inventory. These questionnaires were distributed among samples (Between players of 9 sports branch). Cranach’s alpha reliability was calculated by values vary total is .850 that the reliability is high. According to the non-normal data and to analyze the data Mann-Whitney test, Kruskal Wallis and Spearman correlation coefficient was used. All calculations with software spss19 significant level (p ≤ 0.05) done.
Results:According to results show that between personality traits of extroversion and accountability with physical aggression, verbal aggression, and hostility there is a significant negative correlation and with openness to experience and compatibility there is a significant positive correlation. Characteristics of aggression with accountability, there is a significant negative correlation between neuroticism and agreeableness and there is a significant positive correlation with extroversion (p<001).
Discussion: Due to the significance of this study can be said.Certain personality traits influence the presence or absence of aggressive behavior. Character provides means to predict the person will do in a particular situation. The research results by a lot of research in this field is consistent.