The Relevance of Wrestlers’ Assertiveness with Their Individual Success

Subjects has been chosen from wrestlers, have the right to take part in Turkey Wrestling Championship in 2006-2007 season, deal with the wrestling sport in various cities and clubs in Turkey. Subjects consist of total 213 wrestlers whose age range from 17 to 40 and participated in Turkey Wrestling championship, and these wrestlers include 169 free-styles and Greco-Roman style male wrestlers and 44 free-style female wrestlers. It has been aimed in this study to analyze assertiveness level of elite male and female wrestlers’ effect on their individual success. Firstly, information related to the aim of the survey has been given systematically by scanning literature. Thus, a theoretical framework about the topic has been established. Secondly, personal identification form created by the researcher, results ruler of athlete and assertiveness inventory developed by Rathus, adapted into Turkish by Voltan, applied on the male and female wrestlers randomly in order to achieve the object of this study. In the statistical analysis of data obtained from the research was used descriptive statistics One Way ANOVA and test t, besides Tukey test was used to determine the differences between the groups. As a result of statistical analyzes, Level of Assertiveness has been observed at a higher level in those wrestlers, who wrestles in greko-romen style, who are female, and have liberal families, than those wrestlers who wrestles in free-style, who are male, and have protective parents. As a result, it has been determined that high levels of assertiveness sports have been more successful than the others.