Combat sports athletes attitude towards aggression and forms of its expression

The object of research – attitudes toward aggression and forms of its expression among youth and adult age groups representatives of the combat sports. The aim – to reveal attitudes toward aggression and forms of its expression among youth and adult age groups combat sports representatives. The tasks were: First to investigate attitudes towards aggression of adult and youth combat sports representatives. Second to reveal forms of expression of aggression among adult and youth age groups combat sports representatives. The scientific problem: is one of the sporting activities of social phenomena, where a history of aggressive action is particularly emphasized duel sport athlete aggression (Šukys, 2004, Ruibytė, 2004, Stephens, 2000; Kavussanu, Boardley, 2009 Šukys, 2005). Therefore, the problem was posed the question of how youth and adults, age groups and representatives of sports duel approach to aggression and what are its forms of expression. Hypothesis: it is likely that the representatives of adult group have more favorable attitudes toward aggression than the young athletes. The targeted nature of the explanatory hypothesis based on scientific studies, according to which older athletes often use aggressive actions (Loughead & Leith, 2001). The participants were 96 combat sports athletes. Conclusions: 1. Attitudes towards aggression of combat sports representatives of youth and adult age groups differed significantly (p <0.05): youth age group attitudes towards aggression were more negative than adults. 2. Analysis of forms of expression of aggression among adults and youth groups combat sport showed that level of annoyance of adults athletes was higher (p