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Abstract: Many people nowadays believe that combat sports, and especially boxing, promote violence and aggressiveness. The mass media have played a major role in shaping the perception that the practice of martial arts in fact, attracts violent individuals or promotes aggressiveness especially in young people. Due to the conflicting nature of these kinds of sports, there have always been conflicting views regarding their influence on young people 's behavior. The question is whether and to what extent combat sports can affect the rate of aggression among the young. The purpose of the present research is to evaluate the anger level as an element of aggression among boxing athletes and other sportsmen. The results did not indicate any difference between boxers and other sports athletes in terms of aggressiveness. Yet, research suggests there's significant deviation with regards to stress predisposition, which then correlates with some parts of aggressiveness.
Key words: boxing, violence, rate of aggression, level of education, others sports athlete.
1.Introduction
Participation in martial arts: Judo, Karate, Taekwondo, Tai boxing, Kickboxing and boxing, has a worldwide acceptance. For example, in France, Canada, Finland, Australia and Belgium martial arts are on the list of ten most popular sports among children and teenagers (according to [1], Nederland's Hartstichting NOC·NSF, 2007; [17], [21], [23], Culture, Tourism and the Centre for Education Statistics, 2008). In fact, martial arts are classified among the ten most popular sports [3] according to Ministere de la jeunesse des sports et de la vie associative, 2002).
Particularly, in the past years in Boxing there has been a growing increase in participation of young people. According to the evidence being presented by the World International Boxing Association (AIBA), there are twelve million registered boxers, one million boxing clubs and one million and a half boxing trainers at the global level [24]
Boxing has been many times at the forefront of controversy and scientific discussion. Not few are the medical scientists who have requested a ban on Boxing from youth sports under the age of sixteen for philosophical, medical and moral reasons (American Academy of Pediatrics, 1997 & [12]). Pearn 1998, for example, proposed that "there is no place in contemporary society for a youth sport which has, as its primary goal, the infliction of...