Analysis on Overcoming Level of Stress of Athletes Joined in Adults Taekwondo National Team Eliminations in Terms of Gender Factor

Aim of the study is to determine level of coping with stress of athletes joined in Adults Taekwondo National Team eliminations. Sample group of the research was consisted of elite 56 female, and 118 male athletes joined in the eliminations in Alanya, Antalya. Average age of females was 20, 48, males 'was 21.00. A-five-point coping with Stress Scale of Likert type developed by A.Sibel Türküm (1999) was used to identify the level of the athletes’ stress. No outstanding differences were found between the genders (p=0,987). However, in terms of the factor to cope with stress, meaningful difference was found between groups (p=0,031). Taking into consideration this fact, mean of females was found pretty higher than the males.