@article{2015,title={INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TYPES OF PERSONALITIES AND WAY OF COPING WITH STRESS OF ELITE ATHLETE},abstractNode={The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between the types of personalities of Elite Athlete and their way of coping with stress. As for gathering data, Scale of forms of coping with stress (SBTO) and Eysenck Personality Survey (Shortened Version) (EKA- GGK). Reliability and validity studies have been made by Karancı and his colleagues or Turkey. the studies' sample is 50 wrestlers, 45 weight lifting and 37 boxing. In the analysis of the data, SPSS 20 program was used. “Kolmogorov-Smirnov” and ''Anova-Homogenety of variances” tests were applied in order to determine if the data are normally distributed. The tests results indicated that the data are normally distributed and homogeny. Person correlation were also applied in order to identify the relationship between the personality types of male wrestlers and their way of coping with stress in analysing the data. It is found that there was correlation, in between of these indicators: self confidence approach and Psychotic type of personality, optimistic approach and neurotic and psychotic type of personalities, desperate approach dimension and neurotic personality.},author={Ünsal TAZEGÜL},year={2015},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}