Investigation of State and Trait Anxiety Levels of Paragliding Pilots According to Some Variables

The aim of this study is to examine the state and trait anxiety levels of paragliding pilots in terms of some variables. The study group consisted of 206 licensed paragliding pilots in Turkey. "State and Trait Anxiety Inventory" consisting of 20 questions and administered in two parts was applied to the volunteer participants. In addition to the inventories, a "Personal Information Form" was added to determine the demographic information of the pilots. Of the pilots, 35 were female (17%) and 171 were male (83%). Skewness, Kurtosis (normal distribution of the data) values and Levene's test (equality of variance) results were analyzed and it was decided that the data met the parametric test conditions. Accordingly, t-test and ANOVA tests were applied to evaluate the state and trait anxiety levels of the participants according to various demographic characteristics. In addition, the level of relationship between the scales was evaluated by Pearson correlation analysis. As a result, it was observed that there was a significant difference between the state and trait anxiety mean scores of pilots according to gender, certification level and family support variables. In addition, a significant difference was found between the mean state anxiety scores of pilots according to the variables of age, marital status and duration of interest in the branch.