Common negative events and depression relations of junior karate sportsmen.

The basic aim of this paper was to examine the prediction of everyday negative events (unwilling unconscious thoughts, the sense of general self-efficiency, dealing with issues skills and perceived support of family, coach and team peers) and depression symptoms of junior karate sportsman. This research was conducted on the appropriate sample of 187 karate sportsman from Kolubara and Macva district (Serbia), being 14-16 years old. The applied measure instruments were Adolescent Perceived Events Scale, Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire, General Self-Efficacy Scale, Confrontation with Stressing Situation Questionnaire, Social Support Questionnaire, Children's Depression Rating Scale demonstrated satisfactory reliability. The data was processed using descriptive parameters, Pearson’s correlation coefficient and hierarchy regression analysis. Achieved results didn’t show that predictor variables (common automatic thoughts, the sense of general self-efficiency, confrontation strategies and perceived support of family, coach and team peers) are the cause of the common negative events and depression relations of karate sportsmen in the middle period of adolescence. On contrary, the results with the significance level (p < .05) have emphasized the fact that mutual relations of common negative events and depression of karate sportsmen, in this young category, can be explained using independent variables (unwilling unconscious negative thoughts, confrontation focused on feelings, as well as support of family, coach and team peers).