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The aim of this study is to investigate the urge to be muscular in terms of frequency of participation in sports and age group. Relational screening model was used in this study. The study group of the research consists of 82 people who do sports in a private sport center in Istanbul. 72% of the athletes participating in the research are male athletes and 28% are female athletes. In this research, personal information form and drive for muscularity scale was used. In the statistical analyzes of research IBM SPSS 25 program was used. Besides of the descriptive statistical methods, the distribution of the data was evaluated with the Shapiro-Wilk Test. Mann-Whitney U test was used for the comparison of the quantitative data between two groups that did not show normal distribution. The Kruskal Wallis test was used to compare the quantitative data with three or more groups that did not show normal distribution. The level of significance was set as p<0.05 level. As a result, significant differences were found in the relationship between the urge to be muscular and the frequency of participation in sports with gender and age group variables.

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