Abstract:

In this study, it was aimed to examine the relationship between emotional eating behaviors and social physical anxiety levels of individuals who are members of the sports center. In addition, the differences between emotional eating behaviors and social physical anxiety levels were tried to be determined in line with the personal information of the members. The participant group of the research consisted of individuals (n=183) who were members of private sports centers in Alanya. Of the members, 97 (53.0%) are female and 86 (47.0%) are male. In the study, the "Emotional Eating Scale" whose validity and reliability was studied by Arslantaş et al., (2019) and the "Social Physics Anxiety Inventory" whose validity and reliability studies were conducted by Ballı and Aşçı (2006) were used. Whether the data met the prerequisites of the parametric tests was decided by examining the Skewness and Kurtosis (normal distribution of the data) values, and in line with the information obtained, the relations between the parameters were evaluated with the Pearson correlation analysis and the differences were evaluated with the t-test and ANOVA analysis. As a result of the research, it was determined that there is a positive and significant relationship between emotional eating and social physical anxiety. In addition, it was observed that there was a significant difference in the social physical anxiety levels of the members according to their genders.

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