Abstract:

Exercise addiction has recently become quite an interesting issue. Researchers have developed various tools for the purpose of investigating the negative effects of intense and excessive exercises on individuals. It should be recognized that there can be negative effects of exercise as well as positive effects. One of them is the exercise addiction, which can also be defined as a type of addiction. This study was conducted for the purpose of identifying exercise addiction levels of sports science students in terms of different variables in the sample of Kahramanmaras province. The survey method was used in the research as study pattern. The sample consisted of a total of 338 university students, including 191 male and 147 female students, who study at Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Faculty of Sport Sciences. In this study, the data were collected using the “Exercise Addiction Scale” (EAS). The research results show that exercise addiction of participants differs according to age, gender, grade level, department, number of weekly exercise (day), sport branches, sharing exercise status on social media, economic status, budget of exercise variables (p<0.05).

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