Abstract:

The aim of this study is to study the role of behavioral regulations and targeting in exercise in the prediction of the basic psychological needs of university students studying in the 2018-2019 educational year at Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University. The study also studied the relationship between the basic psychological needs, behavioral arrangements and target orientation in exercise with the level of physical activity. The study included 283 university students (Nerkek = 156; Xyaş = 20.64±3.58 and nkadın = 127; Xyaş = 19.65±4.10) voluntarily. The participants received a personal information form, "The Target Orientation Scale in the Non-Exercise", "The Scale of Behavioral Regulations in the Non-Exercise" and "The Scale of Basic Psychological Needs in the Non-Exercise" and "The International Physical Activity Survey (UFAA)". Data analysis used visual statistical analysis (mediate and standard deviation), hierarchical regression analysis and Pearson Moments Fragment Correlation analysis. When the findings of the study are studied, the hierarchical regression analysis results in the internal and internal orientation of the task and the need for competence and autonomy in the positive direction; the need for external regulation has predicted the competence in the negative direction. The need to be interrelated is predicted in a positive direction by the internal and intrinsic setting and the task and the ego direction. The levels of physical activity of the participants have been found to be positively associated with the internal and internal arrangement and the psychological needs of competence, autonomy and being associated. As a result, individuals who do exercise by enjoying and enjoying, and those who set goals when doing exercise satisfy the needs of competence, self-sufficiency and association when doing exercise; individuals who do exercise for external reasons such as health, physical appearance have reduced the needs of competence in exercise; individuals who do exercise by comparing themselves to others, and those who set goals very externally from their own goals have also been satisfied the need to be associated with exercise. Another outcome of the study is that individuals who do exercise by entertaining and internalizing and university students who satisfy the needs of competence, autonomy and connectivity in exercise have a more active lifestyle.

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