Abstract:

The study aimed at studying the levels of exercise addiction of elite swimming athletes. Athletes who have been licensed to participate. The study’s work group consists of 82 women, 55 men and 137 elite athletes who are active in the Swimming Federation of Turkey. In the study, the "Personal Information Form" and the "Exercise Addiction Scale" developed by Iron, Hazar and Cicioğlu (2018) were used as a data collection tool. The study found a meaningful relationship between the age of athletes and the delay of individual-social needs and the low dimension of conflict in the negative direction at the middle level. When the difference between the swimming styles of the athletes involved and the levels of exercise addiction was studied, it was found that swimming on the back participants had higher levels of exercise addiction than swimming on the free and swimming on the shell participants. There is no significant difference between gender, sports age and the frequency of exercise and the lower dimensions of exercise dependency. The study found that elite swimming athletes’ levels of exercise addiction were included in the addict group.

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