Abstract:

The study aimed at studying the levels of exercise addiction of top athletes. The study was conducted on top athletes in a total of 160 (35 women, 125 men) national teams, including 66 teams (basketball, American football) and 94 individual (athletics, competition). The study used the “Personal Information Form” and the “Exercise Addiction Scale” (EBA). The research model is an imaging scan model from quantum research methods. In the study, the pearson correlation ratio, Mann Whitney U test, took advantage of the Krusal-Wallis test. According to the analysis, there was no statistically meaningful relationship between the EBA and the age variation of participants. Branch has not identified a statistically meaningful difference between the gender material income variables and the sub-dimensions of the EEA. Depending on the sports age of the participants; a significant relationship has been established at a low level in the positive direction in the lower dimension of 'Excessive Focus and Emotional Change'. As a result; high-level athletes were found to be included in the 'dependent' group, taking into account the sports age, branch, gender, material income variables and the scale of exercise dependency and the subdimensions of the total score average. For this reason, it is believed that the performance of athletes who perform regularly and professionally over the years in the right proportion with their successes, motivating individuals to do more exercise, may prevent them from realizing that the exercise they have done can create addiction.

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