Abstract:

The purpose of this research; The aim of this study is to examine the exercise addiction of women who regularly attend private gyms. Survey model, one of the quantitative research designs, was used in the research. The universe of the research is female participants who are members of private gyms operating in Trabzon in 2021-2022 and continue regularly; The sample consists of a total of 134 female participants who agreed to participate in the study voluntarily and were determined by the random method. Personal information form and exercise addiction scale (EBÖ) developed by Hausenblas and Downs (2002) and adapted in Turkish by Yeltepe and İkizler (2007) were used to collect research data. SPSS 24.00 package program was used in the analysis of the data. As for the statistical process; Independent-Samples t-Test for paired comparisons and One-Way ANOVA test was used for multiple comparisons, and Post-Hoc (Gabriel, Games-Howell) analysis was used to determine the source of the difference when the difference was significant. According to the results of the analysis; A significant difference was found between the participants' age, weekly exercise frequency, daily exercise duration, and exercise addiction attitude variables and the means of exercise dependence scale-tolerance criteria (p<0.05).

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