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Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine perceived exercise benefits and barriers in sports employees. A total of 200 sports employees who were working as physical training and sports teachers at private and public schools under the Ministry of National Education, trainers and sports training experts working at the youth services and sports directorate in Antalya Province voluntarily participated in the study. The Exercise Benefits/Barriers Scale developed by Sechrist, Walker and Pender (1987), Turkish validation and reliability tests of which were performed by Ortabağ (2009), was employed to determine the exercise benefits and barriers levels of the participants. Frequency analysis, significance test (t test) of the difference between two averages and ANOVA test were used to assess the data. As a result; it was found that there were significant differences between perceived exercise benefits and barriers and variables of marital status, adequate nutrition, exercising. It was identified that the single employees had higher level of perceived exercise benefits and barriers than the married employees. There was also a significant difference between perceived exercise benefits and adequate nutrition. On the other hand; there was not a significant difference between perceived exercise barriers and adequate nutrition. There was also a significant discrepancy between perceived exercise benefits and exercising. However; no significant difference was found between perceived exercise benefits and barriers and variables of age and sex. Also; average perceived exercise barriers were higher among female employees than male employees.

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