Abstract:

The aim of the study was to compare the body satisfaction level of athletes engaged in bodybuilding in elite level. The sample of the study was selected by 207 bodybuilding athletes in elite level who voluntarily agreed to participate in the study. In the study, “Body Image Scale” translated into Turkish by Hovardaoğlu (1986) that validity and reliability were performed was used as data collection tool. In analysis of data, SPSS 20 package program was used and “The Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test” was applied in order to decide whether data has normal distribution and “Levene’s Test” was applied to test the homogeneity of variances and it is observed that data is homogeneous and has a normal distribution. In analyzing the data; descriptive statistics, one way variance analysis to determine the difference between variables more than two and Tukey testto determine the difference between the averages were used. At the end of the study, body image level of athletes who competing in 90 kg and below

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