ACCORDING TO VARIOUS DEGREEE OF CONFIDENCE AND SOCIAL DESIRABILITY OF LEVELS ANALYSING PEOPLE WHO EXERCISE IN THE FITNESS CENTERS: EXAMPLE OF BATMAN

• Main Authors: H. Murat ŞAHİN, Melike ESENTAŞ, Enes IŞIKGÖZ, Bülent ÜZÜMCÜ, Kübra FİDAN5, Gülbarin AYAŞ
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: ALTIUS ACADEMY Foundation - Faculty of Physical Education and Sports 2016-12-01
• Series: Sport şi Societate
• Subjects: Sport; Fitness; Confidence; Social Desirability; Exercise
• Online Access: http://www.sportsisocietate.ro/en/misc/doc/show/295

To aim of this study, confidence and social desirability of levels that doing exercise of male and female athletes in fitness centers, is to examine according to several variables. Working group consist of that doing exercise 152 volunteers which is 36 female and 116 male, between January and April 2016 in two fitness room at the Batman province. In this research as data collection tools which had developed by Akın (2007) “ Confidence Scale “ and had developed by Akın (2010) “Social Desirability Scale”. The results of this study shows that the level of confidence of people who go to fitness center regularly is higher than social acceptence level. While marital status doesnt influence the results, sex changes the outcomes in terms of social desirability. Additionally education, monthly income and the reason to go to fitness center only change the levels of confidence.