Abstract

The aim of this study was to evaluate the healthy lifestyle behaviors of university students. Research has been applied to Selcuk University Alaeddin Keykubat campus students located in the center of Konya. The research was carried out at the Faculty of Dentistry, Faculty of Literature, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Fine Arts, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Communication, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Architecture, Faculty of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Faculty, Faculty of Arts and Design, Faculty of Technology, Faculty of Tourism, Faculty of Sports Sciences. The study was developed by Walker et al. (1996) and the Turkish version was adapted by Bahar et al. (2008). Research is descriptive and ıt used that quantitative research method. İn this survey, Data which were collected using the face-to-face survey method, was analyzed and interpreted by SPSS program. 36,5% of the students who participated in the survey were male and 63,5% were females. Educational status of the mothers of the students participating in the survey: 72,5% are primary school graduates, 15,3% are high school graduates, 2,2% are associate degree graduates and 9,6% are undergraduate graduates. Educational status of fathers of students participating in the survey: 49,3% are primary school graduates, 31,3% are high school graduates, 5,2% are associate graduates and 14,3% are undergraduate graduates. students who participated in the survey, 81% of them were in the nuclear family, and 19% of them were in the large family. About 10,3% of the surveyed students, have between 0 and 1000₺ , 37,7% between 1001 and 2000₺, 31% between 2001 and 3000₺ and finally 20,9% with 3001 ₺ and over monthly family income. 14.8% of the students who participated in the survey live in villages or towns before coming to university, 25,4% of them live in counties, 32,3% of them live in cities and 27,6% of them live in big cities. The dimension, which is most related to the scale, "Health responsibility" dimension. "Stress management", "physical activity", "nutrition", "interpersonal relations", "self-realization" dimensions follows this dimension in turn. A significant difference was observed in the physical activity dimension (p<0,05). Male physical activity averages are higher than ladies. It has been found that students who are involved in the research have no chronic illnesses, have a higher self-realization rate than students with any chronic illness. . It has been determined that the average of nutritional behaviors of the students' who was living in the village before the university was lower than the average of the nutritional behaviors of the students living in the big cities before the university.

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