Investigation the exercise dependence symptoms among dancers
Journal Title: Uluslararası Spor Egzersiz ve Antrenman Bilimi dergisi - Year 2015, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the exercise addiction symptoms among dancers. Material and Methods: Totally 99 dancers (48 female and 51 male) minimum 2 years licensed in dance (Folk dance, Modern dance, Latin dance) participated in to the study voluntary. Demographic survey and Exercise Dependence Scale-21 which was developed by Hausenblas HA. and Downs DS. (2002) and adapted in to Turkish by Yeltepe H. and Ikizler H.C. (2007) used to collect data. Kruskal-Wallis test in SPSS was used to analyze data. Results: Analysis showed that %20.4 of participants was asymptomatic, %69.4 of was symptomatic and %10.2 was exercise addiction. Besides it is found that dancers had University level education majority (%80.6). Symptomatic (%48.1) and addicts (%8.1) were Folk dancers mostly. Symptomatic had statistically higher exercise age than asymptomatic and addicts had statistically higher daily exercise duration than the others were found. Conclusion: According to findings It is possible to say that; the high frequency of daily exercise and the high exercise age can be effective to appear the exercise dependence among dancers.
Authors and Affiliations
Özhan BAVLI, Serkan IŞIK, Ozan CANPOLAT, Ayşegül AKSOY, Bilgetekin Burak GÜNAR, Kübra GÜLTEKİN, Haşim KATRA, Meliha UZUN, Meriç ÖDEMİŞ
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