AN INVESTIGATION OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS OF ACADEMICIANS IN SPORT SCIENCES – THE EXAMPLE OF MARMARA UNIVERSITY AND İSTANBUL GELIŞIM UNIVERSITY, TURKEY

Ömer Eryiğit,Serap Mungan Ay

doi:10.46827/ejpe.v6i10.3497

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the physical activity levels of academicians working at the sports science faculties of state and foundation universities. The sample group of the study consists of academicians working at Marmara University and Istanbul Gelişim University. As a data collection tool in research, in addition to the personal information form "International Physical Activity questionnaire", developed by the World Health Organization and adapted to Turkish by Öztürk (2005) was used. In the evaluation of the data, besides descriptive statistics, Chi-Square test was used. As a result of the analysis, a difference was found between the physical activity levels of the academicians working at Marmara University according to their gender, age and monthly income level. No statistically significant difference was found between the gender, age, marital status, weekly lesson hours, university service years, monthly income and body mass indexes and physical activity levels of the academicians working at Istanbul Gelişim University. As a result, it has been determined that the participation levels of the academicians working in the sports science faculties of state and foundation universities differ in terms of some socio-demographic characteristics.  Article visualizations:<img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0770/a.php" alt="Hit counter" />

Highlights

Physical activity is described as the bodily actions that occur as a result of the contraction of the muscles in the skeletal system, enabling effort to be exerted above the basic level (Kırbaş, 2020)
According to the gender variables of the sports science academics at state and foundation universities, for "MU", looking at the statistics on physical activity levels, it was found that there was a significant difference in terms of the gender variable of the academicians with low physical activity, moderate physical activity and high physical activity
In the same variable for IGU; considering the statistics on physical activity levels, it was found that there was no significant difference in terms of gender variable

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Introduction

Physical activity is described as the bodily actions that occur as a result of the contraction of the muscles in the skeletal system, enabling effort to be exerted above the basic level (Kırbaş, 2020). In another definition, energy is wasted as a result of stimulation of the muscles with a force above the resting level The goal of physical activity, increasing endurance, strength and flexibility, eliminating the lack of muscle and joint actions, decreasing body fat and reaching the ideal weight (Tayar et al, 2011). The following comment was made for physical activity. The energy consumed by the movements of the individual through his muscles, that is, the energy consumed by an individual in a day (Ağırbaş Ö. et al.)

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