The Examination of Life Satisfaction Levels of Individuals Practicing Sport at Private Sport Centers

Year 2015, Volume 3 (Special Issue 1), 196 - 204, 28.07.2015

Yusuf Barsbuğa , Merve Kıloğlu

https://doi.org/10.14486/IJSCS286

Abstract

The goal of this study was to measure and evaluate the life satisfaction levels in the individuals doing sport at private sport centers. The search group was made of 75 female, 125 male attendants randomly chosen from the members doing sport regularly at the private sport center called Maximum Fitness Center located in Konya throughout one year.
In this study based on the scanning (survey) method, The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), which was developed by Diener et al. (1985), whose validity and reliability were performed by Yetim (1993), was used herein. The SPSS 16.0 statistically package program was used to evaluate the data and determine the calculated values. The data were summarized by giving the average and standart deviations. It has been determined that the data did not show a normal distribution; the Mann Whitney U Test was used during the dual league comparisons, the Kruskal Walliz H Test was used during the multiple comparisons of data. The error level was regarded as 0.05 in this study.
In the results of the research, while evaluating the life satisfaction levels of the individuals doing sport at private sport centers due to the gender parameter, a statistically meaningful difference was observed in favour of married members. While a statistically meaningful difference was not found in the life satisfaction levels of the members attending in the survey in accordance with the education and age parameters, it was seen that the members with an income of 1000 TL and over had a higher life satisfaction level than the members with an income of 1000 TL and below in accordance with the income parameter.

Keywords

Life Satisfaction, Sport, Exercise

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