RESEARCH OF THE LIFE SATISFACTION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO EXERSIZE REGULARLY
Journal Title: The Journal of International Social Research - Year 2017, Vol 10, Issue 51
Abstract
Many researhes have been carried out to find out the quality of life, to increase the the life satifaction and to find answers to the questions about the values that make our lives meaningful. Such researches have become the center of interest of the social sciences. The aim of this study is to examine the level of life satisfaction of individuals who exersize regularly. Our research was conducted on 106 members (66 male and 40 female) of a private health club that operates in Istanbul. Participation of this research is on volunteer basis. Test subjects was determined by random sampling method. In this study, demographic variables information form that the researcher deveolped, and the satisfaction with life scale (SWLS) that was developed by Diener, Emmons, Larsen ve Griffin (1985) have been used. The analysis of data was done by using SPSS programs (T-test and univariate analysis of variance). Meaningfulness level was accepted as p < 0.05. According to the outcome data of this research, there is no significant difference between the life satisfaction levels of the individuals who exersize regularly and the variables of sex, number of children, frequency of doing sports and height, but on the other hand, there is a significant difference between the life satisfaction levels of individuals who exersize regularly and the age, marital status, most recently graduated educational institution, years of work and weight variables.
Authors and Affiliations
Ecem HANBAY
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP255237
- DOI -
- Views 104
- Downloads 0
14 ŞUBAT 1909 HÜKÜMET KRİZİ ÖNCESİNDE:<br /> “İNGİLİZ GÖZÜYLE OSMALI HÜKÜMETİ VE MECLİS-İ MEBUSAN”<br />
İngiliz Büyükelçisi Sir Gerard Lowther’in 1908 Yılı Türkiye Raporu’nda İngiltere’nin Osmanlı Devleti’ne bakışı ve bu bakış çerçevesinde; 1909 yılı Ocak ayı içerisinde görevde bulunan Kâmil Paşa Hükümeti’nin üyeleri, 1908...
HOUSE OWNERSHIP AS A WELL-BEING INDEX AMONG RETIREES IN OSUN STATE, NIGERIA
Retirees’ needs and well-being in Nigeria have been premised on a blanket assumption of homogeneity of needs, housing needs inclusive. This study examined house ownership as a subjective well-being determinant among nine...
ANATOLIANIST HISTORIOGRAPHY
Anatolianist Movement, which came into being with the objective of building the provide for acquisition of a new identity and create a new politics of fiction, and at a time when the validity of the ideas regarding the p...
ETHICAL APPROACHES IN ONLINE BROADCASTING: RIGHT TO PRIVACY
As its character, Internet Newspaper has become one of the fastest information sharing portal in the world which makes it more important than everything. Not only Internet Newspapers, but also Social Media tools let peop...
ANALYSING FICTIONAL ITEMS OF PEYAMİ SAFA'S NOVEL "MATMAZEL NORALİYA'NIN KOLTUĞU" AND PSYCHOANALITICAL APPROACH TO THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THE NOVEL
Peyami Safa chooses human and his conflict with the iner and outer world as main subject in his novels. There is a true relation between his life and his novels fort hat reason he creates real fictions. He creates such c...