TY  - JOUR
TT  - DETERMINING THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVEL OF ACADEMICIANS AND EXAMINING IT RELATED TO SOME VARIABLES
AU  - Memiş, Uğur Altan
AU  - Yıldıran, İbrahim
PY  - 2007
DA  - July
Y2  - 2007
JF  - Gazi Journal of Physical Education and Sport Sciences
JO  - Gazi JPESS
PB  - Gazi University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2717-9966
SP  - 11
EP  - 24
VL  - 12
IS  - 3
KW  - Fiziksel Aktivite Düzeyi
KW  - Vücut Kitle İndeksi
KW  - Sedanter Yaşam Tarzı
N2  - In this survey type research, which was aimed to examine the physical activity level (PAL) of academicians,who are assumed to have highest education level, related to some variables. Randomly selected 752 academicians,working currently in the central faculties of the universities in Ankara, participated in this research. AerobicsCenter Longitudinal Study Physical Activity Questionnaire, created by Blair, was used to determine the physicalactivity level and patterns of the research group during the last three months and the frequency, percentageand differences in the physical activity level were examined according to their gender, age, marital status,having a child, completing a post graduate programme in abroad, academical degree, monthly income andbody mass index. Because participants in this study reported their height and weight values to the questionn aires,body mass index values of them were calculated regarding to those reports. According to the results women’sphysical activity level were significantly lower than men. Although there were not any significant differencesbetween physical activity levels and age, having a child and academical levels, it was seen that as the age andacademical degree rose, the physical activity level also increased. There was a significant difference in thephysical activity level of academicians who had high monthly income. In this research no significant differencewas seen between obese and normal weight academicians’ physical activity level.
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UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/gbesbd/issue//306670
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/294584
ER  -