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                                                                <journal-id>turk j sport exe</journal-id>
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                                                                                    <journal-title>Turkish Journal of Sport and Exercise</journal-title>
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                                        <issn pub-type="epub">2147-5652</issn>
                                                                                            <publisher>
                    <publisher-name>Selcuk University</publisher-name>
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                                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15314/tsed.1852942</article-id>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="en">
                                                            <subject>Sports Nutrition</subject>
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                                            <subj-group  xml:lang="tr">
                                                            <subject>Spor ve Beslenme</subject>
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                                                                                                                        <article-title>Evaluation of Eating Attitudes and Body Composition of University Students</article-title>
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                                    <trans-title>Üniversite Öğrencilerinin Yeme Tutumları ve Vücut Kompozisyonlarının Değerlendirilmesi</trans-title>
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                                                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2625-0898</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>İribalcı</surname>
                                    <given-names>Şükran</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>Selçuk Üniversitesi Spor Bilimleri Fakültesi</aff>
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                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8461-4393</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Karakaş</surname>
                                    <given-names>Beyza Nur</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                            </contrib>
                                                    <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                                    <contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">
                                        https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9187-8596</contrib-id>
                                                                <name>
                                    <surname>Yilmaz</surname>
                                    <given-names>Nazlı Deniz</given-names>
                                </name>
                                                                    <aff>SELÇUK ÜNİVERSİTESİ, SPOR BİLİMLERİ FAKÜLTESİ</aff>
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                                        <pub-date pub-type="pub" iso-8601-date="20260430">
                    <day>04</day>
                    <month>30</month>
                    <year>2026</year>
                </pub-date>
                                        <volume>28</volume>
                                        <issue>1</issue>
                                        <fpage>25</fpage>
                                        <lpage>33</lpage>
                        
                        <history>
                                    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="20251231">
                        <day>12</day>
                        <month>31</month>
                        <year>2025</year>
                    </date>
                                                    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="20260304">
                        <day>03</day>
                        <month>04</month>
                        <year>2026</year>
                    </date>
                            </history>
                                        <permissions>
                    <copyright-statement>Copyright © 1999, Turkish Journal of Sport and Exercise</copyright-statement>
                    <copyright-year>1999</copyright-year>
                    <copyright-holder>Turkish Journal of Sport and Exercise</copyright-holder>
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                                                                                                <abstract><p>The aim of this study is to evaluate the eating attitudes of university students according to their body composition and some demographic variables. The sample of the study consisted of a total of 364 university students, 181 women and 183 men, studying at the Faculty of Sports Sciences of Selçuk University. For this study, approval was obtained from the Non-Interventional Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Sports Sciences at Selçuk University, and informed consent forms were obtained from the participants confirming their voluntary participation. The study was conducted based on a survey model. Personal information forms prepared by the researcher and Eating Attitudes Test-26 scale forms designed to determine individuals&#039; eating attitudes were administered to the participants face-to-face outside of class hours, with the necessary explanations. In addition, the body composition components of the participants were determined using a Tanita BC 545 device. The data obtained from the research were analyzed using the SPSS 29.0 software package. Since the assumption of normal distribution was not met in the analysis of the data, non-parametric tests were used in the statistical evaluation of the data. For this purpose, the Mann Whitney U test was used for comparing quantitative data between two groups; The Kruskal-Wallis H test was used for more than two groups. Post hoc multiple comparisons were performed to identify the differing groups in the Kruskal-Wallis H test. The significance level was accepted as 0.05 in the study. The analysis revealed that, according to the cutoff values of the eating attitude scale, 90.6% of women had normal and 9.4% had abnormal eating attitudes, while 88.5% of men had normal and 11.5% had abnormal eating attitudes. Furthermore, while no significant difference was found in body composition according to gender and the cutoff values of the eating attitude scale, statistically significant results were obtained in the sub-dimensions of the eating attitude test according to age, exercise status, number of daily main and snack meals, daily water consumption, appearance perception, and healthy eating perception. In conclusion, it can be said that regular exercise and healthy eating habits acquired during childhood positively influence the eating attitudes and body composition of young adults, especially those in university.</p></abstract>
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                            <p>Bu çalışmanın amacı, üniversite öğrencilerinin yeme tutumlarını vücut kompozisyonlarını ve bazı demografik değişkenlere göre değerlendirmektir. Araştırmanın örneklemini, Selçuk Üniversitesi Spor Bilimleri Fakültesinde okuyan 181 kadın ve 183 erkek olmak üzere toplamda 364 üniversite öğrencisi oluşturmuştur. Bu çalışma için Selçuk Üniversitesi Spor Bilimleri Fakültesi Girişimsel Olmayan etik kurul kararı ve katılımcılardan çalışmaya gönüllü katıldıklarına dair gönüllü onam formu alınmıştır. Çalışma, tarama (survey) modeli temel alınarak gerçekleştirilmiştir. Katılımcılara araştırmacı tarafından hazırlanan kişisel bilgi formu, bireylerin yeme tutumlarını belirlemeye yönelik Yeme Tutum Testi-26 ölçek formları gerekli açıklamamlar yapılarak ders saatleri dışında yüz yüze görüşme yöntemi ile uygulanmıştır. Ayrıca katılımcıların vücut kompozisyon bileşenleri Tanita BC 545 cihazı ile belirlenmiştir. Araştırmadan elde edilen veriler SPSS 29.0 paket programı kullanılarak analiz edilmiştir. Verilerin analizinde normal dağılım varsayımı sağlanmadığı için, verilerin istatistik değerlendirmelerinde non-parametrik testler kullanılmıştır. Bunun için niceliksel verilerin karşılaştırılmasında iki grup için Mann Whitney U testi; ikiden fazla grup için Kruskal Wallis H testi kullanılmıştır. Kruskal Wallis H testi için farklı olan grubun tespitinde post hoc çoklu karşılaştırma yapılmıştır. Araştırmada anlamlılık düzeyi 0.05 olarak kabul edilmiştir. Yapılan analiz sonucunda; Çalışmamıza katılan bireylerin yeme tutum ölçeği kesme değerlerine göre kadınların %90,6’si normal % 9,4 anormal, erkeklerin %88,5’i normal %11.5 anormal yeme tutum düzeyine sahip oldukları belirlenmiştir. Ayrıca cinsiyet değişkenine ve yeme tutum ölçeğinin kesme değerlerine göre vücut kompozisyonlarında anlamlı bir fark bulunmazken, yeme tutum testi alt boyutlarında yaşa, egzersiz yapma durumuna, günlük ana ve ara öğün sayısına, günlük su tüketimi, görünüş algısı ve sağlıklı beslenme algısına göre istatistiki açıdan anlamlı sonuçlar elde edilmiştir. Sonuç olarak, çocukluk yıllarında kazanılan düzenli egzersiz ve sağlıklı beslenme alışkanlıklarının özellikle üniversite çağındaki genç yetişkin bireylerin yeme tutum davranışlarını ve vücut kompozisyonlarını olumlu yönde etkilediği söylenebilir.</p></trans-abstract>
                                                            
            
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                                                    <kwd>Eating Attitude Test</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Body Composition</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  University Student</kwd>
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                                                    <kwd>Yeme Tutum Testi</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Vücut Kompozisyonu</kwd>
                                                    <kwd>  Üniversite Öğrencileri</kwd>
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