TheEffects of Pilates Exercise as a Recreational Activity on Quality of Life andPsychology in Women

Year 2025, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, 246 - 256, 30.06.2025

Çağla Ecem Yarız Terzi , Asiye Hande Başkan

https://doi.org/10.56639/jsar.1678995

Abstract

Theaim of thestudywastoexaminetheeffects of Pilates exercises on women'squality of life andpsychologicalresiliencelevels. Thesamplegroup of thisstudyconsisted of 315 femaleindividualsbetweentheages of 18-54. Demographicinformation form, BriefPsychologicalResilienceScaleandQuality of Life Scale (SF-12) wereused as data collectiontools. Instatisticaltests, it wasdeterminedthatthe data did not show normal distributionandthedifferencesbetweenthegroupswereanalyzedwith Mann-Whitney U andKruskal-Wallis tests. TherelationshipsweredeterminedbySpearmancorrelationanalysis. Theresults of thestudyrevealedthatpracticing Pilates had a significanteffect on quality of life (p<0.05), but did not make a significantdifference on psychologicalresilience (p>0.05). Inaddition, thefrequency of pilates wasdetermined as an importantfactoraffectingthequality of life of theparticipants (p<0.05). Significantdifferenceswerefound on psychologicalresilienceaccordingtoageandeducationlevel, and it wasfoundthatworkingindividualsandindividualsliving in thecity had higherlevels of psychologicalresilience (p<0.05). Although a lowlevelrelationshipwasfoundbetween Pilates participationandpsychologicalresilience, thisrelationshipwas not statisticallysignificant (p>0.05). Inconclusion, while Pilates exercisesimprovequality of life, they havelesspronouncedeffects on psychologicalresilience.

Keywords

Pilates Exercise , Psychological Resilience , Recreational Activity , Quality of Life

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