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Investigation of the Exercise Dependence of Athletes Doing Kickboxing, Taekwondo and Muaythai

Version 1 : Received: 22 January 2019 / Approved: 23 January 2019 / Online: 23 January 2019 (09:55:56 CET)

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Orhan, S.; Yücel, A.S.; Sadeq, B.J.; Orhan, E. Investigation of the Exercise Dependence of Athletes Doing Kickboxing, Taekwondo, and Muay Thai. Sports 2019, 7, 52. Orhan, S.; Yücel, A.S.; Sadeq, B.J.; Orhan, E. Investigation of the Exercise Dependence of Athletes Doing Kickboxing, Taekwondo, and Muay Thai. Sports 2019, 7, 52.

Abstract

Debates about the conditions in which the frequency and intensity principles of regular exercise, depending on the fact that sports background can be accepted as extremism, are still a controversial topic. The purpose of this research is to investigate the Exercise Dependence of Athletes doing Kickboxing, Taekwondo and Muaythai. The study included 141 athletes consisting of 87 men and 54 women. Exercise Dependence Scale composed of 21 items developed by Hausenblas and Downs and adapted into Turkish version by Yeltepe and İkizler was applied to athletes. As a result of the research, while athletes showed more sensitivity to exercise dependence scale (= 71.41), this scale was also defined as symptomatic. It was found that 5 athletes (3.5%) were asymptomatic-nondependent, 117 athletes (83.0%) were symptomatic-nondependent and 19 athletes (13.5%) were at-risk for exercise dependence. It was determined that athletes were at-risk for exercise dependence group while 8 athletes were doing kickboxing, 10 athletes were doing taekwondo and 1 athlete was doing muaythai athlete. A significant difference was observed according to regular training and number of daily training. It didn’t significantly differ in other variables. It is possible to say that regular training can be effective to reveal the exercise dependence.

Keywords

dependence; symptomatic; asymptomatic; kickboxing; taekwondo; muaythai

Subject

Social Sciences, Psychology

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