ABSTRACT

Background: Mankind has been keeping away from physical activities with the inventions made by technological developments for years.

Aim: In this study; The aim of this study is to evaluate the attitudes of individuals aged 25-45, who lead a sedentary lifestyle, towards active sports.

Methods: The research was designed with a descriptive survey model, one of the quantitative research methods. The personal information form developed by the researcher by taking the opinion of the expert, and the "Attitude towards Sports Scale" (ATSS), whose Turkish validity and reliability study was conducted by Şentürk (2014), were used as data collection tools. SPSS 21 package program was used in the analysis of the research data. T-test was used for statistically paired groups, and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests were used for groups with more than two.

Conclusion: According to the results of the research, a significant difference was determined according to the variable of gender and undergraduate status (p<0.05), whereas no statistically significant difference was determined according to the variable of doing sports (p>0.05). No statistically significant difference was found according to the variables of education, age, income level and Smoking-Alcohol use of the participants (p>0.05), while a significant difference was determined according to the family's upbringing variable (p<0.05). 

As a result, it can be said that the findings obtained from the research and the results obtained in the literature are consistent. In our study, we investigated the attitudes towards active sports in sedentary individuals and compared with other studies, significant differences were obtained in the attitudes of individuals with a sedentary lifestyle towards active sports.