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- Title
Investigation of the Relationship Between Muscle Deprivation and Eating Disorder in Fitness Athletes.
- Authors
KALKAVAN, Arslan; TERZİ, Esranur; KAYHAN, Recep Fatih
- Abstract
In this study, it was aimed to investigate the relationship between muscle deprivation and eating disorder tendency in the sample of Turkish athletes and to examine them in terms of gender, years of doing sports and number of training. A total of 276 fitness athletes with an average age of 26.72, determined by the random sampling method based on voluntariness, participated in the questionnaire applied in the study. The data of the research were collected by google form online questionnaire using “Personal Information Form”, “Muscle Deprivation Scale” and “Orthorexia-11 Scale”. Independent Sample T Test, One-Way ANOVA test and Pearson Correlation test were used to analyze the data determined to be normally distributed. It was determined that the muscle deprivation scores of the athletes differed according to gender, number of training sessions and years of doing sports (p<0.05), if their orthorexic tendencies differed according to gender and number of training sessions (p<0.05). In addition, a negative correlation was observed between the muscle deprivation levels of the athletes and their eating disorder scores (p<0.05). Body dissatisfaction appears to be one of the most consistent and robust causal risk factors for eating disorder behaviors. Considering the importance of physical appearance in fitness athletes, it is thought that the desire to build more muscle due to environmental influences is thought to be a factor in increasing muscle deprivation in them, while the desire to have a fit triangle body appearance puts the fitnes under pressure and causes deterioration in their eating behaviors.
- Subjects
MUSCULAR atrophy; EATING disorders; DISEASES in athletes; BODY image; MUSCLES
- Publication
Gümüshane Üniversitesi Saglik Bilimleri Dergisi, 2023, Vol 12, Issue 4, p1941
- ISSN
2146-9954
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.37989/gumussagbil.1271855