Concerns of catching covid-19, the skills of coaching with sporting problems, and related factors of individuals doing fitness exercise

In this study, it was aimed to examine the concerns of individuals who do fitness exercises, to cope with covid-19, their coping with sportive problems and related factors. Participants' age, gender, education level, marital status, financial situation, frequency of weekly exercise, sports history, whether it differs in terms of variables such as covid status is discussed within the scope of the general screening model while anxiety about catching covid-19, coping with sportive problems and determining the levels of related factors of individuals doing fitness exercises were examined within the scope of relational screening model. The population of the research consisted of individuals between the ages of 18-55 who regularly do fitness in the sports centers located in the center of Antalya. The survey application was made face-to-face to the participants. Data collection in the study consists of three parts. The personal information table created by the researcher in the first part, the scale developed by Smith, Schutz, Smoll, and Ptacek (1995) in the second part, the Test of Coping with Sportive Problems (ACSI-28), which was adapted to Turkish culture by Özcan (2017), and the Demir, Cicioğlu and İlhan's "Athletes' Anxiety of Conceiving New Type Coronavirus (Covid-19) Scale (SYTKYKÖ)" scale, whose validity and reliability studies were conducted in 2020, was used. In the analysis of the data, it was evaluated at 95% confidence interval and 0.05 significance level by using SPSS 25.00 package program. As a result of the findings obtained at the end of the study, Table 4 shows that there is a significant and positive relationship between the athletes' anxiety about catching the new type of coronavirus and their ability to cope with sports problems, and there are significant differences between the personal characteristics of the participants and the athletes' anxiety about catching the new type of coronavirus and their abilities to cope with sports problems(p<0.05).