Researching of the relationship between women's body-liking attitudes, recreation awareness levels of women

While liking the body, accepting the body as it is, having positive feelings about the body, recreation awareness is being conscious about recreational activities that people voluntarily do in their leisure time. The purpose of this research; To determine women's body liking attitudes and recreation awareness levels of women, to determine whether demographic variables are effective on these levels and to examine the correlation between these two concepts. The sample of the study consists of 772 women aged 20 and over living in Gümüşhane city center. This survey study was conducted in the province of Gümüşhane in 2019-2020. As a data collection tool in the research; was used "Body Liking Scale (BBÖ)" developed by Tykla and Wood-Barcalow (2015) and Adapted to Turkish by Anlı et al (2015) and "Recreation Awareness Scale (RFÖ)" developed by Ekinci and Özdilek (2019). Descriptive, correlation, regression analysis, independent sample t-test and one-way variance (ANOVA) analysis were used to analyze the data. A low level of correlation was explored between women's body liking attitudes, recreation awareness, and age and monthly income variables. A significant difference was found between the variables of body mass index and regular exercise / doing sports and women's body liking attitudes and body mass index, marital status, child ownership and education level and recreation awareness levels.In addition, a statistically significant, linear and low level relationship was found between women's body liking attitudes and recreation awareness levels. It was determined that body liking attitude is a variable that predicts the recreation awareness level.