Determination and relationship ofenergy and nutritional habitswith physical activity levels and healthy lifestyle behaviors of primary education teacher and pre-service teachers'

The purpose of the present study was to determine and relationship of physical activity level and healthy lifestyle behaviors in teaching staffs and students in Bartın University. 105 primary teacher (69 female, 36 male) in Bartın and 95 male and female students from (64 female, 31 male) Bartın University participated in this study voluntarily. In the study, the short form of International Physical Activity Questionnaire (Total PA levels are categorised as inactive (low), minimum active and physically active group by using MET method) was used for the determination of physical activity level of students. For the determination of healthy lifestyle behaviors Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile Questionnaire was used with self-actualization (SA), health responsibility (HR), exercise (E), nutrition (N), interpersonal support (IS) and stress management(SM) subscales. Results of Pearson Product Moment Correlation analyses indicated significant pozitif correlations between total physical activity level and exercises (r=.52; p<0.01) and healthy lifestyle behaviors (r=.47; p<0.01) in teaching staffs and total physical activity level and health responsibility (r=.60; p<0.05), exercise (r=.69; p<0.05), interpersonal support (r=.62; p<0.01), stress management (r=.72; p<0.05), nutrition (r=.60; p<0.05), and healthy lifestyle behaviors (r=.63; p<0.05) in students. As a conclusion, the findings of the present study indicated that healthy lifestyle behaviors were indicator of physical activity level of üniversity staffs and students. Key Words Physical activity, health promotion lifestyle profile, nutritional habits, primary teacher