The effects of anxiety levels of physical education and sport teachers on their healthy lifestyle behaviors

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of anxiety levels of Physical Education and Sport teachers on their healthy lifestyle behaviors. For that purpose, 208 (Bay:104 – Bayan: 104) Physical Education and Sport teachers who have been working at the center of Adana city were recruited in this study voluntarily. Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II developed Walker et al., (1996), and State Trait Anxiety Inventory developed by Spielberger ve Gorsuch (1964) were used in the study. The data was analyzed using SPSS 16.0 Package Program, and level of significance was determined to be 0.05. According to results of this study, when the answers were examined for 5, 6, 14, 38, 48 and 52 items of Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II, it was found while there is a significant relationship between man and female, there is no a significant relationship between man and female in terms of other items. When the answers were examined for 3, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 28, 31, 32, 33 and 34 items of State Trait Anxiety Inventory, it was found while there is a significant relationship between man and female, there is no a significant relationship between man and female in terms of other items. Also, it was found that there is a significant relationship between age and healthy lifestyle behaviors (p<0.01), between frequency of sports and healthy lifestyle behaviors (p<0.01), between frequency of sports and state-trait anxiety (p<0.01), between healthy lifestyle behaviors and state-trait anxiety (p<0.05). In conclusion, taking into results of this study and current literature consideration, it was found that people with higher anxiety levels have lower healthy lifestyle profile than people with normal anxiety levels. In this context, it was found that there is a pozitif relationship between healthy lifestyle profile and anxiety levels, and anxiety levels can effect healthy lifestyle profiles of people. Improving opportinuties provided to Physical Education and Sport teachers can decline anxiety levels of them, and also it is thought that they can provide various contribution to Physical Education and Sport teachers as sociological and psychological.