Investigation of self-esteem and social appearance anxiety levels of university students doing exercise and the ones who do not exercice

Physical appearance has been important in people's lives throughout history. Positive or negative emotions associated with the self-conception which is an important determinant of the perceptions of an individual's appearance affects the feelings associated with social appearance as well. In this respect, the aim of this research is to examine the self-esteem and social appearance anxiety levels of the students who are studying at Siirt University in 2016-2017 and determine whether they differ according to gender, age, to be involved in licensed sports, parental education level variables. A total of 394 volunteers participated in the research, of which 233 were male (59.1%) and 161 were female (40.9%) who attended Siirt University Faculty of Education, Faculty of Administrative and Economic Sciences and Physical Education and Sports Higher School. In the scope of the research, personal information form was created by the researchers and Social Appearance Anxiety Scale SAAS and Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale RSEE were used as data collection tools. The internal consistency of the responses to the scales used in the study was examined by Cronbach alpha (α) and the coefficient was found to be .95 for "SAAS" and .70 for "RSEE". Data were analyzed by SPSS 21 package program. Descriptive statistics namely frequency (f), percentage (%), T-test, ANOVA and Pearson Correlation tests, were used. According to the results of the study, it is found that there is a significant difference between "SAAS" scores for gender and licensed sporting variables but not for the parental educational level and age. With respect to the "RSEE" scores, it is found that there is significant difference for the variables of the level of education of mother and for the involvement with licensed sport, however there is no significant difference for gender, age, and education level of father variables. Keywords: Self-Esteem, Student, Social Appearance Anxiety, Sports