A Study on Learned Helplessness and Life Satisfaction of Women Who Play Sports and Who Don’t Play Sports

Abstract

This study was to examine the learned helplessness and life satisfaction levels of women who attend private gyms opened with controlled normalization in the covid-19 process and who failed to participate in sports. The required data were obtained from the online application performed on the women attending private gyms operating in Trabzon with controlled normalization in July 2020 and the volunteer participants that are easily accessible in the immediate surroundings, who agree to participate in the study. "Personal Information Form", "Learned Helplessness Scale" whose validity and reliability study was used to collect data within the scope of the research. As per the findings, when the learned helplessness levels of the participants who participated in sports and those who didn't were examined, a significant difference was found in favour of women who participated in sports. Again, when the life satisfaction levels of the participants were examined, a significant difference was found in favour of those who participated in sports. A statistically negative and high relationship was found between the participants' learned helplessness and life satisfaction. Considering the learned helplessness levels of the participants, no significant difference was found according to marital status, age and education levels.