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TheEffects of Pilates Exercise as a Recreational Activity on Quality of Life andPsychology in Women

Çağla Ecem Yarız Terzi(GIRESUN UNIVERSITY)0000-0002-2837-4050
Asiye Hande Başkan(GİRESUN ÜNİVERSİTESİ, SPOR BİLİMLERİ FAKÜLTESİ)0000-0002-7298-2184
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2025-06-30
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Inconclusion, while Pilates exercisesimprovequality of life, they havelesspronouncedeffects on psychologicalresilience.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Theaim of thestudywastoexaminetheeffects of Pilates exercises on women'squality of life andpsychologicalresiliencelevels.
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Theaim of thestudywastoexaminetheeffects of Pilates exercises on women'squality of life andpsychologicalresiliencelevels. Thesamplegroup of thisstudyconsisted of 315 femaleindividualsbetweentheages of 18-54. Demographicinformation form, BriefPsychologicalResilienceScaleandQuality of Life Scale (SF-12) wereused as data collectiontools. Instatisticaltests, it wasdeterminedthatthe data did not show normal distributionandthedifferencesbetweenthegroupswereanalyzedwith Mann-Whitney U andKruskal-Wallis tests. TherelationshipsweredeterminedbySpearmancorrelationanalysis. Theresults of thestudyrevealedthatpracticing Pilates had a significanteffect on quality of life (p 0.05). Inaddition, thefrequency of pilates wasdetermined as an importantfactoraffectingthequality of life of theparticipants (p 0.05). Inconclusion, while Pilates exercisesimprovequality of life, they havelesspronouncedeffects on psychologicalresilience.

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Terzi, Ç. E. Y., Başkan, A. H. (2025). TheEffects of Pilates Exercise as a Recreational Activity on Quality of Life andPsychology in Women. Herkes için Spor ve Rekreasyon Dergisi, Volume: 7 Issue: 2. https://doi.org/10.56639/jsar.1678995

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