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Thesis Type: Doctorate
Institution Of The Thesis: Gazi University, Eğitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Turkey
Approval Date: 2018
Thesis Language: Turkish
Student: Emre Ozan TİNGAZ
Supervisor: MUHSİN HAZAR
Abstract:The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of 8-week mat Pilates exercise on thinking styles, psychosocial adjustment, temperament and character in healthy adult women. In accordance with this purpose, 42 volunteers were included in the study, consisting of 20 experimental and 22 control groups, aged between 19 and 39 years. In order to measure psychosocial adaptation, Hacettepe Personality Inventory, Rational-Experiential Thinking Styles Scale was used to measure thinking styles and Temperament and Character Inventory to measure temperament and character, and International Physical Activity Questionnaire to measure physical activity level. In the analysis using SPSS 23; dependent sample t-test, Chi-Square, Shapiro Wilk and Mann Whitney U, Wilcoxon signed rank test were used and the level of significance was set at 0.05. As a result of the measurements made at the end of 8 weeks, no statistically significant change was observed in terms of thinking styles, neither in the control group nor in the experimental group. When the results of the Hacettepe personality inventory were examined for the control group; there was no statistically significant change in personal adaptation, self-realization, emotional stability, psychotic symptoms, neurotic tendencies, social relations, social norms and anti-social tendencies. There was a decrease in the scores of social adaptation and family relations which were formed by the answers of the control group participants. It can be said with 95% confidence that this change in social adaptation and family relations scores of the participants of the control group is statistically significant. In the experimental group, no significant change was observed in the general adaptation, personal adaptation and social adaptation after the application. However, the temperament and character inventory sub-dimensions of the experimental and control groups did not show a statistically significant difference.