Civan, AdemŞimşek, YunusŞahin, İlaydaCesur, Buğrahan2023-07-212023-07-212022 AralıCivan, A., Cesur, B., Şimşek, Y., Şahin, İ., (2022). Investigation of the Effect of Doing Sports Frequency on Fear of Covid-19. Turkish Journal of Sport and Exercise, 24(3), 219-226. doi: 10.15314/tsed.11868842147-5652https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12395/48821Examining the novel type of corona virus (COVID-19) fear levels of female and male athletes constitutes the purpose of this study. The screening method, which is one of the quantitative research models, has been adopted in the study. The population of the research is composed of volunteer individuals (n=139) who are actively engaged in sports in the various sports clubs and different disciplines in the districts of Istanbul province, on the European coast (Küçükçekmece, Bakırköy, Zeytinburnu). All the data have been collected in an online environment by applying the questionnaire technique. The COVID-19 Fear Scale of athletes has been utilised as a data collection tool. T-test and single-way ANOVA analyses have been utilised as statistical procedures since it has been determined that the data are normally distributed. No significant discrepancy is found between the fear of COVID19 levels of athletes according to their gender, age, education level, chronic disease level, training status, financial level of their families, sports branch and years of participation in sports. Depending on the number of training days per week of the athletes, a significant difference has been identified between the levels of fear of COVID-19. The weekly training frequency affects the level of fear of COVID-19. For instance, the decrease in fear levels in people who train 5 or more days a week may be due to the fact that the people concerned are exposed to COVID-19 more as they go out and thus their anxiety decreases. People who maintain a routine may also be less afraid of COVID19 than those who socialise less. That is because such persons go out 5 or more days a week, maintain their routines and socialise at the same time, which may have an adverse effect on their level of fear and cause them to feel less fear.en10.15314/tsed.1186884info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCOVID-19level of fearathletesArticle243219226