Sp Soc Int J Ph Ed Sp 2016 - Volume 16 – Issue 2 19 ACCORDING TO VARIOUS DEGREEE OF CONFIDENCE AND SOCIAL DESIRABILITY OF LEVELS ANALYSING PEOPLE WHO EXERCISE IN THE FITNESS CENTERS: EXAMPLE OF BATMAN H. Murat ŞAHİN 1 , Melike ESENTAŞ 2 , Enes IŞIKGÖZ 3 , Bülent ÜZÜMCÜ 4 , Kübra FİDAN 5 , Gülbarin AYAŞ 6 1” Assoc.Prof. Batman University, College of Physical Education and Sport, Batman, Turkey. E-mail:hmuratsahin@gmail.com 2” Asst.Prof. Batman University, College of Physical Education and Sport, Batman, Turkey. E-mail:melike.esentas@windows.live.com 3” Asst.Prof. Batman University, College of Physical Education and Sport, Batman, Turkey. E-mail:pdgenes@gmail.com 4” PhD. Batman University, College of Physical Education and Sport, Batman, Turkey. E-mail: bulentuzum@hotmail.com 5” Batman University, College of Physical Education and Sport, Batman, Turkey. E-mail: kubra.fidan@hotmail.com 6” Batman University, College of Physical Education and Sport, Batman, Turkey. E-mail: gulbarina@gmail.com Abstract. To aim of this study, confidence and social desirability of levels that doing exercise of male and female athletes in fitness centers, is to examine according to several variables. Working group consist of that doing exercise 152 volunteers which is 36 female and 116 male, between January and April 2016 in two fitness room at the Batman province. In this research as data collection tools which had developed by Akın (2007) “ Confidence Scale “ and had developed by Akın (2010) “Social Desirability Scale”. The results of this study shows that the level of confidence of people who go to fitness center regularly is higher than social acceptence level. While marital status doesnt influence the results, sex changes the outcomes in terms of social desirability. Additionally education, monthly income and the reason to go to fitness center only change the levels of confidence. Key Words: Sport, Fitness, Confidence, Social Desirability, Exercise Introduction Sport has become a part of human life nowadays. The way of a healthy life has achieved by sports. Sport hasn’t just brought physical, psychological and social benefits also should not to be ignored. Sport starts with any body movement and continues with energy consumption, activity that occurs when muscle groups are moved at a certain level. A physical exercise that done a regular basis, that play an important role in improving health and quality of life [1]. Purpose of people who is interested in sport; Improve the physical and mental health of a person, make gain confidence and achieve top level performance. [2]. While sports affect the health of people positively, it has also considered that positive contribution to increase confidence. The image of a person reflected on the outside is important in terms of confidence, because comfortable and safe image has a positive effect on people; it also causes the person to trust him more [3]. Confidence according to Akagunduz [4], he individual feels good about himself as a result of developing good and positive feelings, these is the result of good feeling to be peace both himself and his surroundings, Cüceloğlu [5], as basic feeling which triggers someone to act, is defined. The researches made and arguments put forward emphasize the importance of confidence in the person's mental health, success and happiness. Because people who has more confidence, accepting the conditions that cannot be changed in a peaceful way, showing the courage to change the conditions and person who have the wisdom to distinguish between the conditions that they can change. Highly confident people are healthy, happy, and happy about their surroundings.[6]. As the level of confidence increases, the person begins to socialize and being also more confident with himself contributes to be socially acceptable. Social desirability; While the person answers the items of any measuring instrument, instead of giving realistic information about himself, social and normative sense is defined as the tendency to promote itself in a positive way[7]. General Meaningful social desirability, Individual-group which is one of the basic equations of social psychology, within the framework of the relationship between the individual and society, giving individuals socially desirable responses or defined as the tendency to leave a positive impression attitudes in society. [8]. One of the most important and constant problems for researchers who use self-reported measurement tools in their studies, people are biased, as the