“…Exercise addiction, a disease that can be described as the "dark side" of exercise, which negatively affects human health, has been the subject of research frequently recently (Tekkurşun Demir and Türkeli, 2019). When the literature was examined, although there are separate studies on the subjects of exercise addiction (Bavlı et al, 2011;Berczik et al, 2014;Cicioğlu et al, 2019;Griffiths, 1997;Landolfi, 2013;Lichtenstein and Hinze, 2020;Szabo and Griffiths, 2007;Tekkurşun Demir and Türkeli, 2019;Vardar, 2012;Yeltepe and İkizler, 2007) and social appearance anxiety (Çetinkaya et al, 2019;Doğan, 2010;Ekşi et al, 2016;Ermiş and Imamoğlu, 2019;Hart et al, 2008;Levinson and Rodebaugh, 2011;Reilly et al, 2018;Senger, 2017), Afr Educ Res J 76 no research was found in which the relationship between these two concepts was examined. Based on this abstract, the study aimed to reveal the exercise addiction and social anxiety levels of healthy adults who regularly receive sports services.…”