The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between social appearance anxiety and nutritional habits of the students at the faculty of sports sciences. The sample group of the study consisted of 330 students studying at Erciyes University Faculty of Sport Sciences in the 2018-2019 academic year, and they were selected randomly. For the purpose of collecting data in the research, the personal information form prepared by the researcher, the social appearance anxiety scale developed by Hart et al.(2008) and adapted into Turkish by Dogan (2010), and a three-factor nutrition scale developed by Karlsson et al.(2000) and adapted into Turkish by Kırac et al.(2015) were used.

The data obtained in the study were analyzed in computer environment. Number, percentage, mean, standard deviation were used as descriptive statistical methods in the evaluation of the data. Pearson correlation test was applied among the continuous variables of the study. As a result of the statistical procedures, a low negative relationship was found between the social appearance anxiety and the emotional eating and sensitivity to hunger subtitles of the nutrition scale. As a result, it is thought that the students studying in the faculty of sports sciences have low social appearance anxieties thanks to the exercises they have done both in their sports life and in the applied courses in the faculty they study, and the training, competition and resting intervals in which sports life has become habitual lead them to have a controllable eating habit.