People’s personality is one of the key factors determining food choice and consequently eating habits and patterns. Although there is still disagreement about the basic structure of personality traits, most researchers now accept the five-factor of NEO personality model. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of personality traits in the eating habits of athletic students of Trabzon University by descriptive and correlational methods. The statistical population includes all student-athletes of the University of Trabzon, which are equal to 320 people. To determine the sample size, Cochran’s sample size estimation formula was used and the number of samples was 175 people who were selected by a simple random sampling method. The NEO personality traits questionnaire and Golestan Bagh et al. (2016) eating habits questionnaire were used to collect information.

Personality traits, eating habits, student-athletes, University of Trabzon