Investigation of university students attitudes toward leisure time activities (ardahan university sample)

Investigation of university students attitudes toward leisure time activities (ardahan university sample)

The aim of this research is to identify the attitudes of university students towards leisure activities, their levels of participationin activities and the state of adequate opportunities. The population of the study consists of 5200 students having studied in theeducation year of 2017-2018 and the sample of the study consists of 1057 (538 male, 519 female) volunteer students. In theresearch “Free Time Attitude Scale” was used as a data collection tool developed by Akgül and Gürbüz (1). According to thefindings of the study, the distribution of students ' gender is close to each other. No difference has been found in the attitudestowards leisure activities according to the gender factor (p = 0.402). It has been found that leisure time attitudes of the studentsin the Faculty of Engineering and School of Physical Education and Sport higher than the other faculties. In the age factor, thedifference has been found only in the behavioral area. While the participants think that their academic GPA effects successpositively, no significant difference has been observed in pearson correlation analysis. As a result, it can be said in the researchthat female students are much more social and positive compared to male students in decision making in terms of leisure timeactivities.

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