Leisure Negotation Strategies With the Leisure Constraints: Example of University Students


The aim of this study is to examine university students' participation in recreational activities and their strategies to cope with free time barriers in terms of different variables. While the university population constitutes the universe of the study, the sample group consists of 324 university students determined based on the principle of appropriate sampling and voluntary participation. In addition to the demographic data form as a data collection tool, Turkish adaptation for Turkish university students, developed by Hubbard and Mannell (2001), modified by Elkins (2004) to recreational campus sports, and validated by Beggs, Elkins and Powers (2005), is used by Yerlisu Lapa (2014) "Leisure Negotiation Strategies Scale" , which was carried out by. In the analysis of the data, percentage and frequency descriptive statistical methods were used to determine the distribution of the personal information of the participants, and the skewness and kurtosis values of the data were checked to determine whether the data showed a normal distribution. In addition, t-test and anova test analysis methods were used (α = 0.05). According to the findings, it was determined that there was no significant difference in terms of age, welfare level, weekly leisure time adequacy variables, but there was a significant difference in participants skills acquisition strategies sub-dimension according to their gender, class, participation in sports activities and leisure time difficulties. Consequently, according to socio-demographic characteristics of university students, the obstacles they encounter in free time and their coping strategies may differ. Studies on how individuals should deal with free time barriers should increase as quantitative and qualitative methods. The limitations of the study and evaluations for future studies are discussed in this sense.


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Recreation, Leisure, Negotiation Strategies

Author : Cemal GÜLER -Duygu Harmandar DEMİREL, Veli Ozan ÇAKIR, Davut BUDAK
Number of pages: 1919-1930
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.43508
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Turkish Studies-Social Sciences
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