Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to test the reliability and validity of the “Leisure Attitude Scale” (LAS) for Turkish university students. The LAS administered 117 male (Mage= 23.04±2.17) and 101 female (Mage= 21.82±1.85) university students. Leisure Attitude Scale is a 36-item self-report measure of attitudes towards leisure (Ragheb &Beard, 1982) and consists of the following three subscales: (a) cognitive (12 item), (b) affective (12 item) and (c) behavioral (12 item). Participants were asked to rate each item on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1(strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Principle component Factor Analysis with Varimax Rotation for testing factor structure of Turkish version of Leisure Attitude Scale supported 3 factor structure for 218 university students and 36 items explains %54 of variance. KMO value of the scale was found as .935. Cronbach Alpha internal consistency value was also calculated for the three subscales and total scale. The results revealed the following alpha reliability coefficients: Affective= .92, Cognitive= .81 and Behavioral= .91. The reliability of the total scale was found to be high (α= .97). It can be concluded that the Leisure Attitude Scale is a reliable and valid instrument to measure the attitudes of Turkish university students towards leisure.

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