Özet:

While the Covid-19 pandemic process changes the way of life, it appears to cause a series of psychological effects on the individual. Especially in this process, it is important for future recreation managers to identify what variables the perceptions of loneliness are associated with, to show how the individual perception of loneliness can be reduced in the event of a re-experience of social disorders in the future process. The outcome point of the study is to identify the factors affecting the perception of loneliness during the Covid-19 pandemic process. Therefore, the purpose of the research is to determine whether participation in recreational activities has an impact on the perception of loneliness. In this study, designed as a Nicel research, the visual scan design was used and the simple random sampling method was used as a sampling method. The universe of research is formed by the students of the Department of Recreation Management of the Faculty of Tourism of Necmettin Erbakan University. The study data was obtained using the “UCLA Solitude Scale”. Data analysis is done using the open source software "Jamovi" package program. The data is tested to determine the distribution of data. The results of the analysis found that the data had a normal distribution. To determine whether gender and recreational activities have a significant difference according to the status of participation, the "t-test" has been applied to determine whether there is a significant difference according to the time assigned to the income status, class and recreational activities, the one-way variance analysis "ANOVA" tests have been applied. According to the findings, the perception of loneliness of individuals who participate actively in recreational activities is quite low compared to individuals who participate passively. As a result; active participation in recreational activities is the most important element that reduces the perception of loneliness.

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