Abstract:

The study was conducted to determine how senior and graduate students treat their leisure, the relationship between their participation in leisure activities and wellness and their perceptions regarding their wellness dimensions. The sample consisted of 516 students among 3298 students registered in 13 educational institutions offering courses within the scope of the KPSS-A Group in Çankaya, Ankara. The personal information form, “Leisure Participation Scale” developed by Cheng-Yu Tsai (2004) and “Perceived Wellness Scale” developed by Adams, Bezner and Stein-hardt (1997) and adapted to Turkish by Memnun (2006) were used as the data collection tools. T test, One-Way ANOVA test, Pearson correlation test and regression test were used to evaluate the data. According to the findings obtained in this study, there is a significant difference between the demographic variables of perceived wellness and leisure time participation according to gender, marital status, age, place of residence, education level, monthly total budget, time allo-cated to oneself and weekly leisure time (p<0, 05). According to the results of the Pearson correlation test, a weak negative correlation (r= -0.139) was found between social wellness and sports activities, while there was a positive correlation between other levels.

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