Abstract:

The aim of this study is to study the obstacles to the participation of students in different faculties of universities and sports sciences in their leisure activities and to determine the impact of education that students receive on their participation in their leisure activities. The study included 109 students studying at the Faculty of Eastern Sports Sciences and 286 students studying at other faculties or higher schools voluntarily. Our research has been used by Gürbüz and Karaküçük (2007) developed "The scale of free time obstacles". The Cronbach Alpha internal consistency ratio is calculated in 6 sub-dimensions (individual psychology, lack of information, facility, lack of friends, time, lack of interest). In the statistical analysis of the data, the SPSS 22.0 package program was used. T-Test was used to compare free time barriers according to the participants’ sections. When the findings of our study are examined, there is no statistically significant difference between the students of the Faculty of Sports Sciences and other faculty or high school students in 6 sub-dimensions (individual psychology, lack of information, facility, lack of friends, time, lack of interest) according to the findings regarding the presumed factors that may prevent them from participating in recreational events (p>0,05). As a result, an important factor in the participation of individuals in recreational activities are economic powers. It is believed that the age and income levels of university students that are determining here are close to one and cause them to show similar behaviors in participating in their leisure activities. However, we believe that it will be useful to conduct more detailed and identifying studies to university students in order to more healthy results.

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