Özet:

The aim of this study is to study the levels of disappointment based on the circumstances in which retirees over 55 years of age participate in recreational activities in their leisure time. For this purpose, the purpose of the research was explained to individuals over the age of 55 who declare they are retired in the pension houses, parks and cafés located in the city center of Kocaeli Izmit District. A total of 80 retirees, including 41 women and 39 men, who wanted to participate in the work, were taken into the work scope. For the purpose of gathering data to volunteers, the Personal Information Form and the Beck Desperation Scale (BUO) are applied. The results of the application were analyzed in the SPSS 21.00 package program. In the statistical analyses made, the data showed normal distribution, the t test for independent groups for two-group comparisons, the one-way Varyans analysis for three and moregroup comparisons was used. The results of the analyses are: those who do not participate in the activity in their leisure hours, those who are 70 years old or older; those who have a low level of education, singles, who do not have a pre-pension profession and who do not work actively, while the disappointment rates are significantly high; there is no significant difference in terms of gender, psychotherapy and income conditions.

Özet:

The aim of this study is to examine the level of hopelessness in 55-year-old (and over) retired individuals according to their participation in recreation activities in their free times. In accordance with this aim, 55-year-olds, who declared that they are retired, were informed about the aim of the study in retirement community houses, parks and cafés in the city centre of Izmit, Kocaeli Province.  After the explanations about the study, 80 (41 females and 39 males) retired individuals who are willing to join, were included in the study.  Volunteers were applied Personal Information Form and Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) with the aim of collecting the data of the study. The data that was collected at the end of the study was analysed with SPSS21.00 package programme.  As the data showed normal distribution in statistical analysis, t test was applied to independent groups for paired-cluster comparisons. However, one - way ANOVA was used for three and more cluster comparisons. At the end of the analysis, hopelessness scores were observed to be significantly high in favour of those who do not participate in any activities in their leisure time, who are over 70, whose educational level is low, who are unmarried, and the ones who hadn’t worked actively before retirement. However, no significant difference was found when their gender or their income was taken into consideration. In addition, whether they had any psychological treatment or not didn2t show any significant difference. 

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