THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LEVEL OF LEISURE PERCEPTION AND PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
ÜNİVERSİTE ÖĞRENCİLERİNİN SERBEST ZAMAN ALGI DÜZEYLERİ İLE PROBLEM ÇÖZME BECERİLERİ ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİ

Author : Emrah SERDAR -- Mehmet DEMİREL - Duygu HARMANDAR DEMİREL - Veli Ozan ÇAKIR
Number of pages : 549-560

Abstract

This study is to determine the level of leisure perception and problem-solving skills of university students and to identify and to reveal the relationship between these two concepts.209 university students in total, 95 "Males" and 114 "Females" selected by purposive sampling have voluntarily attended Survey model has been used in the study. The sample of the study consists of students who are studying at Dumlupınar University. As a data collection tool in research, "The Meaning Of Leisure Scale ", which has been developed by Esteve and friends (1999) and adopted into Turkish by Gürbüz and etl (2007); and “Problem Solving Inventory’’ which has been developed by Heppner and Petersen (1982) and the Turkish Adaptation was developed by Sahin and friends., (1993) were used. Shapiro-Wilks normality test has been applied to identify whether data had normal distribution, in the analysis of data MANOVA was used according to some demographic characteristics in order to identify differences between leisure perception and problem solving skills. Pearson Correlation was used. According to the variables of ‘’gender’’ and ‘’prosperity’’, MANOVA test results showed that there was a significant difference between the level of leisure perception and problem solving inventory in total scores (p<0.05). ‘’age’’ and ‘’sport branch’’ there was no significantly different between the level of leisure perception and problem solving inventory in total scores (p> 0.05). In order to determine relations between leisure perception and problem solving skill Pearson Correlation test was used. And it showed that there was the low level of positive relation between two scales. According to some demographic variables showed that there is significant differences between the level of leisure perception and problem solving skills and problem-solving skills has been found to affect the levels of leisure perception.

Keywords

University Student, Leisure Perception, Problem Solving

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