@article{article_713101, title={EXAMINATION OF SCALES IN RECREATION AREA USED IN TURKEY}, journal={Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Bilimleri Dergisi}, volume={6}, pages={305–315}, year={2012}, author={Ağyar, Evren and Lapa, Tennur Yerlisu}, keywords={Leisure Time, Recreation, Validity and Reliability}, abstract={Recently leisure and recreation became significant concepts in our country. Departments wereestablished in various faculty and schools and academicians have made studies contributing to thefield and literature. Taking into consideration these studies, the aim of this research is to analyzescales in recreation field developed in our country or adapted to our language according to content,method, year, authors, journals and institutions. This study is a descriptive study and data collectionmethod is literature review. According to the results of the study 18 scales were detected amongwhich 12 were adapted and the remaining 6 scales were developed in our country. The firstadaptation study was conducted in 2004 and most adaptation and development studies wereconducted in 2006. In reliability studies, test re-test analysis, internal consistency with Cronbach’salpha and item analysis were examined. In order to examine validity, explanatory and confirmatoryfactor analyses were evaluated. Predominantly studies were presented in international sportcongresses, consisted of master and doctoral dissertations and published in national sport sciencesjournals. Culturally adapted scales contribute to literature by making cross-cultural comparisons anddevelop new scales specific to the culture. Development of new scales is expected to enrichrecreation field academically}, number={3}, publisher={Nigde Omer Halisdemir University}