Examining Tourism Students’ Cognitive Structures towards Leisure Time and Recreation Concepts through Word Association Test
Abstract
This
research is aimed to reveal cognitive structures about leisure time and
recreation related concepts of students who are studying in tourism programs at
Istanbul Arel University and to determine misconseptions. A deliberate sampling method was used in the
research using qualitative research method. According to this sampling method,
63 (42 female, 21 male) students who
study at İstanbul Arel University, Vocational School Culinary and Tourist
Guidance Programs have been applied Word Association Test (WAT). According to
WAT, students are given key concepts of leisure time and recreation, and they
are asked to write the words that these key concepts brings to their minds
within a certain period of time. The answers given by the students to the
concepts of leisure time and recreation were created frequency tables and
concept maps using the NVivo program. As a result, 523 responses were collected
from the students as total, leisure time and recreation responses. Leisure
cognitive perceptions of students are more dominant than recreation. The
concept of leisure time is mostly associated with "resting" and
"reading" words. "Traveling", "reading",
"listening to music" and "walking" are associated with the
concept of recreation. Finally, It is seen that recreation usually has a
cognitive perception based on activities when leisure time has a comprehensive
cognitive perception in terms of tourism students.
Keywords
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Tourism (Other)
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Publication Date
June 30, 2018
Submission Date
March 21, 2018
Acceptance Date
May 27, 2018
Published in Issue
Year 2018 Volume: 4 Number: 1