This
scientific study was done in order to evaluate the leisure time management
ability and the related attitudes of disabled athletes. The average age is
25,06 ± 8,68, from the branches of athleticism, bocce, football, golfball,
table tennis, chess, Wheel chair basketball, tennis, volleyball, and swimming
in Osmaniye totally fifty disabled athletes four of them are physically
handicapped, fourteen of them are partially-sighted, thirteen of them are
hearing impaired, and nineteen of them are mentally disabled participated in
this study voluntarily. In order to collect data in this study, a two phased
survey was made with the help of the trainers and the companions of the
athletes. The first phase of the survey comprises of the questions predicting
the demographic features of the athletes (age, gender, sporting year, education
of family and self etc.). In the second phase of the survey the leisure time
management scale developped by those namely Wang, Kao, Huan, and Wu (2011) was
used. The scale's adaptation to Turkish and validity – reliability checks were
made by Akgül and Karaküçük (2015). The homogeneity and the analysis of the
variance of the data were tested by way of descriptive statistics and for the
binary comparisons Mann-Whitney U test, for the multiple comparisons Kruskal
Wallis-H test and for the detection of difference source Tamhane’sT2 test were
used. In conclusion, It can be stated that the studies related to the leisure
time management ability and the related attitudes of disabled athletes are
rather limited in the literature and male and female athletes differentiate
from each other in a meaningful way and generally the disabled athletes become
significantly different in the aspects of category, educational level, parental
educational level, and their sporting history and as the level of educational
and the sportive experience increase, the leisure time management becomes
better.
Subjects | Sports Medicine |
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Journal Section | Articles |
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Publication Date | December 17, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2017 Volume: 5 Issue: 4 |