The development of techonogy in human life significantly affects the life-quality of the people and cause rapidly increasing inactivity. That is why the importance of developing the quality of sportive recreative activities today is in main purpose. This study was carried out in order to evaluate the student’s regular participation in sportive and recreative activities and events. The research group consists of 300 students: 184 (63.3%) female and 116 (38.7%) male students who completed their studies at Kocaeli University School of Physical Education and Sports and Education Faculty and their participation was voluntary. The survey datas are based on a written questionnaire consists of 38 questions which was studied by Ergün (2008). “The participation rate of university youth in sportive and recreative activities”. After by the SPSS 20.0 computer program he evaluated the obtained datas of the former questionnaires and that is how he was able to get the ratio of the frequencies and the percentages. From 300 students who participated in the survey 226 (88.7%) claimed that they did sport during their childhood and 45.3% of them had enough information about sports in their physical education classes and continued playing sport. 56.7% of the student stated that they do some kind of sports in sport centres: 22% took up sport as freetime activity, 17.3% do sport in specific sport clubs and 4% plays in school team. The reasons why they took up sports are different: 12% of the student wanted to have a healthy lifestyle, 8.3% wished a more active life and tried to avoid monotony of everyday life, 14.0% wanted to loose weight, 10.3% looked for the experience of success, 3.3% wished to be the member of new groups and gain new friends and 12% of student stated they decideded to participate in sport activities to avoid being antisocial and just imply leave their home. When these results are taken into consideration it can be said the cooperation of the students in terms of increasing the interest of other students is essential and it could lead to the develpment of the social, sport and cultural life of the university.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Subjects | Sports Medicine |
Journal Section | Original Article |
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Publication Date | January 30, 2018 |
Acceptance Date | June 23, 2018 |
Published in Issue | Year 2018 Volume: 3 Issue: 1 |