EXAMINATION OF LIFE SATISFACTION AND LEISURE SATISFACTION LEVELS OF INDIVIDUALS PARTICIPATING SPORT ACTIVITIES IN THEIR LEISURE TIME

Abstract

This research has aimed to find out the life fulfillment of the individuals who spare their leisure time by doing sports and their fulfillment in terms of leisure time activities by analyzing independent variables. It has been conducted in Ümitköy facility of Sportive Kulübü . The study group consists of 80 male and 170 female participants who were chosen among the members of Sportive Life club which is in business in the city of Ankara. Satisfaction with Life-Scale- SWLS which has been designed as one-dimensional by Diener, Emmons, Larsen and Griffin 1985 , whose validity and reliability have been tested by Durak, Durak and Gençöz 2010 has been used. Besides, Leisure Satisfaction Scale, which has been designed by Beard and Ragheb 1980 , was brought into Turkish literature after the reliability and validity studies by Karlı et al. in 2008, made up of 39 questions and six other subdimensions, whose internal consistency reliability is .92 as a result of KMO sample measurement and analysis of significance is p

Keywords

• Life satisfaction,leisure satisfaction,sport

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