Relationships between participation in recreational activities and leadership behavior: a study on the secondary school students

Year 2013, Volume: 15 Issue: 2, 100 - 106, 08.08.2013

Umut Basoglu

Abstract

Recreation is defined as the optional and voluntary activities that are carried out individually or in a team in
leisure times other than obligatory ones, and that give satisfaction to the individuals, by eliminating the adverse
effects of the industrial society. As is seen, recreation becomes a dynamic lifestyle and culture element which
remains widespread in the modern society. Emphasizing the concept of recreation and its important role on
personal development in general on leadership attitudes in particular, it is aimed to reveal the effects of the
participation of the secondary students in the recreational activities on the leadership attitudes. To reach this
end, a survey is conducted on 289 secondary school's students in Istanbul, Bursa and Izmir. Data is submitted to
factor, frequencies, reliability and ANOVA analyses through SPSS 13.0 demo version. The findings reveal that
students who are engaging in sports activities have higher scores on transformational leadership traits while
students who are not engaging such activities mainly exhibit transactional leadership behaviors. Moreover, the
findings reveal that the scores for both transformational and transactional leadership behaviors of students who
are engaging sports activities are higher than the scores of students who are not carrying out these activities.
The results underline the fact that participation in sports activities as recreational activities plays an important
role on the development of leadership attitudes for secondary school students.

Keywords

Recreation; personal development; leadership

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