Investigation of Leisure Perceptions of Individuals in Outdoor Sports

Autor: Burak Gürer, Ebru Caymaz
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure. 2:255-265
ISSN: 2520-8691
2520-8683
DOI: 10.1007/s41978-018-0021-y
Popis: The aim of this study is to examine the perceptions of the individuals about outdoor sports who actively participate in outdoor sports in their leisure time. This study is crucial due to the lack of research on this particular subject. Target population of the study involves those who participated in outdoor sports between the years of 2015–2016. The sample of the study includes 319 (180 Male, 139 Female) people who are interested in various outdoor sports in Gaziantep, Istanbul, Osmaniye, Balikesir and Antalya in Turkey. Grasping the Meaning of Leisure Scale which was adapted to Turkish by Gurbuz, Ozdemir and Karakucuk (Gurbuz et al. 2007) and reformed by Esteve et al. (Leisure Studies, 18(2), 79–91, Esteve et al. 1999) is used in this study. Statistical differences between gender, age, educational status and experience in outdoor sports variables (p
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