A case study on defining leisure time motivation of recreation students

The aim of this study is to reveal if the recreation students of a state university participating leisure time activities and to examine this via different demographic variants. It has been expected that recreation students should have high motivation on leisure time especially because of the education they receive.The survey which is used in the investigation part of the study consists of two parts. In the first part, there were demographic questions, in the second part "Leisure Time Motivation Seale", which was developed by Pelletier and his friends in 1991, was translated into Turkish and these were used in the survey. In the recreation department there are 70 students and 55 of them participated into the survey.In conclusion, the co-efficient (cronebach alpha) of the scale reliability was 0,77. Additionally, there were sonic statistical differences among the various demographic variants when 0,05 was searched on significance level in respect of leisure time motivation points of recreation students. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd.