2. İnternational Conference on Tourism: Theory, Current Issues and Research, İstanbul, Turkey, 4 - 06 November 2016, pp.52-53
The purpose of this research is to examine who are participating recreative activities of the level of life and leisure satisfaction of the individual according to the different variables. 220 public employees in total, 150 (68,2%) of whom are ‘’Males’’ and 70 (31,8%) of whom are ‘’Females’’ selected by random sampling have voluntarily attended the research in line with such purpose. Survey model has been used in the study. The sample of the study consists of municipal employees who are working at Istanbul Avcılar Municipal. In order to identify the leisure satisfaction of the participants ‘’Leisure Satisfaction Scale’’,which has been developed by Beard ve Ragheb (1980 ) and adopted into Turkish by Karlı and friends (2008); and in order to identify the level of life satisfacion of the participants ‘’Life Satisfaction Scale”, which has been developed by Diener and friends (1985) and adopted into Turkish by Köker (1991) have been used along with the personal information form prepared by the researcher as a data collection tool in the research. Percent (%) and frequency methods have been utilized to identify the distribution of the personal information of the participants, and Shapiro-Wilks normality test has been applied to identify whether data had normal distribution, and Mann-Whitney U and Kruskall Wallis tests have been applied to determine the significant differences after it has been determined that the data were suitable to the nonparametric test conditions. 2nd International Conference on Tourism: Theory, Current Issues and Research November 04-06, 2016, Istanbul-TURKEY 53 According to the gender variable, it has been identified significant differences in subdimensions of the leisure satisfaction (p<0.05). There is no significant difference difference with income in all sub-dimensions of the leisure satisfaction (p>0.05). While there is no significant difference in all sub-dimensions of the level of life satisfaction (p>0.05), significant difference has been found in the sub-dimensions of the leisure satisfaction (p<0.05) . In conclusion, it has been identified that there are significant differences between level of the leisure satisfaction according to the gender of the participants. It can be said the level of income increases , the level of life satisfaction is increases.
Keywords: The Individuals Recreative Activities, The Level Of Life, Leisure Satisfaction