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2. İnternational Conference on Tourism: Theory, Current Issues and Research, İstanbul, Turkey, 4 - 06 November 2016, pp.41-42, (Full Text)
The purpose of this research is to examine the leisure obstacles and level of perceived freedom of the university students according to the different variables. 250 university students in total, 174 (69,0%) of whom are "Males" and 78 (31,0%) 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 students studying at Istanbul University Faculty of Sports Sciences. In order to identify the leisure obstacles of the participants ""An Obstacles of Leisure Scale", which has been developed by Alexandris and Carroll (1997) and adopted into Turkish by Karaküçük and Gürbüz (2007); and in order to identify the level of perceived freedom of the participants "Perceived Freedom in Leisure Scale”, which has been developed by Witt and Ellis (1985) and adopted into Turkish by Yerlisu Lapa and Ağyar (2011) 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. According to the gender variable, no significant difference has been identified in the sub-dimensions of the obstacles of leisure scale and perceived freedom in leisure scale (p>0.05). While there is a significant difference in all sub-dimensions of the 2nd International Conference on Tourism: Theory, Current Issues and Research November 04-06, 2016, Istanbul-TURKEY 42 perceived freedom in leisure scale (p<0.05), no significant difference has been found in the sub-dimensions of the obstacles of leisure scale (p>0.05) according to age. In conclusion, it has been identified that while there are no differences between the leisure obstacles according to the gender of the participants, the level of perceived freedom increases as the age increases.
Keywords: The Leisure Obstacles, Level Of Perceived Freedom, The University Students