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European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science ISSN: 2501 - 1235 ISSN-L: 2501 - 1235 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu Volume 3 │ Issue 12 │ 2017 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1126659 DETERMINING THE INTERESTS AND PARTICIPATION LEVELS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO SPORTIVE RECREATION ACTIVITIES Harun Ayari İstanbul Gelişim University, High School of Physical Education and Sports Recreation, Gelişim University, İstanbul, Turkey Abstract: Reduction of working hours and increase of the spare time with technological development provided people to stay the level of education and income. Therefore, inadequate physical activity based on the industry has become one of the biggest problems of people and societies in our day. As a result of them the demand of recreational activities has increased. It is important for our future to educate young people about these issues. This study which is conducted for participation of college students to sportive recreation activities and determining their interests has been done with the aim of contribution to our future. Target population of study is 245 students (121 girls and 129 boys) that are randomly chosen and studying in Academy of Kırkpınar Physical Education and Sports and the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in Trakya University. The data of the research were collected as a survey. The obtained data were analyzed on SPSS 15 program. Chi-square test, frequency and crosstabs analyses were used. The proportion of the students who participated the research was %48 of girl and %52 of boy. There were 126 participants from Kırkpınar College of Physical Education and Sports and 119 participants from Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. In total, 300 surveys were used for this research. 245 of them were taken under review. Most of the students take part in the activities for their health and generally they prefer being with their groups of friends. Keywords: leisure, recreation, sportive recreation, sport, university Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 448 Harun Ayar DETERMINING THE INTERESTS AND PARTICIPATION LEVELS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TO SPORTIVE RECREATION ACTIVITIES 1. Introduction Technological development made societies economically more proper and this has caused the machines replace time that people have to spare for work. By this means, recreative activities have gained more importance today in order to people spend time left over work and physical needs relaxing and joyful. Social and cultural life changed with the Industrial Revolution revealed the term leisure time. During this leisure time, the people who want to spend the time effectively need to make their wants and programs properly. While Godbey defines leisure time as living in relative freedom from the external compulsive forces of one's culture and physical environment (Godbey, 1999:12). Wichasin (2007:21) defines it as freedom from constraint, opportunity to choose, time left over work, free time after obligatory social duties have been met. Recuperating and sustaining body and spiritual well-being, where human intensive workload is endangered or adversely affected by routinely lifestyle or adverse environmental effects can also provide pleasure and harmfulness, personal satisfaction, independent and unconnected free time remaining at the time reserved for work and compulsory needs, voluntary and voluntary individual or group activities (Karaküçük, 1995). Sport has two kinds of activities as a recreation activity. First of them is passive participation as a spectator and second one is active participation by having a part in it. Whereas watching a contest or training of any branch of sports is passive recreative participation, watching the same contest or training at home with television is passive recreative activity. However, there are some differences between them like the inequality of place, excitement and reaction. Passive recreative activity can change according to apprehension and habits. When it is considered to people gravitate to some of the branches and they tend to be player of them although they were just spectators before, it is clear that transition from passive participation to activity is inspirer. Today, every student spending most of their time in class, laboratories or on desk need to participate recreative activities. Therefore, the universities activity programs have to create opportunities for recreation and rest so that student can get over the stress of modern life and school studies. The necessary effort, designing and programming should be done for this. For viewing / downloading the full article, please access the following link: https://oapub.org/edu/index.php/ejep/article/view/1310 European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science - Volume 3 │ Issue 12 │ 2017 449