Research in Sports Science

Investigation of Opinions about Meaning of Leisure and Smartphone Addiction to Physical Education and Sports Students

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Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Yüksekokulu, Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Anabilimdalı

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Dumlupınar Üniversitesi Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Yüksekokulu, Rekreasyon Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi

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Gazi Üniversitesi Spor Bilimleri Fakültesi, Spor Yöneticiliği Bölümü Öğretim Üyesi

RISS 2017; 7: 1-11
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The aim of this study was to examine opinions about meaning of leisure and smartphone addiction to physical education and sports students in terms of various variable. In accordance with this purpose, a total of 183 physical education and sports students in total, 50 (27.3%) of whom are “Females” and 133 (72.7%) of whom are “Males”, selected by convenience sampling method have voluntarily participate in the research study. Survey method was used in this study. The sample of the study consists of students studying at Dumlupınar University's Physical Education and Sports. In study in addition to personal information form prepared by the researchers, in order to determine opinions about meaning of leisure of participants, the meaning of leisure scale which was developed by Esteve et al. (1999) and adapted into Turkish by Gürbüz et al. (2007) and so as to determine opinions about smartphone addiction to participants, the smartphone addiction scale which was developed by Kwon et al. (2013) and carried out validity and reliability on Turkish by Demirci et al. (2014) was used. In this study, in the evaluation part of the data obtained descriptive statistic methods such as frequency and percentage were used for the distribution of personal informations of the participants and values of skewness and kurtosis of data with Kolmogorov Smirnov normality test has been checked to identify whether data had normal distribution. It has been determined that the resulting data have a normal distribution. In the statistical analysis of the data, correlation analysis methods were used to determine the relationship between the descriptive statistical models as well as the t-test, the ANOVA test and the measurement tools used (p=0,05). Consequently; Age, welfare level, and class variables were factors that affected the meaning of leisure and there were a meaningful relationship between the meaning of leisure and the use of smartphones.

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