Examining attitudes towards leisure activities of Footballtennis athletes

• Main Authors: Adem Pala, Mustafa Biner, Sercan Öncen, Mehmet Kargün
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Balikesir University 2016-01-01
• Series: Uluslararası Spor, Egzersiz ve Antrenman Bilimi Dergisi
• Subjects: -; leisure; fotbolltennis; attitude; boş zaman; futbol tenisi; tutum
• Online Access: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/useeabd/issue/21665/233136?publisher=useeabd

Aim: The purpose of this article is to analyses the attitudes toward leisure activities of football tennis players from different culture in developing and chancing world order.Material and Methods: In this research, a total of 65 of the 90 athletes, 26 were women and 36 were men, who participated in 2013 European Football Tennis Championship in Istanbul , took part voluntarily. In this research, Personal Information Form developed by Ragheb and Beard in 1982 and Leisure Attitude Scale translated into Turkish by Akgül and Gürbüz were used as data collection tool.Results: According to three sub-dimensions (cognitive, affective and psychological) of the survey, the analyses of t-test showed that there are no significant differences between gender and sub-dimensions (p>0,05). The results of ANOVA tests done to detect leisure attitude differences in different ages, there were no significant differences at every three sub-dimensions (p>0,05).Conclusion: This study show that football tennis players have high attitude for leisure activities.