标题：A study on attitudes towards free time activities: Edirne city center example Serbest zaman aktivitelerine yönelik tutumların incelenmesi: Edirne il merkezi örneği
摘要：The aim of this study is evaluating the people’s attitudes for free time activities. In order to determine whether the free time activity attitude differs according to the sociodemographic structures of the people, sampling method was applied to a total of 235 persons, 115 women and 120 men living in Edirne city center. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with individuals in various age groups living in Edirne province center.In accordance with this aim, in order to state whether people’s attitudes for free time activities change or not according to their socio-demographic structure, “Free Time Attitudes Scale” which is developed by “Raghep G” and “Beard” (1982), Turkish validity of which and confidence of which has been proved by Gürbüz,Akgül (2010) was reorganized. The Cronbach Alpha reliability of scale was found to be 0,966. It is believed that your scale is reliable because this value is close to 1. As a method in this study, beside the descriptive statistics about socio-demographic structure of people of Edirne, factor analysis has been applied to free time activities attitudes scale. As a result of dimension reduction, the three sub-dimensions which are mental and social benefit, emotional benefit and physical treatment, has been achieved. Also, whether there is a difference in these three sub-dimensions according to people’s socio-demopgraphic structure has been examined by using “Mann Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis” tests. Consequently, when we look at the gender and civil status of the people, no meaningful difference is seen. When we look at the examination results’ difference levels, according to individuals’ ages, a meaningful difference in emotinal benefit has been observed.
