Identifying the barriers to the participation of the students in Batman University Physical Education and Sports School departments in recreation activities

In this study, it is aimed to investigate the factors that prevent students from Batman University School of Physical Education and Sports from participating in recreational activities according to various variables. Research Universe; The are 271 students studying in Batman University School of Physical Education and Sports in the fall semester of 2020-2021.A total of 271 students, 187 males and 84 females, who studied the sample group in the undergraduate programs of the School of Physical Education and Sports (Physical Education and Sports Teaching, Coaching Education and Sports Management, normal and evening education) participated in the study voluntarily. As a data collection tool in the study, "Leisure Barriers Scale-18 (SZEÖ)" adapted to Turkish by Gürbüz et al. (2012) and developed by Alexandris and Carroll (1997) was used. This scale used consists of 18 items and 6 sub- dimensions such as individual psychology, lack of information, facility, lack of friends, time, and lack of interest were identified with the scale.The expressions in the scale used are graded as "Absolutely Unimportant (1)", "Unimportant (2)", "Important (3)" and "Very Important (4)" as 4-point Likert type. In the interpretation of the scores obtained from the scale items; Between 1.00-1.75: is considered as absolutely unimportant, between 1.76, 2.50: is insignificant, between 2.51-3.25: is important, and between 3.26-4.00 is very important. As a result of the research; It has been determined that students studying in the departments of higher education consider the obstacles to spend their leisure time important. The obstacles to students' taking advantage of their leisure time differ significantly in all sub-dimensions in terms of gender, class, marital status, age, and whether they make use of their leisure time increased from their education or not. According to the variable of the department they are studying, it was determined that the sub-dimensions of the obstacles for physical education and sports college students to use their leisure time did not change significantly.