Examination of leisure constraints of poli̇ce officers according to some variables (Case of Kutahya city)

The aim was to examine the leisure constraints of police officers' in terms of some variables according to student perception. 113 male 38 female 151 police officers in total, selected by coincidence method participated in this research. The data form prepared within the scope of the study consists of two parts. In the first part, a personal information form to identify the demographics of the participants; in the second part, "Leisure Constraints Scale", which was developed by Alexandris and Carroll (1997) and adapted by Karaküçük and Gürbüz (2007), was used to determine the constraints in participating recreational activities according to participant perception. The Turkish form of the scale consists of 27 items; (a) individual psychology (6 items) (b) the lack of knowledge (3 items) (c) facilities/services (4 items) (d) accessibility (4 items), (e) lack of partners (3 items), (f) time and lack of interests (7 items). SPSS 22.0 program was used for the analysis of the data and for the comparison of the variables. As a result of this research, there were significant differences between participants' gender, marital status and places lived as longest period and leisure constraints scores (p <0,05). On the contrary, there were not significant differences between age, working years, leisure activities and leisure constraints scores (p>0,05).