Women's health beliefs on sportive recretional activities

In this study, we examine,by referring to Konya case,health beliefs of women with regard to sportive recreational activities. The sample of the research is composed of 407 volunteers. The first part of data collection instrument of the research is composed of expressions which aim to identify demographical features of the participants. The second part is composed of application of Health Belief Scale on Sportive Recreational Activities (SRAHBS), which is developed for this research, to the participants. During data analysis, qualitative statistics were employed in order to find out distribution of participants? demographical information. Initially, Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test was applied in order to find out normal distribution conformity of variables of health belief on sportive recreational activities such as age, working status, having child, education, income, years of living in the city, participation in sportive recreational activities and participation types. Following that, Mann-Whitney U, Spearman Correlation Analysis and Kruskal Wallis (Chi-Square) Test out of non-parametric tests were applied depending on comparison manner of the variables. Findings obtained at the end of research show that nonworking women have higher self-efficacy points compared to working women. The research has suggested that nonworking women got their highest points in Physical Benefit sub-dimension while working women got their highest in Perceived Seriousness and Physical Benefit sub-dimensions. We have found out that perceived barriers and psychosocial benefit sub-dimensions have significant correlation with women?s having children or not, and that those women with children have higher perceived barriers and psychosocial benefit points compared to those who do not have children. It has been suggested that perceived barriers and psychosocial benefit sub-dimension points have statistically significant positive correlation with the age of participants. No statistically significant correlation has been observed between educational status of the women and their choice of type of participation in sportive recreational activities. The number of women who volunteer to participate in these activities individually increased in direct proportion to the increase in educational status. Keywords: Health, Health Belief, Leisure Time, Recreation, Sportive Recreational Activities.