Modeling of the leisure time participation of university students receiving sport education

This research aims to explain a linear relationship model which expresses university students' leisure attitudes, leisure motivations, leisure negotiation, leisure involvement and participation in exercises, by using the planned behavior theory developed by Ajzen (1985) to determine the behavior participation model of university students. The target population of the study comprised the university students receiving sport education, while the sample comprised 709 students receiving education in Hitit University, Ondokuz Mayis University, Akdeniz University, Gaziosmanpasa University and Amasya University. The assessment tools used for the study model were; Leisure Time Exercise Questionnaire (Yerlisu-Lapa and Yagar, 2015), Leisure Involvement Scale (Gurbuz, Cimen and Aydin, 2015), Leisure Attitude Scale (Akgul and Gurbuz, 2011), Leisure Motivation Scale (Mutlu, 2008) and Leisure Negotiation Strategies Scale (Yerlisu-Lapa, 2014). In the analysis of the data descriptive statistics were used and the model was tested using the Hierarchical Regression Model analysis. As a result of the study it was determined that the leisure time involvement of the university students explained by their attitudes, motivations and negotiation. Also it was found that the students' leisure time involvement, negotiation, attitudes and motivations explained their participation in leisure time exercises. Key Words: Attitude, Exercise, Involvement, Leisure, Motivation, Negotiation.