Determining factors that prevent class teachers from participating in recreational activities

The aim of this study is to determine the factors that prevent class teachers from participating in recreational activities. The universe of the research consists of 398 people, 155 women and 243 male class teachers, who work in Batman province. In the study, descriptive scanning method was used. The data collection tool used in the study consists of 2 parts. In the first part, questions were asked to determine the demographic information and recreational trends of the participants. In the second part, the “free time barriers” scale developed by Alexandris and Carroll (1997) consists of 20 items and 6 subdimensions. SPSS 22 IBM statistical package program was used in the evaluation and calculation of the obtained data. The data are summarized as mean and standard deviation. The data were tested with onesample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and the data were found to be normal distribution. The differences between independent groups were analyzed by T-test and one way ANOVA test. The study factors that inhibit participation in recreational activities of classroom teachers that we have demographic information in the survey we applied to study the differences between the total scores according to the length of the sub variables were revealed.