DETERMINING THE FACTORS WHICH CAN PREVENT RECREATIONAL PARTICIPAION OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WHO ATTEND TO THE DEPARTMENTS ACCORDING TO SPECIAL SKILL EXAMS

The aim of this study was to determine the factors that prevent the students who studies in the Physical Education and Sport, Musical Education and Painting Departments which request aptitude test, from participating into the recreational activities. Population of the research is constituted by total 1918 students who were studying at Gazi University in 2009-2010 Academic Years in Physical Education and Sport (1205), Musical Education (216) and Art Education Departments (497) which request aptitude test. Totally 498 volunteer participants constitute the research?s sample; 221 students from Physical Education and Sport, 116 students from Musical Education and 161 students from Art Education Departments. Working as a data collection tool and a total of 27 items of the six sub-dimensions "Leisure Barriers Scale" is used.6 subscales of the questionnaire used in the study to test gender differences in the independent samples t-test analysis was conducted based on the results; by gender "individual psychology in" the (p<0.05) were found to be significant differences . In addition, the ANOVA results, according to the welfare level (individual psychology and lack of interest) and section variables and leisure difficulty according to their (individual psychology, lack of friends and lack of interest) were statistically significant differences that were observed (p<0.05) . Consequently, the "lack of interest", "facilities/lack of service" and "individual psychology" factor in preventing the individuals to participate in recreational activities has been determined that the first three ranks.