LEISURE TIME-PHYSICAL ACTIVITY CONSTRAINTS AT HIGH SCHOOLS

The aim of the study was to investigate the constraints that prevented the young people who studied at high schools from participating in leisure time physical activities. The population of the study was composed of the students who studied at high schools in Afyonkarahisar Province. Method of population selection and sample recruitment was purposive sampling. 783 volunteers participated in the study. It was seen that some of the answers were invalid and therefore, sample was made up by 750 participants [14-18 age (x=15.77, sd=1.05), 64.9% (487) of them female students]. As the data collection tool; Leisure Time-Physical Activity Constraints (LTPA-C) developed by Öcal (2012) was used. The scale is composed of 8 subscales: body perception, facilities, income, family, skill perception, time, willpower and society. It is a 6-point Likert type scale and measures participants? physical activity participation status in their leisure times. For the analyses of the data; descriptive statistics, univariate analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Independent Samples T-Test were used. According to the study findings; it was found out that there were significant differences among the participants in terms of the scores of LTPA-C as far as participants? genders, parental educational status, maternal professional status, school types and grades (p<0.05).