Yetişkin kent halkının belediyelerin serbest zaman eğitimi ile rekreasyon etkinliklerinin sunumuna ve yaşam kalitesine etkisine ilişkin görüşleri (Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi örneği)
Özet
This research is a descriptive study which aims to evaluate opinions of adults who have attended the activities related to recreation provided by Ankara Municipality. The participants of the study are 22,760 people at 12 Hanımlar Lokali (Woman café) ve bir Aile Yaşam Merkezi (Family Recreation Center). The group which is identified as representative is composed of 381 people. A survey that is prepared by the researcher was conducted with representative group. The compiled data were analyzed via SPSS. Median, mode ( ) and percentages (%), are employed in the study. For the answers given by two groups t-test was employed, and for multiple group comparison Anova, to identify the groups that cause difference Tukey HSD Multiple Comparison and LSD Multiple Comparison Tests are used.Findings of the study suggest that participants of the study are mostly housewives, retirees who have good socio-economic level, majority of the group participate in physical activities, participants are pleased with the presentation of activities , participants evaluate recreation activities with positively, participants have positive emotions, they choose them because the activities provided by municipality are cost-effective, convenient for transportation, and the trainers have the knowledge of their fields, the opportunities are good, there is a good variety of activities, participating recreation activities increase life quality and if they participate more, life quality will increase more.Moreover benefiting and expectations from recreation services is related to the age, gender, educational background, income and profession of the participants. Expectations and evaluations of the participants differiates according to the time spent benefiting from municipality services. There has been found a meaningful diffrerence between the choices of participants? recreational activities and the total length of the time and number of days during which they participated to these activities.