Investigation of Serious Leisure Time Perceptions of Street Basketball Players in Terms of Different Variables

Nihal AKOĞUZ YAZICI

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The aim of this study is to investigate the serious leisure perceptions of people with different characteristics who participate in street basketball. The study group consists of a total of 278 participants taking a part in street basketball activities in the outdoor basketball courts on the coastline of Samsun, Ordu, Giresun, Trabzon, Rize and Artvin provinces situated in the Black Sea region of Turkey. A survey form, prepared by using a personal information form and a serious leisure scale-short form, was used to obtain the research data. Designed by Gould et al. (2011), the Serious Leisure Scale was adapted into Turkish by Isik et al. (2020). The SPSS 26.0 statistical package program was used in all statistical calculations and the findings were considered significant at the p<0.05 level. As a result of the analyses, some significant differences were found between the sub-dimensions of the serious leisure scale and the participants' age, job status, levels of participation, sports spans, and leisure intervals.


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