Examining The Factors That May Restrict Teacher Candidates To Access Recreational Activities

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the recreation obstaclesof teacher candidates in terms of different variables. A total of 178 teachercandidates (male: 108, female:70) from Faculty of Education at Erzincan BinaliYıldırım University voluntarily took part in the present study to meet this purposein 2018. 94 of the participants were from the department of computer educationand instructional technology, and the rest of them was from the department ofpsychological counseling and guidance. The instrument named “Leisure TimeObstacle Scale” was used during the study, which was developed by Alexandris andCarroll (1997), adopted to Turkish context by Gürbüz and Karaküçük (2007), andrevised by Gürbüz et al., (2007). Independent sample t-test and One-way ANOVAtests were used to answer the research questions. Tukey test was employed as aposthoc analysis to figure out the differences among the categories. Consequently, anonsignificant result was observed for the subfactors of LTOS depending on thevariables including gender, class level, and the sports branch being interested.However, a significant difference was found at the friend and time subfactors of theLTOS in terms of department category (p<.05). Furthermore, a significant differencewas also observed at friend subfactor of LTOS for achievement level. Finally, asignificant difference was also detected from the analysis results for the informationsubfactor of LTOS in terms of sports branch being interested.