The impact of leisure curriculum on leisure skills of the male secondary school students in Mashhad

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Abdolhamid Kam ¹ , Maghsood Amin Khandaghi ² , Ali Mashhadi ³

1 - 4 کارشناس ارشد روان‌شناسی بالینی، واحد ایلام، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، ایلام، ایران
2 - 4 کارشناس ارشد روان‌شناسی بالینی، واحد ایلام، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، ایلام، ایران
3 - 4 کارشناس ارشد روان‌شناسی بالینی، واحد ایلام، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، ایلام، ایران

Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2015-09-23

Keywords: leisure awareness, Self-regulation, self-awareness, Curriculum, Leisure Time, decision making, social skills,

Abstract :

Because of the importance of adulthood and the vast amount of leisure time during this period, the leisure curriculum has been highly noticed. Since leisure activities are of the necessities of students' life, this research was conducted to study about the effect of leisure curriculum on Leisure Skills.The research method was quasi-experimental and one group pretest -posttest design was used. The statistical population was composed of 2996 male secondary school students in Mashhad who had participated in recreation programs during the summer. The sample size consisted of 268 student were selected by Kukran formula. Cluster random sampling was used, too. To collect the data, a questionnaire (including126 questions) was utilized to measure the skills of leisure time including self-awareness, leisure awareness, decision making, social skills and the self-regulatory. The validity of the instrument was obtained through content validity and its reliability was measured by Cronbach's alpha as 0/76. For data analysis, t-test was used. The results indicated that leisure curriculum significantly increased the students' leisure skills (p>0.000). in other words, leisure curriculum has a great impact on students' leisure skills.

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