Research Regarding Spending Free Time of Students Participating In the Physical Education - Professional Conversion Program

Abstract

The study aims to identify the features related to the leisure budget, the factors that limit its value, as well as general and sports activities related to leisure, for a niche sample, represented by the teachers pursuing professional conversion courses in physical education specialization. The statistical calculation and the interpretation of the obtained data validate the working hypotheses, regarding the variety of given answers and the fidelity of the features measured by the questionnaire we made. The diversity of the items allowed the measurement of the opinions of those investigated using the Likert scale, for multiple aspects of the researched problem, as well as a highlighting of the existing differences according to the sex for the measured characteristics. The paper synthesizes defining features for the issue of leisure, in the context of changes in the current socio-economic environment, it is appropriate to continue the study on other representative samples of the population.