Revista Europea de Biología Experimental Acceso abierto

Abstracto

The role of sports and physical education in filling University students leisure time

Keivan Moradian and Payam Moradian

The present research considers the sport role in filling student's leisure time at Razi (Kermanshah), Bou Ali (Hamadan) and Kurdistan state Universities. The research was in descriptive from and carried out as field study. The statistical population in the research was the students of the 3 universities in academic year (2010-11). The statistical sample was 370 male students at these universities. The researcher-conducted questionnaire used to get the required data. It should be noted that the validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the related professors and its reliability was, also, confirmed using Cronbakh alpha test Coefficient (a=0.92). The results show that 21.49% take exercise in their leisure time which ranked second 26.61% after reading in the leisure time. 40.66% of the individuals would take exercise for the sake of their physical and psychological health. The findings, also, show that the individuals wouldn't take part at the universities physical education programs due to lake of sport facilities, the authority's inconsideration toward sport and lake of respective work force at the universities.