High School Students’ Leisure Time Activities
23 Dec 2019-Vol. 2, pp 7-24
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined high school students' leisure time preferences (N=437, 194 male, 44.4%; 243 female, 55.6%) while taking into account the school type, age and gender effect on their leisure preferences.
Abstract: The research paper examines high school students’ leisure time preferences (N=437, 194 male, 44.4%; 243 female, 55.6%) while taking into account the school type, age and gender effect on their leisure preferences. The study included mid and late adolescents whose age ranged from 14 to 19. The questionnaire consisted of socio-demographic and leisure time activity questions. The results point to significant differences between students in terms of culture-oriented, family-oriented and passively spent free time activities. A statistically significant difference was found in relation to spending time in a bar (passively-idly spent time) as older adolescents were more prone to it. A significant difference was noted in terms of attending church, sermons or lectures (religion-oriented free time) and actively doing sports (sport-oriented free time), where younger adolescents ascribed a higher importance to these activities as opposed to older adolescents. Gender was significant concerning family and home-oriented leisure activities, passively-idly spent activities, culture and sport-oriented activities. Future studies should incorporate a more comprehensive list of activities in order to provide an in-depth view of out-of-school activities and daily lifestyles.
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25 May 2007
TL;DR: Miliša et al. as mentioned in this paper obavljena na osnovi rezultata empirijskog istraživanja koje su proveli Mlinarević (2005) te Proroković i sur. (2006).
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss changes in the Croatian university students' leisure time acitivities based on a comparison of the data gathered in the youth researches in Croatia in 1999 in 2004.
Abstract: In this paper the authors discuss changes in the Croatian university students’ leisure time acitivities. The analysis is based on a comparison of the data gathered in the youth researches in Croatia in 1999 in 2004. Results showed that in a five year period the patterns of leisure time activities of Croatian university students statistically significantly changed, the change in relation between university students’ leisure time activities and their sex, age and residential status occurred. At the same time, the results confirmed there are stabile patterns of leisure time activities during five year period, these patterns are to a significant extent constituted by products and contents of mass culture. (IN CROATIAN: U ovom radu autorice analiziraju promjene u aktivnostima slobodnoga vremena hrvatskih studenata. Analiza se temelji na usporedbi podataka prikupljenih istraživanjima mladih u cijeloj Hrvatskoj 1999. i 2004. godine. Rezultati su pokazali da je u promatranom petogodisnjem razdoblju doslo do znatnih promjena u nekim segmentima provođenja slobodnoga vremena hrvatskih studenata, kao i u smjeru i jacini povezanosti obrazaca koristenja slobodnoga vremena sa spolom, dobi i rezidencijalnim statusom studenata. Istodobno, potvrđeno je postojanje stabilnih obrazaca provođenja slobodnoga vremena studenata u promatranom
razdoblju koje u najvecoj mjeri konstituiraju produkti i sadržaji masovne kulture.)
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