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

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the recreation obstacles of teacher candidates in terms of different variables. A total of 178 teacher candidates (male: 108, female:70) from Faculty of Education at Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University voluntarily took part in the present study to meet this purpose in 2018. 94 of the participants were from the department of computer education and instructional technology, and the rest of them was from the department of psychological counseling and guidance. The instrument named “Leisure Time Obstacle Scale” was used during the study, which was developed by Alexandris and Carroll (1997), adopted to Turkish context by Gürbüz and Karaküçük (2007), and revised by Gürbüz et al., (2007). Independent sample t-test and One-way ANOVA tests were used to answer the research questions. Tukey test was employed as a posthoc analysis to figure out the differences among the categories. Consequently, a nonsignificant result was observed for the subfactors of LTOS depending on the variables including gender, class level, and the sports branch being interested. However, a significant difference was found at the friend and time subfactors of the LTOS in terms of department category (p