Abstract
Article history: Received June 28, 2012 Received in Revised form August, 26, 2012 Accepted 29 August 2012 Available online 11 September 2012 This paper presents an investigation on deaf students' interests in spending their leisure times. We design a questionnaire and distribute among all deaf students who are enrolled in high schools in two provinces of Iran. The questionnaire consists of three parts, in the first part, we ask female and male deaf students about their interests in various entertainment activities in Likert scale. In terms of gender, we find out that walking inside or outside house is number one favorite exercise for female students while male students mostly prefer to walk on the streets. Although male students prefer to go biking or running activities, female students prefer to go for picnic or similar activities. This could be due to limitations on female for running or biking inside cities. While going to picnic with members of family or friends is the third popular activity for male students, stretching exercises is third most popular activity among female students. Breathing exercise is the fourth most popular activity among both male and female students. The second part of the survey is associated with the barriers for having no exercise among deaf students. According to our survey, while lack of good attention from public and ordinary people on exercising deaf students is believed to be number one barrier among male students, female students blame lack of transportation facilities as the most important barrier. However, both female and male students believe these two items are the most important factors preventing them to exercise. Lack of awareness for exercising deaf students and lack of good recreational facilities are the third most important barriers among male and female students. © 2012 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Highlights
Leisure plays an important role on releasing stress and refreshing people's bad energies (Green et al, 1990; Schoenborn & Barnes, 2002; Leitner & Leitner, 2004; Torkildsen, 2005). Sjolie and Thuen (2002) performed an investigation on both rural and urban adolescents spent more time on sedentary activities, such as watching TV/video and playing TV/data-games, than on normal physical activity.They found no differences between the two groups based on activity patterns
We find out that walking inside or outside house is number one favorite exercise for female students while male students mostly prefer to walk on the streets
Male students prefer to go biking or running activities, female students prefer to go for picnic or similar activities
Summary
Leisure plays an important role on releasing stress and refreshing people's bad energies (Green et al, 1990; Schoenborn & Barnes, 2002; Leitner & Leitner, 2004; Torkildsen, 2005). Sjolie and Thuen (2002) performed an investigation on both rural and urban adolescents spent more time on sedentary activities, such as watching TV/video and playing TV/data-games, than on normal physical activity. Sjolie and Thuen (2002) performed an investigation on both rural and urban adolescents spent more time on sedentary activities, such as watching TV/video and playing TV/data-games, than on normal physical activity They found no differences between the two groups based on activity patterns. According to multiple regression analysis, urban area, female gender and distance walked or cycled to school forecasted increased walking or cycling to activities Their results confirmed other studies on adolescents, indicating that much more time was spent on sedentary rather than on physical activity. They investigated the ambiguity of words and signs as a resource or obstacle in group discussions They studied how deaf and hearing students aged 13–15 years elaborated on ecological concepts through dialogue.
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