The Study of the Relationship between Individual Perception of Loneliness and Socialization with Recreational Activities: A Research on University Students

Abstract

Recreational activity is an important means of socialization, as well as providing psychological relief in order to achieve socialization and to overcome loneliness. Accordingly, the aim of the study is to analyze the relationship between the perception of loneliness and socialization with recreational activities. Another aim of this study is to analyze whether there is a statistically significant difference between the demographic variables and the sense of loneliness of the individuals. In this context, relations between variables were tested using the data based on the questionnaire applied to university students studying at state universities in Konya and the theoretical hypotheses were tested. In addition, in the analysis of the research, descriptive statistics, difference tests were used to determine the difference between demographic variables and loneliness perception and correlation analysis was used to determine the relation between loneliness variable and the variable of socialization with recreational activities. As a result of the analyses, it was detected that there was a positive and meaningful relationship between loneliness perception and the variable of socialization with recreational activities. In this respect, as mentioned in the findings, it was determined that the individuals who have perceptions of loneliness are trying to increase their level of socialization by participating in recreational activities.