Investigation The Relationship Between The Perceived Health Outcomes of Recreation and Life Satisfaction

Aim: It was aimed to investigate the differences in perceived health outcomes of recreation and life satisfaction levels of leisure participants with regard to some variables and to examine the relationship between these two independent variables. Methods: The sample group of this study is 229 male and 98 females, totally 327 individuals who are participating in different leisure activities. Participants were asked to fill "Perceived Health Outcomes of Recreation Scale (PHORS)" (Yerlisu Lapa et al., 2017) and "Life Satisfaction Scale (LSS)" (Yetim, 1993). Independent Samples t-test and MANOVA were used to analyze the data. Pearson correlation coefficient was also calculated to test the relationship between the sub-dimensions of “PHORS” and “LSS”. Results: The t-test analysis indicated that there was no significant difference between the mean scores of "PHORS"s sub-dimensions and "LSS" with regard to gender and marital status. There was no significant difference between the mean scores of "PHORS"s sub-dimensions and "LSS" according to leisure activity preference field variable (p>.05). MANOVA results indicated that the main effect was statistically significant. ANOVA was conducted to test which dependent variable contributed to the multivariable significance. In terms of the main effect of physical activity participation status, there were significant differences in "Realization of Psychological Experience" sub-dimension. Physical activity participants reported higher mean scores than non-participants in this sub-dimension. In addition, there was a statistically significant positive correlation between the "PHORS" sub-dimension and "LSS" mean scores. Conclusion: Perceived health outcomes of physical activity participants were higher than the others in “Realization of Psychological Experience”. As a result, it could be concluded that individuals’ perceived health outcomes of recreation increases with the life satisfaction scores of the participants.