YELKEN KANAT (DELTA KANAT) PİLOTLARININ OPTİMAL PERFORMANS DUYGU DURUMU VE BOŞ ZAMANDA SIKILMA ALGILARININ DEMOGRAFİK DEĞİŞKENLERE GÖRE İNCELENMESİ
AN INVESTIGATION ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE FLOW STATE AND THE LEISURE BOREDOM OF HANG-GLIDING PILOTS

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this research was to investigate relationships between leisure boredom and flow experience in hang-gliding pilots according to the demografic variables. Method: Sample group of the research consist of 314 ( female 59 =26.47 sd= 4.12 years; male 255 = 30.98 sd= 6.80) hang-gliding pilots from different categories (beginning, intermediate, pilot, experienced, instructor). The data collection tool used in the research consists of 3 sections. In the first section, a demographic questionnaire, in the second section “The Leisure Boredom Scale (BZSA) and the last section “The Dispositional Flow Scale Sort Form (DFS-2)” were used to data collection of hang-gliding pilots. Mann Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis H and Post-hoc Bonferonni tests were used in the evaluation of the data together with the descriptive statistics. Findings and Results: As a result of analysis significant differences were in terms of flow experience according to gender, age, live pilot and income, participant level and frequency, educational status, institutional variables (p<.05); significant differences were in terms of leisure boredom according to gender, age, live pilot and income, participant level and frequency, educational status, institutional variables (p<.05).

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