Recreation activities of urban school going children and their views about it
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20-08-19
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Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani
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One hundred and fifty urban school going children (11- 13 yrs old) were randomly selected from ten colonies of Parbhani city (MS) for studying the recreational activities of urban school going children and their views about it. The data pertaining to the study were collected by personally interviewing the urban school going children and their parents, based on structured and open ended interview schedule cum checklist and also by using the socio-economic status scale. Irrespective of gender, a higher percentage of urban school going children were recorded to have more leisure time on weekends for carrying out various recreational activities. A large majority of the sample children were found to be more involved in viewing programmes of different channels on TV, as well as in usage of smartphones for playing video games, listening to movie songs and the activities related to drawing and painting as compared to their involvement in games, sports and other constructive activities. While expressing about the benefits of recreational activities, relatively a higher percentage (77- 100 %) of the school going children stated that due to their involvement in various recreational activities, they experienced sense of joy, raised lost of vigour, improved their health status and also it helped in enhancing their overall development. Whereas 47- 80 percent parents opined that their children’s involvement in various recreational activities was found to be beneficial for them for creating delight, improving their skills required in day to day life, enhancing general knowledge, becoming self-confident and energetic and improving their children’s performance in competitions. On the other hand irrespective of gender, ignoring studies (46%), playing digital games exclusively on smartphones (41%), causing eye strain due to excessive screen time (30%), disturbed sleeping pattern (22%), addiction to the smartphones (13%) were reported to be the negative effects of recreational activities on children by their parents. Irrespective of gender, urban school going children’s age, standard in which they were continuing their education, school timings, their type of family and size of family found to be positively correlated with their availability of leisure time for carrying out various recreational activities. On the other hand, urban school going children’s medium of instructions as well as socio-economic status of the family recorded to have significant negative correlation with their availability of leisure time for carrying out various recreational activities.
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