Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences, cilt.22, sa.1, ss.6210-6227, 2024 (Scopus)
The current research aims to analyze the physical, psychological, and social benefits of playing street basketball on sustainable activity awareness among young men. Accordingly, 284 high school and university educated men who play street basketball participated in the study. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews and questionnaires in different street basketball courts in Ankara in March and May 2024. The questionnaires included demographic questions, Sustainable Event Awareness Scale (SEAS) and Leisure Benefit Scale (LBS) scales. For the analysis of the collected data, normality and reliability tests were performed first and parametric tests were applied as a result. According to the results of the analyses, it was found that the levels of sustainable activity awareness and leisure benefit were high in young men and that the variables of age, perceived income and education level did not significantly change these levels, whereas weekly street basketball playing time and perceived benefits gained from street basketball significantly changed these levels. In addition, it was found that sustainable activity awareness and leisure utility levels were positively related at low levels and leisure utility was a significant predictor of sustainable activity awareness levels for young men playing street basketball. Leisure benefit levels explain 32% of the variance of sustainable activity awareness. These findings suggest that engaging in street basketball can be a valuable activity for promoting sustainable activity awareness among young men. In addition to this, it can be argued that young men should be encouraged to play street basketball as there are physical, psychological and social benefits to be gained from playing street basketball.