Document Type : Original Article
Abstract
Leisure has had qualitative and quantitative expansion in the present world and its spending is vital in youths’ identification. So misusing it can lead to deviant behaviors. This paper aims to identify and explain cultural factors influencing on the way of spending leisure in the framework of value system. Hypothesis deducted from theoretical framework was examined through survey method and questionnaire technique which is taken from Alport’s “study of values spectrum” and the way of spending leisure was examined by a structured and self-report questionnaire. The sample population was 369 persons of Dasht-e Azadegan youths. The conclusion indicates that relations between theoretical value and tranquility, social value and social leisure, artistic value and artistic leisure, religious value and social value were proved and the relations between economic value and practical leisure, political value and physical leisure were refuted. Among grounded variables, relations between socialeconomic statues and artistic leisure, gender and physical and practical leisure, matrimony and artistic leisure were proved and relation between age and social leisure was refuted.
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