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Title

A research report on leisure activities and social programs of the London Metropolitan University Pre-sessional course students .

Background

There are quite a lot of researches has been done about how stress affecting working people over the last 10 years but the situation can go harder on to the students more than working people in terms of the dealing process with the stress.
From the beginning of the education lives of the students , they are racing and competing with each other until they finish up being in between their needs for motivation to study more and the necessity for the leisure activities to relax and socialize.
Despite of the fact that of studying hard and all the time , especially foreign students need some time off for their social activities to feel more comfortable and also realize that they are not all alone on their new adventures for to move forward.
It is useful then to investigate when students free times are and what kind of activities could be organized to make them feel comfortable and happy more.

Aims


The aim of this report is to investigate what London Metropolitan Pre-Sessional course students do on their spare times and when is the proper time period for them to socialize. Also to discover their needs on leisure activities that the university can organize.

The Method

The Sample

The sample size was 5 and the respondents were almost the same age. They were all pre-sessional course students of the London Metropolitan University.

Data Collection

This was carried out through the use of a survey. First of all ; all the question were trialled with a sample of 5 people and new improved survey then devised. A little changes were on the options of choosing and the style of the questionnaire.
And the original survey has taken by 24 people and they were all London metropolitan university students.

Findings

There were three questions asked to London Metropolitan students pertaining to demographic details ; The age , marital status and their genders . The majority of the students were in the age between of 21-25 , and more than a quarter of the students were in between 26-30 , also a smaller portion of them were in between of 31-35 while a small minority of the students were younger than 20 years old. Regarding to the marital status question ;Unsurprisingly nearly more than three quarters of the students stated that they were single but also a significant number of the students mentioned that they were married , also %8.3 of the students said that they were divorced. Interestingly no-one said that they were engaged. When it comes to genders ,more than half of the students interviewed were males and %41.16 of them were females.

When asked London met students if they are working or not , the majority agreed that they were not working .However a significant number of the students , which is %37.5 , agreed that they were working. This would seem to indicate a significant number of students are experiencing a financial difficulties , while the rest of them probably might not.

When it comes to the periods of the students' free times , out of the 24 students ,precisely half of them interviewed mentioned that weekday afternoons and weekday evenings were available for their leisure activities and nearly 3 quarters of the respondents replied that the weekend nights were the most appropriate time for them to be free , also more than half of the students stated that the weekend days were also their times for their leisure activities. These results suggested that the weekday afternoons and evenings might be available for the students for whom they are not working . However it is also indicated of the big majority of the students that weekend nights are most convenient time period for them to socialize.

In terms of the most common leisure activities that London Metropolitan students do, it is impossible not to notice how sportive they were. The results reveal some significant variations among different activities of the students but considering the vast majority, surprisingly they choose to do sports on their free times. it is articulated that just about a quarter of the students interviewed choose to do entertainment and only 2 people stated that she/he is interesting in technological activities while just one person has other interests in his/her free time. this seems to show a tendency for to do sports is very popular among the London metropolitan students .

With those whom choose to do sports, divided three parts , through their working out hours. Nearly half of them spend their 3-5 hours in a week while only a small portion of them spend their 6-10 hours in a week. Also %38.16 of the students like to do sports two hours pr less than two hours in a week. With regard to their sport activities surprisingly only %7 .69 of them choose to do the sports with other people while rest of the students' answers separated exactly same portions. Half of the rest choose to do it alone and the other half choose to do it with their friends.

As their attitudes towards the university's social organizations , even though almost three quarter of the students knew about the events , only a small portion of the students indicated that they were attended. Surprisingly , again, only half of them voted 5 out of 10 while the rest of the students shared their votes precisely 2,6 and 7. Overall , satisfaction levels seems to to be very low. We can perhaps therefore add that if the amount of the students who do sports are that huge so maybe it would be better for university's social organizations might be related with sports so that the students can pay more attention than they are doing right now.