Students’ opinion regarding types of mobility with a purpose in the construction of leisure time and limitative factors in the practice of leisure time motric activities

2011 
Abstract Problem Statement: Among the reasons that determine the modern individual to commute from his residence in order to visit another county, an area, a country we can enumerate: the need of relaxation, physical or mental rest, of relaxing through motric activities, the need of escaping the polluted urban area and the everyday stressing life, the need of leisure through varied motion both as form and as structure, the necessity of having fun, the desire of knowing the beauties of a country, or its culture, and last, but not least, the sake for one's health. These reasons, which determine an individual to travel, summarizes the types of mobility with a purpose of building the program for one's leisure time and the touristic motivation as a form of psychological and social manifestation. We can therefore state that leisure time and touristic activities “are more and more detached from the periods which rhymed the alternation between seasons, between holiday and work, between day and night…”(Bota A., 2006) Purpose of Study: This study has been initiated in Romania staring from the research undertaken regarding the same theme in the United States of America (1979), Greece (1999). The number of subjects surveyed was made of 100 students (men and women). Research Methods: Bibliographic study method; Observation method; Enquiry method (dialogue, questionnaire, etc.); Pedagogical experiment method; Statistical-mathematical method; Graphical method. Findings: The following research started from the hypothesis that there is a new touristic culture structuring, in which game activities are intertwined, and the symbols of leisure time (holidays, travels, sports, arts, cultural aspects) are combined and penetrate one's social consciousness, offering new identities. Conclusions: The study permitted the verification of the hypothesis. Tourism, sports tourism, leisure time activities, determine the apparition and the development of social connections, it contributes to the development of an understanding and peaceful climate, it activates people's financial possibilities and leisure time, enlarging enriching their cultural horizon. Furthermore, it contributes to one's health regeneration, work capacity, at improving one's knowledge, at the satisfaction of spiritual motivation, and at the creation of an understanding and peaceful climate between the peoples.
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