Study of Spending Leisure Time of Female Professors, Students, and Staffs at Ilam University with Emphasizing on Physical Activities and Sport

Nowadays, there are some new concepts such as leisure time and how to spend it having found their true meaning with the advent of various types of technology and industry advancement in the people’s lives. Hence, the aim of this research was to study spending the leisure time with emphasis on physical activities and sport at Ilam University. This study is descriptive and a kind of field study. The statistical society includes female professors, students, and the staffs of Ilam University, among whom 362 were selected through stratified sampling using Morgan’s table. The data was collected by using a questionnaire whose Cranach’s alpha reliability was determined (Ra= 0.89). For data analysis we used descriptive statistical method (the mean, standards deviation and distribution tables), and in inferential statistics (Kruskal-Wallis, ANOVA and LSD test) (p<0 0.05). The findings showed that among leisure activities, using mobile in all three groups was the most important activity in leisure time and physical activities and sport were in ninth, seventh and eighth priority among professors, students and staffs; in other words, investigation about relationship between variables indicates that there is a significant difference between income average, age and education level with the rate of sport and leisure time in all three groups. Static actions like using mobile and chat have a major role in women leisure time, and sport doesn’t have a favorable position. Also, the existing difference in the ways of spending leisure time depends on the amount of income, age, marriage, interest, and social differences.