Comparison of planning and using free time among students of the Faculty of Pharmacy and the Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences.
The work presents a research of the group of third year students from two faculties of the Medical University in Lublin. The aim of the research was find out the correlation and differences in the ways of managing and using the so-called 'leisure time'; in relation to stable factors, as well as the system and the direction of studies and environmental factors, dependent on the influences of the psychosociological surrounding. 114 students of the Faculty of Pharmacy and also 55 daily and 51 extramural students of the Faculty of Nursing and Health Education were examined. It has been stated that students of the Faculty of Nursing and Health Education devoted most of their time to house work, reading books and magazines and watching TV, which differentiated them from pharmacy students. Daily students of both faculties in comparison with extramural students spent more time on listening to the radio, going to the cinema or taking part in social meetings. Daily students of the Faculty of Nursing and Health Education devoted more time to sport, walking, reading books and magazines, hobbies and going to the theatre, opera, museum, concerts and exhibitions, not only in comparison with the extramural students, but also with the pharmacy students. A few students showed interest in part-time work during the academic year, although their number rose during the period of holidays, especially among daily students of the Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences. On the basis of the research it was stated that the way of managing and actual spending of leisure time was influenced by the direction of studies, family situation and sex of the examined students.
Chair and Departament of Human Physiology, Medical University of Lublin.
Róza
R
Czabak-Garbacz
Agnieszka
A
Skibniewska
Piotr
P
Mazurkiewicz
Anna
A
Wisowska
Agnieszka
A
Gdula
D000328:Adult; D002755:Choice Behavior; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007899:Leisure Activities; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D011044:Poland; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013339:Students, Pharmacy / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017748:Time Management