Effects of Tourism Students' Optimist-Pessimist Features on their Leisure Satisfactions and Interpersonal Relations

YURCU G., AKINCI Z.

2nd International Conference on Lifelong Education and Leadership for All (ICLEL), Liepaja, Letonya, 21 - 23 Temmuz 2016, ss.548-558 identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Liepaja
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Letonya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.548-558
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Optimist-Pessimist Feature, leisure Satisfaction, Interpersonal Relation, Tourism Student, PERCEIVED FREEDOM, MOTIVATION, MODEL
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of optimistic and pessimistic characteristics of tourism students, who will determine the future of the tourism sector, on their psychological, social and physiological leisure satisfaction and empathy, emotion awareness and trust in others, in interpersonal relationships. A quantitative survey was applied to 378 tourism faculty students. Data analysis results show us that the scales that were used are highly reliable, and that there is a positive correlation of optimistic characteristics to psychological, physiological, and social leisure satisfaction, but there is a negative correlation of pessimistic characteristics to psychological, physiological, and social leisure satisfaction, optimistic characteristics have positive correlation to empathy, but negative correlation to social leisure satisfaction, pessimistic characteristics have positive correlation to emotion awareness and trust in others, but negative correlation to empathy, physiological leisure satisfaction have positive correlation to empathy, but negative correlation to trust in others and emotion awareness, social leisure satisfaction has positive correlation to empathy and emotion awareness, but negative correlation to trust in others. It was also revealed that optimistic characteristics affect social satisfaction, pessimistic characteristics affect psychological satisfaction most widely, psychological satisfaction affects empathy positively, but trust in others negatively, social satisfaction affects empathy positively, but trust in others negatively, psychological leisure satisfaction has positive correlation to empathy and emotion awareness, but negative correlation to trust in others, optimistic characteristics affect empathy positively but trust in others negatively, pessimistic characteristics affect empathy negatively but trust in others positively, and pessimistic characteristics affect emotion awareness most widely.