Analysis of the associations between curiosity and the lifelong learning tendency of university students
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https://doi.org/10.17162/au.v11i4.817Keywords:
Leisure, curiosity, lifelong learning, education, recreation, university studentsAbstract
The present study aimed to investigate the associations between curiosity and lifelong learning tendency of serious and casual leisure participant university students. The study was designed as a cross sectional study and 799 students from Gazi University participated in the study. To collect data, the “Curiosity II”, “Life Long Learning Tendency” and the “Serious and Casual Leisure Participant” scales were used. The data were analyzed with SPSS for Windows 23. In data analyze, Independent Samples t Test, and Pearson correlations were used. The mediation effect of being serious or casual leisure participant on the correlation between curiosity and lifelong learning tendency, Process 3.1 for SPSS was used. As results this study showed that curiosity and lifelong learning positively correlated each other. Besides, being a serious leisure participant partially mediated the correlation between the variables.Downloads
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