Tenth International Conference on Sport & Society

Abstract

This paper investigated the influence of recreational activities on the health status of academic staff in federal university of technology Akure, Ondo State Nigeria. It was observed that the health related benefits of recreation were not taken serious by most individuals in university, they termed it to be waste of time and this had cost them a lot of money in attending hospitals, clinics as well as paying for treatment bill. The research design for the study was survey design of the descriptive type of research. Three hundred (300) respondents was used for the study using systematic sampling techniques. Instruments used for the study was a self- structured questionnaire. A split half method was used to test the reliability of the instruments, using Pearson’s product moment correlation (PPMC). A coefficient of 1.00 was obtained at 0.05 level of significance. The descriptive statistics of frequency counts and simple percentage were used to analyse the demographic data while the generated hypotheses were tested using Pearson’s product moment correlation (PPMC) and analysis of variance (ANOVA) at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed significant relationship between recreational activities and Stress, anxiety and depression of the academic staff of federal university of technology, there was a significant relationship between recreational activities and physical fitness of the academic staff of federal university of technology. It therefore recommended that academic staff in the university of technology, Akure should adopt participation in recreational activities so as to bring about healthy living and well-being and physical fitness.