Amel Jazvin, Natalija Kurtović, Rijad Novaković, and Damir Đedović
Being physically active is probably one of the most important decisions that any person can make in order to improve their own health, regardless of gender or age. For the student population, regular physical exercise is of great importance due to excessive learning and sitting. The aim of this research was to show how many students are playing sports in their leisure time, through a survey conducted on a sample of undergraduate students from the Džemal Bijedić University in Mostar.
From a total number of 142 participants, 76.8% of them are playing sports (63.4% recreational and 13.4% competitive), and most of them are playing team sports with the ball (23.9%) or doing sports activities in the gym (31.7%). 95.8% of students think that sports have a positive impact on students’ life quality, which is less than the percentage of students who play sports (76.8%). So we can conclude that despite the knowledge of the importance of physical activity, students do not behave according to what they think about sport and physical activity.
Keywords: leisure time, students, sports, university, physical activity
