RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORKLOAD AND PARTICIPATION IN LEISURE ACTIVITIES AMONG CIVIL SERVANTS OF KATSINA STATE, NIGERIA

Abubakar Y.¹, Adeyanju F. B.², & Chom E. J.³

^{1, 2, & 3}Department of Physical and Health Education

Faculty of Education

Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

Email: yakgez337@gmail.com

Corresponding Author: Abubakar Y.

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to find out the relationship between workload and participation in leisure activities among civil servants of Katsina State Nigeria. To achieve this end, Ex-post Facto Research Design was adopted. The population for the study comprised of civil servants from all ministries, departments, agencies, boards and other parastatals in Katsina State, Nigeria- totaling to 18,487, from which proportionately, 400 respondents were issued the questionnaire and 377 of the questionnaire were retrieved upon which the data analysis was conducted. In this study, welfare of the civil servants, which is a strong indicator of job satisfaction, was correlated with their participation in leisure activities in form of social, educative and sporting perspectives. The demographic characteristics of the respondents were analyzed using frequency and percentage table, whereas, the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMC) was used to test the null hypothesis with the decision mean placed at  3.5 and the level of significance was set at 0.05.The result revealed that the two variables –workload and participation in leisure activities were significantly related with an observed correlation coefficient of 0.913. The major findings from the study showed that workers’ workload is significantly correlated with participation in social, educative and sport related leisure activities among Katsina State civil servants. To this therefore, the researcher concluded that workloads a strong indicator of job satisfaction correlates positively with participation in leisure activities among Katsina State civil servants and finally recommended that, Katsina State Civil Service Commission should raise more awareness on the roles of leisure activities in the productivity and all round development of civil servants by providing opportunities during break time (despite their workload) to enable them participate in one or more recreational activities.