Assessesment Of Age and Time as Barriers to Participation in Recreational Sports by Members of National Union of Road Transport Workers (Nurtw) In Nigeria
Isa Ali1, *Yusuf Abubakar2 (Ph.D)& Amina Yusuf Dogara3 (Ph.D)
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to assess time and age as barriers to participation in recreational sports by members of National Union of Road transport Workers (NURTW) in Nigeria. In order to achieve this purpose, the researcher developed two (2) research questions and two (2) hypotheses. Survey research design was used in the study. The population of the study was two million four hundred and sixteen thousand, three hundred and seven (2,416,307) members of the NURTW in the six (6) Geo-Political Zones of Nigeria including FCT, Abuja. The instrument used for data collection was adopted questionnaire by Mohammadi & Jarani (2017), titled Sports Participation Questionnaire (SPQ) which was made up of three (3) sections (A-C) containing closed ended statements using four point modified Likert scale which was used for pilot study. The completed 50 copies were exposed to reliability test where a reliability index of 0.866 was obtained which was rounded up to 0.87 which rendered the instrument reliable for the study. The sample size for this study was 422 drawn using multistage sampling techniques, where same copies of the questionnaire were administered to the respondents but, 402 were successfully completed and returned making 95.3% response rate which was used for the study. Descriptive statistic of frequencies and percentages (%) were used to describe the data collected on demographic variables of the respondents while descriptive statistic of mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions and one sample t – test was used to analyse the hypotheses at alpha level of 0.05. Findings from the study revealed that time and age of members are significant barriers to participation in recreational sports by members of NURTW in Nigeria (p = 0.000). Based on the findings of the study the researchers concluded that time and age were major hindrances to participation in recreational sport by members of the NURTW in Nigeria. It was therefore recommended that members of the NURTW should provide time for recreational sport considering its outstanding benefits not consider their ages as being old or too young to participate in recreational sports as the benefit of participation in recreational sport is independent of one’s age.
Keywords: Sports, Recreation, Recreational sports, Sport participation, Road Transport Workers
