Name: HELOISA HERINGER FREITAS
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 28/05/2019
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| LIANA ABRÃO ROMERA | Advisor * |
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| LIANA ABRÃO ROMERA | Advisor * |
Summary: In a world scenario of increase and a range of possibilities of leisure experiences, to explore the way in which youths experience leisure can contribute to understanding the senses given the experiences, as well as the heterogeneous realities of the youths themselves. This research aimed to know the leisure experiences of young undergraduate students of Physical Education of the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. To do so, the research is divided into two parts, the first one explores leisure practices related to preferences, wishes and barriers that make it impossible for the public to experience leisure activities. The second one, which aim to know the nighttime leisure experiences and the third, which observes the use of licit and illicit drugs among the undergraduate students. This research is a descriptive qualitative investigation with application of an online survey in a population of 217 undergraduates (41.5% women and 58.5% men). The data analyze was performed through the IBM SPSS statistical package. We focused on the preferences, wishes, times available and recreational resources of young university students, as well as issues involving nighttime recreation and recreational drug use among these youths. The youths leisure experiences have a broad repertoire, which evidences the pursuit for experiences of socialization, physical and sports practices and rest from the daily routine. We identify that the tourist, intellectual and artistic practices configure the leisure wishes among these young expressions mainly due to the lack of time or money for the realization. The research also pointed out that the nighttime leisure scenarios, especially at the weekends, show a moment of rupture with everyday life and socialization through a diversity of leisure itineraries, for a portion of the population, rare also contexts of drug use. Among the men and women investigated, 63.6% drink alcoholic beverages at night and 49% of the drinking population has a pattern of binge drinking, that appears with higher percentages when consumed in informal spaces such as streets and squares, potentially by less regulatory control than in bars and pubs. As for illicit consumption, 19.3% declare their use and marijuana appears among 95.3% of these consumptions, among which 20% have daily use. Other reported intakes are ecstasy (32.6%), solvents (14%), cocaine (9.3%). We suggest that these youths have a wide repertoire of leisure with an emphasis on socialization. The nightime leisure is characterized by several itineraries and by rupture with everyday life To a part of the university students we suggest that drug consumption is intrinsically related to nighttime leisure patterns highlight issues such as autonomous expression of their identities and preferences, which are less connected deviant behavior, but to issues of identity and lifestyle in contemporary societies.
Keywords: leisure; undergraduate; drugs.
