THE EFFECTS OF NEARBY OUTDOOR RECREATION ACTIVITIES ON WELLBEING, PSYCOLOGICAL RESILIENCE, RECOVERY EXPERIENCE, LIFE AND SATISFACT？ON

Aim: This study focuses on nearby outdoor recreation activities (natural places) and tries to statistically prove the relation and interaction among the time spent around the places mentioned and well-being, psychological resilience, recovery experience, life and job saisfaction. Method: The questionnaire was applied to a total of 346 white colars ( 103 women and 243 men) working and dwelling in the disticts of Be？ikta？, Bak？rk？y, Beyo？lu, ？i？li and Fatih in ？stanbul between March-June of 2018. In this study, a spatial scale referring to nearby outdoor recreations, well-being, psychological resilience, recovery experience, life and job satisfaction scales were used and the analysis was performed using SPSS 22.0. The acquired data was evaluated by frequency-analysis, factor analysis, reliability-analysis, correlation and regression. Meaning level was taken as p<0.05. Findings: When considered from the point of time spent around the natural places mentioned, the results show that the participants spend limited time and mostly visit those places for a walk, spend time with children or to picnic. Yet, a quiet poor relation or no relation was found among the amount of time spent in natural places and other dependant variances (p>0.05). Conclusion: As a result of study, the relation coefficient between the nearby outdoor recreation and well-being was found to be very low. In addition, a statistically significant relation or interaction was not found between the visits to the nearby outdoor places and sub-dimensions belonging to the other dependant variances (p>0.05)