Research On The Leisure Lifestyles Of The College Students-Case Study Of Qingdao Agricultural University

The advancing machinery nowadays has brought a big revolution to the life style of human beings. The shortening of working hours and increasing of leisure time has become the greatest change of the daily life of modern life. Therefore, how to better utilize the increased leisure time has become new concern of a lot of people. Leisure lifestyles are becoming increasingly important and their social functions are becoming more and more important.Leisure lifestyles are indispensable part of college student’s life. Being rational and finding healthy ways of doing leisure lifestyles have become an important factor bearing a mark on their future, which strongly influences their social life and maturity. Focusing on the leisure lifestyles of college students has become highly relevant both in theory and in practice.With the help of literary materials, questionnaires, surveys, this research makes students of Qingdao Agricultural University as its main research subjects, focusing on how they do leisure lifestyles. Through probing into the motivation, means, considerations and obstacles, this research identifies existing problems in leisure lifestyles, and probes into the effective ways to bringing up qualities and levels of leisure lifestyles of the college students.Conclusions are drawn in the following:1. Compared with middle school students or others, college students have more abundant leisure time, regardless of whether being workdays or weekends.2. Leisure activities of college students are various, and evenly distributed. Male students mainly prefer recreational entertainment, and then sports; while female prefer watching programs, then high-brow entertainment. Therefore, male and female varies on the interests, and males prefer dynamic entertainment while female static.3. There are some psychological, interpersonal and structural problems in the leisure life of college students, among which the lack of leisure knowledge and skills is the major obstacle in the healthy leisure lifestyle.4. Most of college students understand the importance of leisure life, but they do not understand the true meaning of it, and they have not seriously thought of their leisure life from the perspective of values.5. The leisure life of college student, at most times, is not costly. Constrained from their affordability, they do not spend much on leisure life. Despite of this, the overall consumption demand is steadily increasing, and turning to the high-brow activities.6. There are problems like low level, monotony, irrationality, lack of plans, organization and education. College students are not usually volunteered to do leisure activities.7. The improvement of the quality and level of leisure life of college students requires a system incorporating colleges, families, social organizations and governments. The government shall promulgate policies and improve social environment on this regard, and also strength social educational organizations. We shall create a harmonious family environment and help parents. We shall give full play of the colleges in working up effective means of strengthening leisure life management.