The Effects of Active Social leisure Activities on Communicative Skills and their Role on Mental Health of the Employees of Education Organization of Hamedan

Abstract

Introduction and objective

It is obvious that leisure time has very important role in mental and physical improvement of the members of society; thus, the aim of the present study is to analyze the effect of active social leisure activities on communicative skills and its role on mental health of employees.

Methodology

The present study is descriptive correlative. The statistical population includes 400 employees of education organization of Hamedan city. According to Cohen formula (2000), the sample size includes 196 members who were selected through stratified random sampling from the statistical population. For data collection, active social leisure activities, communicative skills and mental health of employees with reliability of 0.71, 0.90 and 0.92 were used. Moreover, the face and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the experts. The statistical analyses have been done through statistical software packages of social sciences, version 19 and Lizrel (version 8.54) in descriptive and referential levels (p≤ 0.05).

Findings

Findings have shown that the active social leisure activities directly influence communicative skills and mental health.

Conclusion

It seems necessary to pay enough attention to physical, mental and social health of individuals. Thus, having active social leisure time is recommended as an effective factor in increased efficacy and sufficiency of individuals and social and working transactions as leisure strategy.

Keywords: mental health, active leisure activities, social activities, employees, communicative skills