Recreational Activities and Work Values of Coastal Women for Development of Economic Enhancement Program

Abstract

This study sought to determine and analyse the coastal women’s recreational activities and level of work values and to find out what variables were such recreational activities and work values related with the end in view of helping local officials create a Recreational Program that will enable the women to earn while enjoying their leisure hours and become productive.The study made use of qualitative and quantitative data and descriptive correlation that looked into the relationship between the women’s work values, and their recreational activities.Three hundred seventy eight coastal women in the nineteen barangays of Lingayen, Pangasinan, Philippines, aged 20 years and above were chosen at random. Data were gathered via questionnaire and analysed using frequency counts and percentage, ANOVA and Chi-square test.The study focused on the following that the Coastal Women:Have little involvement in meaningful recreational activities along social, religion, arts and crafts, creative and other related activities Have engaged or were involved in different recreational activities Have possessed high sense of responsibility toward work- have high level of work values That their work values were dependent on their recreational activities