Assessment of Leisure Motivation of Persons with Visual and Physical Disabilities in Minna, Nigeria

Abstract

Leisure participation of persons with disability has been an ignore area of research except for the little effort made in recent times by some researchers. Even with that, leisure concerns of persons with visual and physical disability in Nigeria has not been given adequate academic attention. Thus, this paper examines their leisure motivation in Minna town using a survey questionnaire for persons with visual and physical impairments who were conveniently selected. Analysis of data was conducted using descriptive statistics and independent sample t test in SPSS 20. The results of this study shows that the main leisure activity of visual and physical disables are sleeping and chatting. While the main indicators of leisure motivation dimensions of persons with visual impairment in descending other are satisfy my curiosity, build friendship, gain others respect, and have sense of belonging, that of persons with physical disability are to be active, have feeling of achievement, and use my imagination. Results also indicate the existence of variations in leisure motivation between persons with visual and physical disability on intellectual, competence mastery and stimulus avoidance dimensions and non-existence of any variation on social dimension of leisure motivation.