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

Abstract

Leisure participation of persons with disability has been an ignored area of research except little effort made in recent times by some researchers. Even with that, leisure concerns of persons with visual and physical disabilities in Nigeria has not been given adequate academic attention. Thus, this paper assess their leisure motivation in Minna 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. The results of this study show that the main leisure activities of persons with visual and physical disabilities is sleeping and chatting. While the main indicators of leisure motivation dimensions of person with visual impairments in descending order are: satisfy my curiosity, build friendship, gain respect, and have sense of belonging, that of persons with physical disability are to have a feeling of achievement and use my imagination. Results also indicate existence of variation in leisure motivation between persons with visual and physical disabilities in intellectual, competence mastery, and stimulus avoidance dimensions, and non-existence of variation on social dimension of leisure motivation.