RECREATIONAL HABIT OF NIGERIANS IN URBAN, SUB-URBAN AND RURAL AREAS

In nigeria both the young and the old usually have a very poor recreational habit. Generally, it is believed thet if one recreates he or she is spending inveluable time that should have been devoted to work in other to earn more money. The recreational habit of nigerians can be further sub divided into rural, sub-urban and urban areas. It has been noticed that people from rural areas have a better recreational culture than people from other areas. Usually, people living in the rural settlement engage in activities like playing games with friends or in group or swimming at the river and even their adults hang out in groups either to drink among men or to gossip which is common among women. Meanwhile people who stay in sub urban areas perform some recreational activities like playing ball, tennis, or running. People in the urban region usually have only little time to recreate so they spend almost all their time at work but may have weekends to perform in some few recreational activity like watching a movie at the cinema, playing cards or ludo game, e.t.c.

THINGS THAT POSITIVELY INFLUENCES ONE’S RECREATIONAL HABIT
A recreational habit is one recreational activity that an individual keep to which he or she does for fun voluntrilly during one’s leisure time. There are various factors that are responsible for positively influencing one’s recreational habit and ther are listed below;
1. Age
2. Money
3. Family size
4. Level of income
5. Occupation
6. Physical well being
7. Anxiety
8. Stress
9. Educational background
10. Avalability of resources
11. Rate of exposure
12. Insecurity

HOW TO MAKE POSITIVE CHANGES IN THE RECREATIONAL HABIT OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY
Individuals who recreate regulally should be able to let those who don’t know the benefits that recreational activities brings to them as individuals. After knowing the problems affecting individual’s participation in recreational activities, one should now be able to profer solutions to them.
After encouraging such people, one should also assist them by either providing funds for them if they are poor of by engaging in group recreational activities to encourage such individual’s paticipation.
For people who only do work, they should also be advised to have time to recreate in other not to have high risk of cardio vascular diseases which eventually usually lead to Death in most cases.