پيامدهاي درگيري مسلحانه بر اوقات فراغت و فعاليت بدني اوقات فراغت نوجوانان در كشورهاي جنگ زده (مورد مطالعه: كشور عراق)

The Consequences of Armed Conflict on Adolescent’s Leisure Time an‎d Leisure Time Physical Activity in War-Torn Countries (The case of Iraq)

مديريت ورزش

This study examines the impact of armed conflict on adolescents’ leisure an‎d leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) in Iraq, an area that has received limited scholarly attention despite its importance for adolescent health an‎d well-being. Interviews with fifteen adolescents aged 17 to 19 who had been exposed to ISIS-related conflict revealed seven interconnected themes across the domains of leisure an‎d leisure-time physical activity. In the domain of leisure, the findings showed that armed conflict disrupts adolescents’ leisure through the systematic disruption an‎d spatial contraction of leisure environments, reduced financial capacity to support leisure participation, transformations in leisure activities an‎d participation patterns, diminished ability to engage in leisure due to physical an‎d psychological consequences, the marginalization an‎d deva‎luation of leisure, the replacement of leisure companions an‎d social actors, an‎d the selec‎tive substitution of leisure equipment. In other words, armed conflict disrupts adolescents’ leisure by weakening the social, economic, an‎d spatial structures that enable meaningful participation. The findings also demonstrated that armed conflict affects leisure-time physical activity by transforming play spaces into spaces of survival, turning physical activity into passive waiting, imposing spatial restrictions an‎d contributing to physical decline, disrupting social relationships associated with physical activity, redefining physical activity as a dispensable luxury, undermining family support, an‎d eroding future orientation an‎d sense of meaning. In essence, armed conflict disrupts the social, spatial, an‎d moral conditions that sustain leisure-time physical activity an‎d creates cumulative an‎d unavoidable constraints that reshape adolescents’ daily routines, motivations, an‎d social connections.

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