RECREATIONAL HABITS EXAMINATION AMONG DIFFERENT KIND OF GENERATION

Abstract

This study focuses on the role of certain factors responsible for physical and
mental health, paying particular attention to the relationship between the family
- particularly the grandparents - and physical education. Nowadays, dealing with
grandparents and involving them in the upbringing of their grandchildren - and
in all fields of life - is an important task for the families.
Despite the negative changes, the smallest community of society still plays
a basic role in the formation o f habits, way of life and values. Undoubtedly, the
family is a biological, social and emotional community, uniting several genera-
tions and it provides such examples and patterns, the effects of which are difficult
to complement or cannot be corrected at all.
As the study concerned quite a lot fields and issues, in this particular essay
we wish to introduce only a part o f the research, detailing the issues o f the rela-
tionship of two generations: that of grandparents and grandchildren. The topic
was chosen because it concerns a less studied subject, not to mention the changes
in the grandparents’ roles as a result of the recent changes and specifications of
modern age.
The study was carried out in Hungary, in the North-Hungarian region,
among 10-14-year-old children, their parents and grandparents. There was a
questionnaire survey for 509 children, 509-509 parents (mother, father) and 509
grandparents. 50 children, 50 parents and 50 grandparents were interviewed in
structured forms.
We were able to prove an impact system according to which grandparents
have a crucial role in today’s Hungarian family structure and in the complicated
and difficult employment scheme o f the parents. Our study proves it evidently that
according to the respondents in the relationship of grandparents and grandchil-
dren the stress is on the quality o f time spent together, i.e. on their content and
emotional values. The key drivers of their relationship are love and respect.