Competitiveness versus cooperativeness linked to leisure activities in young university students in Spain

Leisure activities promote people interaction, improving relationships. Young people live in a process of psychological and physiological development, and competitiveness and cooperativeness, two elements of analysis in social relations, are important among young people who are shaping their social development. To explore the relationship among leisure interest and self-consideration of competitiveness and cooperativeness of young university students, we performed a survey using a designed and validated questionnaire containing statements for students to indicate their interest in leisure activities. Data were statistically processed using ad hoc scripts, Pearson's correlation coefficients were calculated, and P-values were obtained from paired individual data, using a t-distribution with N-2 degrees of freedom. We found that interest in board games, videogames, sport, and music listening is high for the majority of the students, in contrast with interest of reading. Students interested in board games have some interest in video games and reading, without any correlation with sports and a negative correlation with music. The high interest shown correlates well with a high consideration of being a competitive and a cooperative person but with a distinguishable concentration on higher values for cooperativeness than for competitiveness.