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Item Parental Purposes for Motivating Children to Engage in School-Based Sports(Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016) Dissanayake, N.B.; Kalansooriya, J.; Kumari, H.V.M.; Arachchige, O.; Pitigala, P.K.G.C.This Study examines the effects of parental attitudes on children’s school sport participation. It will focus on different people and institutions that are linked to promoting sports in School -aged children. The main purpose of the study is to assess the parents’ expectations when motivating their children for school sport programs. We have also analyzed the relationship between parents’ attitudes towards their children’s sporting habits. The primary research question for this inquiry is “what are the parental beliefs about extracurricular sport activities and what their expectations of these programs are?” There are many researches already carried out to find the relationship between the present situations in Sri Lankan school children’s participation in sports, which is considerably high. A measure of parental attitude that is independent of the child’s behavior is important in covering the gap in the existing research. I have collected responses from nine schools in the Gampaha district, Sri Lanka. The primary data was collected from 270 school children who are engaged in and not engaged in school sports. Data was analyzed for statistics, percentages, factor loading and group comparisons by using the software SPSS 21.0. The findings show mainly seven expectations influencing parents’ attitudes. The key parental attitude that determine their encouragement of their children to engage in sports is the approachability of coaches. Parents are of the opinion that sport participation has had a positive influence on attitudes towards making good grades, and they believe that children would be less likely to hang out with the wrong crowd if they are involved in sports. The positive recognition received from participating in sports was beneficial, and children seem to be more satisfied with school when participating in sports. All these factors have 81% variance to the dependent variable. Female children’s sport participation is only marginally influenced by female parents when female children are growing up. The results imply that promoting sports to the younger generation seems to be a fruitful strategy in creating a sporting habit and promoting sports participation among parents. However, there are challenges to be overcome in promoting female participation.Item Influence of visitor’s perception on relationship between visitor experience and satisfaction(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Karunarathna, R.P.N.; Kalansooriya, J.Item Reducing Lead Time in Library Book Issue Counter Process (LBICP): A Value Stream Mapping Approach; A case study at the library in University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Lakmali, K.N.; Kalansooriya, J.Item Intermediate effect of tourist perception towards harassment on the relationship between tourist harassment and satisfaction(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Jayasiri, S.A.P.N.; Kalansooriya, J.Sri Lanka is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. As it contains mixture of breathing landscape, misty hills, rare unique wild life, rich cultural tradition and heritage, tropical weather as well as delightful beaches. Because Sri Lanka is a tropical island found in the deep blue waters of the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal. However many tourists visiting Sri Lanka have to undergo many forms of harassment. The key objective of this study is to identify the contingency effect of tourist perception on harassment towards the relationship between tourist satisfaction and harassment. In additional here are three specific objectives viz.; 1). To identify the relationship between tourists harassment and tourist perception 2). To identify the relationship between tourists perception on harassment and tourist harassment 3). To identify the relationship between tourists‟ perception on harassment and tourists‟ satisfaction. The study was conducted using the mixed methodology and data collected from the different sources such questionnaire survey with tourists. Purposive sampling method was used to sample a total 50 foreign tourists from Mount Lavinia. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS 21.0) was utilized to analyze the data from Ordinal Logic correlation. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages, and cross tabulations were calculated and presented using tables and graphs. The study revealed that the tourists who in Sri Lanka undergo harassment by different parties like tour guides, local vendors, beach boys etc. In addition to that the tourists face harassing situations due to the poor site management and the variation of the natural environment. The harassments create dissatisfaction among the tourists and it also affect for the future wellbeing of the tourism industry in Sri Lanka. The findings suggest that there is a positive relationship between tourist harassment, tourists‟ satisfaction and tourist perception on harassment.Item Hierarchy of leisure Constraints in semi urban communities Sri Lanka. With special Reference: Wewelduwa GN division(Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2015) Chandrathilaka, P.H.D.; Kalansooriya, J.The study was conducted to achieve few objectives. There are 1.To investigate Interpersonal constraints, 2.To examine intrapersonal constraints 3.To explore structural constraints. The Wewelduwa GN division was selected as the sample area.out of 570 household in the considered GN division it was selected 107 household associating systematic random sampling techniques. Likert scaled questionnaires were used to collect data from respondents, and tables, graphs and charts were used to present the data. Besides that factor analysis was associated to analysis the data and finally, could find 3 types of factors and with hierarchical order leading to leisure time activities with regard to the sample data. As the sample size was limited to 107 household the findings should be read accordable.Item Results oriented vs. process oriented(University of Kelaniya, 2008) Kalansooriya, J.