Individual Factors And Student Involvement In Extra Curricular Activities

Abstract

The study focuses on how individual factors affect students’ involvement in Extra Curricular activities at the university. Primary data are collected through a Questionnaire from 100 undergraduates selected using Systematic Sampling from 2nd & 3rd Years of the Management Faculty, University of Kelaniya. Hypotheses are tested using the critical value approach and the p-Value approach using the PHStat software of MS Excel. It is concluded that there is no association between the individual factors - gender, ethnicity, religion, school attended, home town and family income level, where as there is an association between relationship status of undergraduates and involvement in extracurricular activities. Further, it is needed to investigate whether extracurricular activities available at university develop the employable undergraduate required by the world of work. As otherwise it is no point in continuing student engagement in them as they do not develop anything for the benefit of them and the society.