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

Leisure activities promote the interaction of people, 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 competitive and cooperativeness of young university students, we have performed a survey. The data were statistically processed using ad hoc scripts. We found that the interest in board games, videogames, sport, and music listening is high for the majority of the students, in contrast with the 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. Students who have a high interest in video games show a high interest in sports, obtaining the maximum correlation. Students who show interest in sports have no other preference besides the video games analyzed, with low correlation with reading and music. The high interest shown correlates well with a high consideration of being a competitive person and a cooperative person but with a distinguishable concentration on higher values for cooperativeness than for competitiveness.