Abstract
Lifestyles, culture, leisure and free time of university students. This research is divided in two distinct parts. The first one studies critically and systematically the fundamental concepts dealt with throughout the work: youth, university students, leisure, culture, free time and lifestyles. After a critical revision of the approaches and theoretical standpoints on this field of study, a more theoretical articulation is put forward, allowing a better approach to the study of this reality. In the second part, the free time, leisure and cultural habits of the students of the University of Oviedo are analysed by means of a survey especially designed for this work. From the results obtained therefor, a comparison is carried out between this sort of habits in university students and the same practices in the rest of youths, attempting to discern if university students conform a youth group with a lifestyle of its own and neatly differentiated from that of other youths. All this analysis is carried out from a psychosociological approach.
