Recently, popularization of leisure activity participation together with extension of women` s rights bring increase of women`s sport participation. Owing to the nuclear families, house-wives` role is gradually increasing, their stress and family life...
Recently, popularization of leisure activity participation together with extension of women` s rights bring increase of women`s sport participation. Owing to the nuclear families, house-wives` role is gradually increasing, their stress and family life satisfaction have influence on the each organization that a household and member of house belong to directly and indirectly. Sport for All as one of the leisure activity has an important role to maintain a household amicably, give the chance of using their spare moments to house-wives and get rid of stress to encourage family life satisfaction. From this kind point of view, this research have the purpose to encourage and settle the sport participation of married women as a healthy spare time activity based on the relationship among married women`s leisure activity participation and family life satisfaction. In the concrete, to examine the difference of family life satisfaction between sport participation and non-participation, to examine that there is any relationship directly and indirectly between family life satisfaction regard to the degree of participation frequency, period and intensity. In this research to achieve the research purpose, set up married women who live in Seoul in 1999 presently as a population, and finally analyze 402 married women as a sampling by systematic stratified cluster random sampling and systematic cluster random sampling. Tool for data collection is (Questionnaire for the relationships between leisure activity participation and family life satisfaction among married women), and the result of reliance shows family life satisfaction=. 7568. Method of statistical analysis for data analysis are ANCOVA, multiple regression analysis, correlation analysis. Results based on this research method and data analysis are as follows; 1. There is a difference in family life satisfaction in regard to the sport participation of married women. Namely, family financial satisfaction, family mutual satisfaction, housekeeping satisfaction, married couple mutual satisfaction, general life satisfaction of married women who are participate in sport are higher than those of married women who are not participate in sport. 2. The degree of sport participation of married women is related to the family life satisfaction. Namely, the higher the frequency of participation is, the higher family financial satisfaction and general life satisfaction are. The higher the intensity of sport participation is, the higher general life satisfaction is.