The purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between leisure participation type and leisure satisfaction among the elderly in Chongju. The subjects totalled 308 person who participating in leisure participation type. The age of subjects r...
The purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between leisure participation type and leisure satisfaction among the elderly in Chongju. The subjects totalled 308 person who participating in leisure participation type. The age of subjects ranged from 65 to above 80. The questionnaire for leisure satisfaction had been developed by Beard & Ragheb(1980) and used in Korean language by Lee(1992). An analysis was used exploratory in order to analyze the data. This study used SPSSWin Version 8.0 program for statistical analysis, and was completed using frequencies, factor analysis, ANOVA, covariance analysis.
The results of this study are as follows:
First, the socio-demographic factors of leisure participants make differences in leisure satisfaction. Males show greater satisfaction than females. Relatively, with higher education, higher healthy showed greater leisure satisfaction.
Second, the relationships between patterns of leisure activity and leisure satisfaction are appeared that sport activity, playful-recreational activity, tour-fun activity, social interaction activity, viewing-appreciation activity in regular sequence.