여가활동 참여가 수도권 거주 노인의 고독감, 여가만족, 생활만족에 미치는 영향

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Literature in gerontology and leisure in northern America as well as in Korea indicated that active involvement in leisure is one of the significant factor in later life satisfaction and loneliness needs to be overcome for the well-being of the older population. On the basis of previous research, this study tried to build a theoretical model regarding the relationship among active participation of the elderly in leisure, leisure satisfaction, loneliness and life satisfaction with other exogenous variables such as family relationship, health, and money use. The subjects of this study were 187 elderly who are 65 years old and over, living in Seoul metropolitan area (82 males & 105 females) and were selected by the purposive sampling and individually interviewed. Research instrument was consisted of 10 item revised UCLA loneliness scale (Cronbach alpha=.90), Ragheb and Beard`s Leisure Satisfaction Scale(Cronbach alpha=.93), Diener`s 5 item Satisfaction with Life Scale (Cronbach alpha=.86) and 3 item Leisure Participation Scale (Cronbach alpha=.88) with some background questions. The results showed that a substantial amount of the variation in life satisfaction among elderly adults may be accounted for through the combined direct and indirect effects of the designated variables(R²=.58). The data also substantiated the order of the variables and indicated that leisure satisfaction played the most important direct role in explaining the life satisfaction(β=.39)and family life satisfaction(β=.31 ) and feeling of loneliness(β=-.29) is followed. The data also showed that the degree of loneliness could be ameliorated by the leisure satisfaction(β=-.32 ) which has the characteristics of active leisure participation. An active leisure involvement group (high 33% percentile) obtained higher life satisfaction(F_(1.45)=32.2, p=.000) and lower feeling of loneliness(F_(1.45)=18.9, p=.000)than passive group(low 33% percentile). Within its limitations, this study provided a testable model depicting the causal relationships among leisure participation, loneliness, and life satisfaction and substantiated the role of leisure for the contemporary Korean elderly.