In the wake of the development of industrial society and the changes of social structures, modern people have spent more their free leisure time than ever. With a matter of grave concern about the improvement of the life in quality, they have a correc...
In the wake of the development of industrial society and the changes of social structures, modern people have spent more their free leisure time than ever. With a matter of grave concern about the improvement of the life in quality, they have a correct understanding of the leisure as the core part in human life.
In this paper, I would like to search for leisure activities of the importune women toiling in the farm work who have been extremely limited to participate in social life and how much those activities could impact on their own self-esteemed feeling and living quality and thus propose a desirable way for the near future's women farmers.
The surveyed people in this study were selected by the researcher who were introduced from the agricultural cooperative association and a local female customer as a general participant at the association's leisure programs in the rural regions of Eub(Hamlet) and Myeon(Village) investigated by a follow-up questionnaire method.
This was analyzed with survey items of ages, academic careers, residence, monthly income, and other general features, frequency of participation, types of leisure activities, and further 3 items of relevant to the participation of leisure activities, 10 to limited factors, 25 to self-esteemed feeling and other 23 to living quality recognized by themselves.
In the result of analysing for the limited factor of leisure activities of rural women, ages were not impacted upon the limited factor, but academic careers, residence, monthly income, frequency of participation in leisure activities and the contents of leisure activities in which they were participated are overall impacted.
That means rural women have the less academic careers, feel the more limited in leisure activities, while the Myeon(Village)-resident women feel the more limited in leisure activities than Eub(Hamlet)-resident women and the lower income rural women feel more limited in leisure activities.
And in the result of searching for the perception gap limited factor of leisure activities between frequency of the participation in leisure activities, the less frequent participated women revealed the more limited feelings in leisure activities.
In relation to types in leisure activities, the group of chiefly enjoying recreation and relaxation showed more limited feelings than the group of taking exercise or playing a sport.
Concerning to rural women's self-esteemed feeling, the index showed 3.36 points in the full mark of 5 points which was not so highly indicated. The difference in the items of ages, residence, frequent participation in leisure activities and types of leisure activities was not shown to a great extent, in the self-esteemed feeling item, while the difference of academic careers, monthly income, frequent participation in leisure activities was revealed to some extent.
Rural women's living quality was shown comparatively noteworthy as 3.52 in the full mark of 5. The living quality as well as self-esteemed feeling did not show a notable difference to the items of ages, residence, frequent participation in leisure activities and types of leisure activities but academic careers, monthly income, frequent participation in leisure activities revealed a notable difference.
In a word, the more academic careers and monthly income rural woman was getting, the higher standard was getting self-esteemed feeling and living quality, while in frequent participation in leisure activities, the more frequent participation of leisure activities, the more self-esteemed feeling and living quality.
In the correlation with frequent participation of leisure activities, limitation of leisure activities, self-esteemed feeling and living quality, the rural women participated frequently in leisure activities feel the less limitation of leisure and have high sense of self-esteemed feeling and living quality.
We can also, aware that the more rural women feel the limited sympathy for leisure, the less they feel self-esteemed feeling and living quality, while the more highly esteemed they feel self-esteemed feeling, the more positively they recognize their own living quality.
In the result of inspecting with a medium effect, frequent participation in leisure activities impacted notably positive upon self-esteemed feeling. And self-esteemed feeling also revealed to impact notably positive upon living quality.
Finally, in the result of analyzing the course, this study also can aware that there was a sheer medium of self-esteemed feeling between frequent participation of leisure activities and living quality.