The purpose of this study is to clarity how different the propensity of exercise addiction for the members in a volleyball club is according to social demographic characteristics and the level of participation in club activities and help them joyful l...
The purpose of this study is to clarity how different the propensity of exercise addiction for the members in a volleyball club is according to social demographic characteristics and the level of participation in club activities and help them joyful leisure time for individuals' healthy life by leading the exercise addiction from negative aspects to positive aspects, helping Sport-for-all volleyball leaders put this study to practical use effectively.
The subjects are the members of Sport-for-all volleyball clubs in activity centering around ChungNam area and the data from total 264 subjects including 172 of male and 92 of female are used for actual analysis, using random sampling.
To figure out the relationship with exercise addiction, survey questionnaires are used as a research method and they consist of 5 questions for social demographic characteristics and 3 for the level of participation which are a scale to check the personal characteristics as a frist step. In addition, to check the level of exercise addiction, 33 questions about factors of exercise addiction in total 72 questions from An Exploratory Study for the Development of Leisure Sports Addiction Scale by Shin, Kyu-Lee(1999) and another 33 questions from A Study on the Exercise Addiction according to the Exercise Level for Marathon Club Members by Park, Kwang Jin(2002) are used after being modified for this study. This scale consists of 3 factors including 13 questions for withdrawal symptoms, 12 for exercise desire, 8 for emotional attachment and the answer type is 5 Likert scale, which has "strongly disagree" with 1 point and "strongly agree" with 5 points. In addition, the method from Park, Kwang Jin(2002) is used for classifying the exercise groups. The group with over 52 points for withdrawal symptoms, over 48 for exercise desire, and over 32 for emotional attachment are classified into exercise addiction. The group with under 39 points for withdrawal symptoms, under 36 for exercise desire, and under 24 for emotional attachment are classified into no exercise addiction. The data processing is conducted using SPSS WIN 16.0 statistic program with significance level a=.05. Factor analysis is used for verifying the validity and reliability, and Frequency analysis for checking social demographic characteristics. To verify the difference of average between groups, t-test and one-way ANOVA are used and Duncan test is used as post-verification. To find out the relationship between the level of participation and exercise addiction, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis are used.
Based on these methods, the results from examining exercise addiction according to the level of participation in activities for the members of sport-for-all volleyball clubs are as following.
First, in the sport-for-all volleyball club members, the exercise addiction group shows the percentages of 6.1% for withdrawal symptoms, 8.7% for exercise desire, and 9.8% for emotional attachment.
Second, for the difference in exercise addiction according to social demographic characteristics(withdrawal symptoms, exercise desire, and emotional attachment), there is no significant difference between male and female. The exercise addiction according to age shows a significant difference with the exercise desire and withdrawal symptoms and the one according to education level shows a significant difference with withdrawal symptoms, exercise desire, and emotional attachment. According to occupations, significant differences are shown with withdrawal symptoms and emotional attachment and according to family income, with all three characteristics.
Third, the difference in exercise desire according to the level of participation in the volleyball club activities is shown as a factor which has a significant effect on the participation time and frequency. It is shown that the difference in withdrawal symptoms according to the level of participation also has an significant effect on the participation time and frequency. Additionally, the difference in emotional attachment shows significant differences all in the participation time, frequency and history.