Subjective happiness index of Korean youth people remained in the lowest consecutively for 3 years as 65.98 among OECD 23 countries(Bang Jung Hwan foundation-research institute, Yonsei university, 2011). In addition, according to the research report o...
Subjective happiness index of Korean youth people remained in the lowest consecutively for 3 years as 65.98 among OECD 23 countries(Bang Jung Hwan foundation-research institute, Yonsei university, 2011). In addition, according to the research report on actual condition of human rights of Korean children and teenagers of National Youth Policy Institute, it showed that 1 out of 4 children and teenagers felt unhappy, the reasons were academic burden(36.3%), worries about the future(18.6%) and non-fellowship home(11%), they said that the causes of stress for recent 1 year were academic burden(87.1%), worries about the future(58.4%), appearance and physical condition(45.4%), nine out of 10 students in normal high school, 1 out of 2 students in elementary school said to get the stress form academic burden. It has been reported that the happiness index of students who was residing in Seoul showed 3.83 out of 5 points, as the grade was higher, the happiness index decreased(Seoul metropolitan office of education, 2012).
The severity can be emphasized because it can escalate into social adjustment or crisis situation of youth people rather than this low subjective happiness appeared only "less happy" as physical state. Therefore, I recognize the problem of youth people's happiness as whole social problems rather than the level of individual life's satisfaction and the access to several policy ways was attempted in the country.
However, this policy becomes the confusion of operators, teachers and students in school since this policy is lack of understanding the meaning of free time given to young people and an alternative to the efficient use of time in policy preparation, and radical change of direction rather than gradual improvement suitable for each school-grade situation in policy implementation. In addition, increased free time can be seen as other problems such as expensive private lesson for entrance examination or weekend boarding school's prevalence due to focusing on only the increase of free time without considering the quality on leisure life of youth people.
This study started from the problem to activate any leisure activities, promoting leisure activities for happy life of young people. In particular, ultimately it was to seek for the ways to improve the level of adolescents' happiness and academic·political challenges in related field with social network.
I decided to limit the range of youth people that are the subjects for the study as "more than 4the grade of elementary school to less than a high school students", the sampling of the group was done based on pre-percentage assignment in each gender, grade. The research method was primary internet research and secondary questionnaire collecting way, 1.046(final response rate 83.4%) were used in the final analysis.
The analysis of data collected used SPSS WIN 18.0 program. In analytical method, the general characteristics of the subjects were analyzed through Frequency Analysis, and leisure activities hours, social network and subjective happiness characteristics of the subjects were analyzed using Descriptive Statistics. In addition, reliability analysis and 'Factor Analysis' were carried out to verify reliability and validity of the scale such as social network, leisure activities and subjective happiness of young people that were key factor in this study. I choose to raise Euclid distance as a similarity measure, 'K-means Clustering' was applied carrying forward non-hierarchical analysis to obtain more sophisticated result by reviewing coagulation factor and Dendrogram from the results. Moreover Regression analysis was conducted to investigate factors to affect the level of subjective happiness.
Cross-Analysis was conducted to identify general characteristics and distribution of social network according to each group by leisure activities types, X2 verification was conducted to check the meaningful characteristics of the difference. And one-way ANOVA was implemented to analyze the difference of leisure time spent in each leisure activities type, social network scores and the level of subjective happiness, Duncan-test was done as post-test.
The findings are summarized as follows:
First, the result to check the difference in the general characteristics of youth people showed a significant difference statistically in gender, grade, the higher level of education of father, father's job, mother's job. Particularly, the results to check by departmentalizing the activities made during leisure time showed the difference between groups in online leisure activities time, outdoor activities time, TV watching time. Especially, in case of the type of over immersion on cyber leisure and the type of indoor and outdoor activities variety, noticeable difference can be seen, in case of the type of over immersion on cyber leisure, the highest values were online leisure activities time and TV watching time, while the type of indoor and outdoor activities variety showed relatively high values in other activities except for TV watching time. Thus you can the difference in terms of the amount of leisure time (how much is consumed?) and quality (how to spend?) by the type of leisure activities.
Second, the analysis on the scores gap of social network showed a significant difference by the type in relationship with school teacher, private educational institute teacher, mother, father except for relationship with friends. Cluster analysis of social network can be done as the type of conflict in relationship with mother/ the type of passive relationship/the type of expanding in network/ the type of absence relationship with friends-mother/ the type of potential conflict to analyze social network according to the type of leisure activities by space of youth people, the results to check leisure activities type by space of youth people and the distribution of network showed statistically significant(p<0.001). The concrete analysis, the type of over immersion on cyber leisure showed the most in case of the type of conflict in relation with mother(40.5%), the type of potential conflict(31.4%), the type of passive relationship(32.4%). Meanwhile, the type of expanding in network was the most in case of belonging to the type of indoor and outdoor activities variety(32.0%), the type absence in friends-mother showed the type of passive relationship(31.2%) was more. Thus depending on the type of leisure activities, there was a notable difference in the social relationship of youth people.
Third, the analysis on the difference of the level of subjective happiness according to the type of leisure activities by space of youth people showed a statistically significant difference(p<0.001). As a result of matching hypothesis that the difference will be in the level subjective happiness of youth people depending on the type of leisure activities, in-depth study on the type of leisure activities of youth people will be needed to increase the level of subjective happiness of youth people. In addition, various leisure activities to promote the level of happiness of youth people are required getting out political limits to remain in the increase of free time based on such studies.
Fourth, according to the type of leisure activities, there was the difference of the influence on the level of subjective happiness in the social relationship of adolescents, I could confirm that there was the difference in social relations affected by the level of subjective happiness by the type of leisure based on these results, require more in-depth qualitative search about the increase-decrease of the level of subjective happiness for any reason specifically.
Fifth, I investigated the relative influence of the general characteristics, social relations and the type of leisure activities on the level of subjective happiness. As expected, the findings showed as the relationship with social network was better, the level of subjective happiness was higher, in particular, a big influence on the relationship with school teachers was analyzed. The results of this analysis was to confirm that factors called the type of leisure of youth people had explanatory ability in social network and the level of subjective happiness beyond confirming most previous studies that affected social network and the level of subjective happiness of youth people.
In this study, I examined the type of leisure of current adolescents for concrete policy measures. First of all, weekday-weekend leisure time increased due to the focus on the increase of leisure time of young people, but I found that they were still passive in terms of leisure activities, remaining on the type of fragmentary leisure. In this study, especially analysis of the difference in the level of subjective happiness according to the type of leisure activities of adolescents was confirmed that the type of active participation in leisure and the type of indoor and outdoor activities variety were the highest in the level of subjective happiness, In the general discussion that existing leisure life affected subjective happiness of youth people one step further, it was significant for the study in that the difference in the level of subjective happiness was confirmed according to the type of leisure activities. In addition, it was meaningful in that leisure activities has an effect on subjective happiness increasing as a specific result of leisure activities' positive impact on youth people.
And it was meaningful in that leisure of adolescents by social statistical factors (father-mother's job, educational level), the difference was remarkable. It was important in that the type of leisure which had an influence on promoting adolescents' happiness was confirmed and the need for the government's policy approach to adolescents' leisure life was identified not to occur leisure alienation by hierarchical leisure.
Various discussions on approach to the program's development for improvement on the quality of leisure activities of youth activities focusing on various policy on leisure activities to continue active and positive leisure life as well as increasing the amount of leisure time were tried as a way of leisure policy to promote subjective happiness of young people in this study based on these results.