성인여성의 요가 참여가 심리적 행복감과 생활 만족도에 미치는 영향 = (The)effect which adult women's participation in yoga practising has on psychological well-being and life satisfaction

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Yoga, as a replacement therapy, has been in the limelight, especially in the US and Europe, with respect to healing a range of diseases from which today's people suffer. This is due to the fact that the way in which yoga is carried out is comprised of the fundamental anatomical knowledge of human body. With some posture and proper breathing method only, yoga has a characteristic of having many kinds of positive effects both physically and psychologically, for instance.
What underlie the purpose of this research are, first, to analyse psychological well-being and life satisfaction of adult women following their participations in yoga practices; second, on the basis of the previous analyses, to define whether the practices have given the women positive influences on their social or everyday lives; and last, to henceforth provide basic data which help adult women grasp the usefulness of yoga.
‘The following is the research's three main tasks:
1. The research distinguishes between the differences of psychological well-being and life satisfaction in accordance with general characteristics of the women taking part in the yoga practices;
2. The research distinguishes between the differences of psychological well-being and life satisfaction in accordance with the women's yoga participation levels; and
3. The research clarifies the influences which the women's psychological well-being has on their life satisfaction.
There are two predominant methodologies adopted in order to reach the paper's meaningful conclusions which are soon to be mentioned. The criteria applied for establishing and analysing relationships between psychological well-being and life satisfaction are how old the women are and whether they have jobs or not (the aspects of population sociology), and how often and how long they partake in the yoga practices (the aspects of practice types). To analyse the relationship between the yoga practising and life satisfactory, the work employs the interrelatedness analysis and multiple regression analysis.
As a result, the research comes to draw the following conclusions.
1. The yoga practising of adult women appears to differ according to their population sociological characteristics. Plus, it generally seems as though women in their 20s and 30s show high participation. Which can be interpreted that they practise yoga because they take trends seriously and have high interest in physical appearance to look prettier and slimmer.
2. The changes according to how many yoga sessions they participate in per week imply that those do five times have better effects than those do three times. In the case of the former, it reads as if not only do they come to know better about how to perform yoga properly, but become more aware of how to engage themselves in their practices so that they can sense the effects of their yoga practices more sensitively.
3. It has turned out that those who practise yoga for over six months show significant differences. In practising yoga, most people have tendencies to expect good results within a relatively short period of time. As this is not usually the case, however, they move on to some different practices or even to giving up before they actually experience yoga's positive effects. What the research suggests is that the short-sighted tendency as such must be overcome. That is, an adult woman expecting to gain positive effects from practising yoga should continue it at least more than six months to achieve anticipated results such as improving the breathing control, maintaining the positive mind and right posture, and eventually enjoying the happy life.
4. It has been proved that those factors according to whether the adult women have their own jobs or not such as confidence, sybaritic pleasure, self-realisation, and changes in engagement do not show meaningful differences. That the effect of yoga has not shown any remarkable differences means that the yoga practising has pretty much the same effect on the women regardless of their job statuses, which can be considered to be very positive.
5. As a consequence of having sought to see possible differences of the psychological well-being according to personal characteristics, some meaningful statistical differences in confidence, engagement, sybaritic pleasure, which are low-rank factors of psychological well-being, are detected. Also, the results of posteriori tests show that all the age groups of 20s and 30s have differences in the confidence and engagement from that of 50s and above, and that they have differences in the sybaritic pleasure from that of 40s~50s.
6. It can be said that yoga has had positive effects on the psychological well-being and life satisfaction of the adult woman practising it. In other words, the improvement of psychological well-being achieved by practising yoga affects positively the overall life satisfaction including the self-awareness of her sound body, her self-esteem, the satisfaction with her family members and her sociability. What this implies is that such positive influences come to expand to the sphere of her social life so that the practising of yoga can have its own social utility of forming good ― both physically and mentally ― members of a given society.
Therefore, yoga helps those who, by themselves, endeavour to form positive habits to live with right attitudes, and reduces the physical fatigue. Moreover, it leads them to seek mental relaxation and tranquility. It also has positive influences on the life satisfaction, and meanwhile improves the quality of their overall physical conditions and social lives. Consequently, it can be argued that yoga is today's very desirable body-mind training method.
On the basis of the conclusions that have been drawn so far, this study wishes to make the following suggestions.
First, it is crucial that the subsequent researches distinguish between the control group and the experimental group, and carry out their comparisons and analyses. Plus, it appears to be essential that they take more various approaches to selecting research tools.
To reiterate, as concluded above, not only does the practising of yoga help one try to establish positive and constructive habits to live with right attitudes, but reduces the physical fatigue. It also brings about mental relaxation and tranquility which give rise to the satisfaction of one's everyday lives. The improvement of psychological well-being achieved by practising yoga as such has positive influences on the overall life satisfaction including the self-awareness of her sound body, her self-esteem, the satisfaction with her family members and her sociability, which then makes very positive contributions to forming good members of society.
Hence, it can be claimed that yoga, with the acknowledgement of its unique social utility and usefulness, must be vitalised in a far more systemised way, and disseminated to the much more varied age groups in the public.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 제 1장. 서 론 1
• 제 1절. 연구의 필요성 및 목적 3
• 제 2절. 연구의 문제 4
• 제 3절. 연구의 제한점 4
• 제 4절. 용어의 정의 5
• 제 2장. 이론적 배경 8
• 제 1절. 요가의 개요 8
• 제 2절. 성인여성의 특성 15
• 제 3절. 심리적 행복감 17
• 제 4절. 생활 만족도에 개념 23
• 제 5절. 선행연구 25
• 제 3장. 연구방법 29
• 제 1절. 연구대상 29
• 제 2절. 조사도구 30
• 제 3절. 조사절차 36
• 제 4절. 통계처리 36
• 제 4장. 연구 결과 및 논의 38
• 제 1절.인구통계학적 특성에 따른 심리적 행복감과 생활만족도의 차이 38
• 제 2절.요가 수련참가정도에 따른 심리적 행복감과 생활만족도의 차이 45
• 제 3절.요가 수련참여 성인여성의 심리적 행복감이 생활만족도에 미치는 영향 48
• 제 5장. 결론 및 제언 51
• 제 1절. 결론 51
• 제 2절. 제언 54
• 참고문헌 56
• 부록 63
• ABSTRACT 66