This research aims to clarify that how the elderly‘s dance activity enjoyment, psychological well-being influence on the alexithymia.
This research investigated the people those who are engaged in dance currently and who are women over fifty. Three...
This research aims to clarify that how the elderly‘s dance activity enjoyment, psychological well-being influence on the alexithymia.
This research investigated the people those who are engaged in dance currently and who are women over fifty. Three hundred people were chosen with Purposive Sampling, excluded 52 people who were not integrated with their answer to the sampling, and whose answers are biased. Finally 248 people’s data was used for analysis and was put into the registration electronically along with the purpose of the research.
The tool used is the well organized paper sheet based upon Self-administration method which was given to people and collected just right after answered. If the answer was not integrated with it and not reliable with it then the sheets having those answers removed from the sampling. The remains which were not removed from and which are possible to be analyzed were put into registration of computer system to analyze with SPSS PASW statistics 18.0, as followed bellows.
It’s been used in this research with reliability analysis, frequency analysis, one-way ANOVA, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis.
We concluded some results from using through these process and tools which are mentioned above, which are written as follows.
The first is that the degree how much the elderly female feels the dance activity enjoyment depends upon their personal characteristic. In other words, the feeling dance activity enjoyment of the different ages varies because of fun and instructor, fellowship, achievement, physical and emotional health, ability, and experience, and of which people who are get married or not varies according to physical and emotional health. Also the degree of the enjoyment of dance activity in related with subjective health can be affected by fellowship and ability.
The second is that the psychological well-being of the elderly age female is different from in partial because of personal characteristics. In other words, thepsychological well-being of that age can change according to self-acceptance, positive relationship, autonomy, control for surroundings, life purpose, and development differences of individuals. And in related with having job or not, it can change according to autonomy and control for surroundings, and in related with subjective health, changing according to self acceptance, positive relationship, control for surroundings, and life purpose.
The third is that the alexithymia can be different from in partial according to their personal characteristics. in other words, in related with age alexithymia can have variation according to emotion and the malfunction of sense organs, expressing feelings, and the problem with communicating, in the related with having job or not changing according to expressing and the problem with communication. Also it can change in the related with having their spouse or not according to their thinking toward outside, expressing emotions, and the problem with communication.
The forth is that in the related with having entertainment, the psychological well-being can be different in partial. In other words the entertaining factor which is fellowship, ability experience can affect on the self acceptance of psychological well-being, is that fellowship and achievement can affect on the positive relationship. Also it’s discovered that physical and emotional health can make effect on autonomy, control for surroundings, and life purpose, and that personal growth can make effect on ability experience.
The fifth the alexithymia can be different from according to the dance activity enjoyment. It’s that the fellowship which takes in the enjoyment of dance gives effects to emotion which caused by the alexithymia and, to sense organ disorder.
The sixth the alexithymia can be different from according to psychological well-being.
The autonomy and the control for surroundings which deciding the degree of psychological well-being can give effects on the emotion and the disorder of sense organs that caused the alexithymia. The autonomy and the personal development can give effects on expressing their feelings and the disorder of sense organs. Also the positive relationship, autonomy, and the control for surroundings can give effect on the thinking directed outward.
In conclusion based upon the results of this research, it verifies that the enjoyment of dance activity and psychological well-being of the elderly women are factors that can give effects on the alexithymia. This means that the factors - which make the old and middle female have fun in dancing are instructor, fellowship, achievement, physical and emotional health, ability experience, and the factors of psychological well-being, such as self acceptance, positive relationship, autonomy, the control for surroundings, life purpose, personal growth, have relationship with each other and can give effects on the emotion of the alexithymia, the disorder of sense organs, the thinking directed outward, and on expression of feelings and communication. It is significant that the result of this research could provide the general information to expand dance activity to the popular as a leisure sports.