The purpose of this thesis is to make a suggestion to encourage women's leisure activities by looking through the degree of the women's participation in the leisure activities and the degree of their satisfaction for leisure activities, and to provide...
The purpose of this thesis is to make a suggestion to encourage women's leisure activities by looking through the degree of the women's participation in the leisure activities and the degree of their satisfaction for leisure activities, and to provide the fundamental data to establish the women's leisure policy and to be necessary for the training of leisure.
To achieve this purpose of study, this study performed not only the literature study but also the empirical study. The objects of the study are 250 women in the twenties and thirties who lived in Incheon. Among the total 250 questionaries which had been distributed and got back, 241 questionnaires remained and were analyzed finally, except 9 which were replied insincerely.
The data collected for the study were analyzed by using SPSS program and the frequency and percentage, as the analytic techniques, were used to understand the general characteristics of the study objects. In addition, Chi-square verification, t-test and One-way ANOVA were practiced to identify the content and satisfaction of leisure activity, and the degree of satisfaction for participation in the leisure activity according to the general characteristic of the objects.
The result of the study which was decided from through these procedures are as follows.
Firstly, in the contents of leisure activities, the leisure activities in which the women took part most were game and other activities. As they were younger, their number of participation and degree of daily participation in game and other activities were high. The activities which they wanted to participate in most was a sport and the main motivation and purpose of leisure activities were to release a stress. They usually took the leisure activities at home arid at a sports center in order. As they were younger, their degree of participation in the activities with their friend was high and they didn't have time enough to participate in the activities but as they were older, they participated in the activities with their family and club, and they didn't participate in the activities because there were not the facilities and places enough to be able to use around their house. They thought that the lopsided facilities for leisure activities should be dispersed for their smooth activities.
Secondly, studying the style and the degree of satisfaction of leisure activities, there were various factors of leisure satisfaction; psychological, educational, social, comfortable, physiological and environmental factors. Among them the psychological factor was the highest. As they were students and their educational level were high, their degree of satisfaction for their leisure life was high.
Thirdly, in the degree of participation in the leisure life, they were satisfied with the present leisure activities and as they were in the twenties, single, student and their educational level was high, their degree of satisfaction was high.
The following result was decided from the above result of analysis.
Firstly, the participation in the leisure activities was high according to demographical characteristic and according to their jobs and educational level in order, except according to age, yes or no of marriage and the income level.
Second, the frequency of participation in the leisure life didn't: have the significant difference statistically but the group who participated everyday in a week was satisfied more than any other groups.
The above result showed that the participation in the leisure life improved the degree of satisfaction for leisure.
According to this, it is proposed that the satisfactory facilities and equipment for the leisure activities should be provided or the better leisure activities and home and community should try to make women participate in leisure activities positively. Finally, the successive development of the program for leisure activities which are proper for women's properties and need should be performed.