The purpose of this study is to examine the causal relation among activity type, activity satisfaction, activity constraint, and university life satisfaction through circle activity which is the representative activity of university students.
For thi...
The purpose of this study is to examine the causal relation among activity type, activity satisfaction, activity constraint, and university life satisfaction through circle activity which is the representative activity of university students.
For this purpose, differences of activity type, activity satisfaction, activity constraint, and university life satisfaction according to sociodemographic characteristic, differences of activity type, activity satisfaction, activity constraint, and university life satisfaction according to activity type of circle, and causal relation among activity type, activity satisfaction, activity constraint, and university life satisfaction of circle were analysed. The subjects were undergraduates who registered for the second semester of 2002 from 9 universities which are located in Jeju province, Seoul Special City, Kwangju Metropolitan City, N. Gyongsang, S. Gyongsang, and N. Jeolla. Multistage cluster sampling method was used, and respondents were all 900 students among which 809 were for actual analysis. The instrument for collecting data was a question paper whose title is "Survey of Opinions about University Students' Circle Activity." Without a standardized measuring instrument to analyse the causes of activity satisfaction, activity constraint, and university life satisfaction systematically, an valid measure were pursued to verify and classify the causes of circle activity and university life satisfaction in the concrete. The validation of the collected data were verified through the factors analysis, and satisfactory reliability coefficients were gained. For the analysis of the collected data, the principal component analysis, factor analysis with oblimin rotation and multivariate analysis of variance, univariate ANOVA, Duncan multiple range test, multiple regression analysis, and path analysis were applied to the analysis of the collected data.
By these methods of study and process, the results through the data analysis were as follows.
First, there were significant differences among circle activity satisfaction, activity constraint, and university life satisfaction according to the sociodemographic characteristic.
Second, there were significant differences among activity satisfaction, activity constraint, and university life satisfaction according to circle activity type, and the activity satisfaction in health and sport activity was much higher than any other factors.
Third, there were a causal relationship among circle activity type, activity satisfaction, activity constraint, and university life satisfaction.
By the results above, it is concluded that the circle activity satisfaction of university students is the factor which has a direct effect on university life satisfaction, and it serves as a intervening variable between circle activity type and activity constraint, playing an important role in increasing the university life satisfaction.