This research are concerned with the difference in exercise addiction among those who does aerobics in terms of their sex, age, social class, self-esteem and life satisfaction. Their exercise addiction, self-esteem scale and life-satisfaction were mea...
This research are concerned with the difference in exercise addiction among those who does aerobics in terms of their sex, age, social class, self-esteem and life satisfaction. Their exercise addiction, self-esteem scale and life-satisfaction were measured by Korean Scale which told us the following results. First, according to MANOVA, females had a higher self-esteem. In age, people in their 40s were on a higher scale in needs for exercise, withdrawal symptoms and attractive attachment. In social class, the upper class was on a higher scale in attractive attachment and life-satisfaction, the middle class was in self-esteem. In t-test for self-esteem and life-satisfaction, group who were higher on self-esteem scale were also higher on the sub-factors of exercise addiction, and group who were higher on life-satisfaction were higher on needs for exercise and attractive attachment. Second, according to the regression analysis, attractive attachment was related to exercise addiction which has an effect on self-esteem and life-satisfaction. This work was based on the previous studies related to exercise addiction, self-esteem and life-satisfaction.