The purpose of this study is to find a proper way to promote the Baby Boomer?s participation in leisure sports for their successful ageing. To achieve this goal, I divided the types of ageing awareness, and examined the effects of successful ageing ...
The purpose of this study is to find a proper way to promote the Baby Boomer?s participation in leisure sports for their successful ageing. To achieve this goal, I divided the types of ageing awareness, and examined the effects of successful ageing awareness on the attitude toward and the actual participation in leisure sports.
This study was conducted on a survey of Baby Boomers in the Seoul metropolitan area. A total of 496 questionnaires were used for this study, and various statistical methods -such as frequency analysis, normality of samples, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, model suitability analysis and path analysis- were used. SPSS 12.0 and AMOS 7.0 softwares were used for data processing. The results of this study are as follows.
First, daily stability of successful ageing awareness affects positively the cognition factor of the attitude toward leisure sports.
Second, daily stability of successful ageing awareness does not affect the emotional factor of the attitude toward leisure sports.
Third, daily stability of successful ageing awareness affects negatively the behavioral factor of the attitude toward leisure sports.
Fourth, social stability of successful ageing awareness affects all the factors of the attitude toward leisure sports.
Fifth, self󰠏efficacy of successful ageing awareness affects to behavioral factor of the attitude toward leisure sports.
Sixth, all the factors of the attitude toward leisure sports affect the intention of participation in leisure sports.
Seventh, no factors of successful ageing awareness affect the intention of participation in leisure sports.