노인의 사회체육활동과 여가만족 및 고독감의 관계 = The contribution of participation in sports & exercise programs to leisure satisfaction and loneliness of the elderly

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

It had been proved theoretically in this study that active participation of the elderly in sports & exercise programs could eliminate loneliness through the experience of leisure satisfaction. The subjects of this study were 378 elderly who are 65 years old and over, living in Seoul metropolitan area and Pusan. Subjects were selected by the purposive sampling in order to meet the characteristics of subject samples those who are either actively and inactively engaged in sports & exercise programs as leisure activities.
Research instruments were devised by the researcher himself, pretested, and proved that contain content validity and reliability. They were 10 item revised UCLA loneliness scale, Beard & Ragheb' LSS (Leisure Satisfaction Scale), Csikzentmihalyi's Leisure Flow Scale that the research developed.
The major findings of this study were that the significant factors affecting the degree of loneliness of the Korean elderly were leisure satisfaction and active participation n sports & exercise programs and family satisfaction positively and directly. It was also found that the degree of loneliness had a close relationship with leisure satisfaction could be increased by the active sports & exercise programs as leisure activities to be influenced self-rated health, money satisfaction and family satisfaction. Therefore the active sports & exercise programs as leisure activities contributed to the increasing of leisure satisfaction and finally the diminishing loneliness of the Korean elderly.
Based on the results obtained from this study, I wish that it he researcher concerned with leisure activities or active participation of the elderly in sports & exercise programs discuss the future directions for the diminishing of the elderly's loneliness.
Withing its limitations, this study provided a testable model depicting the causal relationships among leisure participation, leisure satisfaction, and loneliness of the contemporary Korean elderly.