The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of Line-Dance participants`` gender, age, and motives for participating on physical self-concept by analyzing 285 Line-Dance participants who are over 20 year old and have at least 3 months partic...
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of Line-Dance participants`` gender, age, and motives for participating on physical self-concept by analyzing 285 Line-Dance participants who are over 20 year old and have at least 3 months participating experience and participate in Line-Dance at least once a week by using SPSS 17.0 program with frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, Pearson``s correlation analysis, and regression analysis. Findings revealed the following things. First, men showed significantly high level of self-esteem, appearance, competence, and health in physical self-concept than women. Second, the twenties showed high level of appearance than the forties, and showed high level of competence, health, and self-esteem than the forties and fifties. The thirties showed high level of health and self-esteem than the fifties. Third, emotional motives have an positive(+) influence on self-esteem, and social motives have an negative(-) influence on self-esteem.