With the assumption that the desirable leisure activities are required to prevant the high school students' misconducts and to tester their sound moral character, this study investigated and compared the present state of the high school students' leis...
With the assumption that the desirable leisure activities are required to prevant the high school students' misconducts and to tester their sound moral character, this study investigated and compared the present state of the high school students' leisure activities.
The subjects of this investigation are 774 students attending boys' and girls' high schools located in seoul and one south-western rural area in korea.
The comparisons are largely made on two aspects; one of them is regional comparision, the other is with respect to the gender of subjects.
The conclusions made in the this study are the followings:
1.The Preferred Type of Leisure Activities.
The favorate leisure activities which the boy students and the girl students in seoul area choose are 'sports'(90 boy students,45.45%), and 'watching films performances and music listening'(116 girl student 61.05%) respectively.
The boys and girls living in the rural area are shown to prefer 'sports'(58 boy Student.,30.20%), and 'watching fialms, performances and music listening'(91 girl students 46.90%) respectively.
2.The Reason of Leisure Activity Participation
The main reason why the boy students in seoul take part in the leisure activities is 'to reduce the stress from the routines'(68 students 34.34%). The girl students of the same area participate in the leisure activities mainly becouse they want 'to got refreshmant and rest'(86 students,45.26%).
In the case of rural area boy students, the main reason why they take participate in the leisure activities is identical to that of the boy students 'to reduce the stress'(83 students 43.22%). For the girl students of the rural area. however, 'self-contantment and security of life'(66 girl students,34.02%) are presented as the main reason of taking part in the leisure activities.
X2- verifacation shown that the difference is greatly significant for the girl students (p<.001).
3.Perceived Possibility of Leisure Activity Participation
The values of the perceived possibility of leisure activity paricipation are 3.24 ±0.57, and 3.08 ±0.49 respectively for the boy and girl students in seoul, and 3.28±0.61, and 2.98±0.47 respectively for the boys and girls in the rural area.
t-verifacation by the residental area shown a signiticant difference for the boy students (p<.001) and girl students (p<.01)
4.Degree of Immersion into Leisure Activities
The degree of immersion into leisure activities are 2.81 ± 1.01 for the boys in seoul, and 3.06± 1.01, for the girls in the same district. Those for the boys and girls living in the rural area are 2.97± 1.06 and 3.25±0.61, respectively.
t-verifacation shown no significant difference both from the aspect of region.
5.Degree of Satisfaction with the Leisure Activities
The values of satisfaction with the students' leisure activities 3.43 ±0.55 and 3.27 ±0.58 respectively for the boy students and girl students living in seoul. The values for the boys and girls in the rural area are 3-34 ±0.50, and 3.07 ±0.29 repectively.
t-verifacation by the residental area shown a significant difference for the girl students(p<.01).
From this study, We come to fond out that the high school students investigeted in this study take part in variouse kind of leisure activities. But the 'qualty' of the leisure activities is more imports then the 'quantity', that is it is required that we give more opportunities for the students to take part in the sound and productive leisure activities, while reducing the change of the students' participating in the degenerated and consumptive leisure activities.
Bosides, the 'enterance examination-oriented' educational environments of the present korea is giving the students much more stress than even before, and the insufficient facilities and space make most of the students feel it very invonvenient to take part in the leisure activities freely.
Accordingly, to save the students from the stress resulting from study and neverending examinations, and to give them refreshment and rest, it is required that we shoul lead them to more sound and productive leisure activities(such as watching sports games, taking trips and sight-seeing), and also provide them more space and facilities where they enjoy more varied kinds of leisure activities.
In short, to encourage the juveniles to take part in the sound and productive leisure activities, more drastic investment, the recognition of the importance activity, and consisting development of variouse and sound leisure activity programs are urgently needed.