This study is to identify leisure satisfaction configurations affecting self-esteem and sense of community of high-school students and suggest practical implications to facilitate their positive leisure activity at the level of family, school and gove...
This study is to identify leisure satisfaction configurations affecting self-esteem and sense of community of high-school students and suggest practical implications to facilitate their positive leisure activity at the level of family, school and government. Data for empirical analysis were collected from vocational high-school students in Seoul with age of 17-19 by questionnaire survey. Data were analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling method in order to validate measure items and verify 3 hypotheses. The results of empirical analysis revealed that the social and the emotional dimensions of leisure satisfaction have a significant effect on both self-esteem and sense of community, while the educational dimension positively affects self-esteem, partially supporting hypotheses 1 and 2. Unlike this, hypothesis 3, assuming positive causal relationship between self-esteem and sense of community was fully supported. These results mean that high-school students` leisure satisfaction, affecting self-esteem and sense of community of adolescences is mainly concerned with social and emotional dimensions of leisure. Based on the results the research discussed on how to do for improvement of high-school students` leisure circumstances at the family, school and government level.