Rural Youth's Leisure Activity and Measures for Activation

농촌청소년의 여가활동 활성화방안

The purposes of this study were to analyze rural youth's leisure activity and to suggest measures for activation. This study was conducted by review of literature and questionnaire, The data was collected from 1,209 stratified cluster random sampled rural youth who are in middle school and high school. To analyze the data, SPSS/WIN program was employed. The major finding of the study were as follows: 1) About 30% of rural youths had less than 1-2 hours for leisure activity in daily life and more than 8 hours for leisure activity during the weekend, and over 40% of rural youths had no plan for leisure activity. 1) They recognized that leisure activity made them enjoy common life, decrease their stress, and get new experience far self-development, 3) participation in sports, organized-activity and self-directed activity of the middle schools youths were higher compare to youths in high schools, 4) to activate leisure life, rural youths expected to get a) direct support for participating leisure activity expenses(27%), b) develop and diffusion of diverse and interesting leisure programs(23%), and c) securing appropriate leisure facilities(22%).