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The Effects of a Stay-type Hot Spring Trekking Health Tour on the Age-specific Positive Affect and Negative Affect Schedule

  • Ki-Hong Kim (Department of Recreation and Leisure Sports, Dankook University) ;
  • Ah-Reum Kim (Department of Sports Health Care, Dankook University) ;
  • Jun-Sik Park (Sports Science Institute, Dankook University) ;
  • Byung-Kwan Kim (Sports Science Institute, Dankook University) ;
  • Jae-Heon Son (Department of Sports Health Care, Dankook University) ;
  • Hwan-Jong Jeong (Department of Sports Health Care, Dankook University)
  • Received : 2024.10.10
  • Accepted : 2024.10.20
  • Published : 2024.11.30
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Abstract

The purpose of our study was to analyze the changes in positive and negative emotions when implementing a residential health tourism program that combined forest and hot spring environments for young and middle-aged people. To achieve the purpose of this study, we designed a health tourism program utilizing Yeonginsan National Recreation Forest and hot spring facilities located in Asan-si, Chungcheongnam-do. The subjects of the study were 10 young and middle-aged people (20s-30s) and 22 middle-aged people (40s-50s). The forest environment health tourism program included a 1-hour walk in Yeonginsan National Recreation Forest, and the hot spring environment health tourism program included a 1-hour hot spring bath in Asan Hot Springs. Afterwards, they stayed in a glamping facility exposed to the forest environment and did camping activities. In order to investigate the changes in positive and negative emotions, the PANAS (positive affect and negative affect schedule) questionnaire was conducted before and after the application of the health tourism program. As a result, positive emotions increased by only 2-30 seconds in all groups, and negative emotions decreased. In summary, forest and hot spring health tourism programs appear to be sufficiently helpful in relieving stress and emotional stability.

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Acknowledgement

This study was conducted with the support of the 'Hot Spring Medical Efficacy Verification Systematization Project (2024 Hot Spring City Development Project)' funded by Asan City in 2024.

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