• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.623-639
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• 2020

This study explores the factors associated with the amount of time use in leisure and social gathering activities. The analysis shows that the engaging role types of the youth, for example housekeeping and care giving, or working on the paid job are associated with the amount of time use in leisure activities. However, the factors related to time use in social gathering activities are the engaging role types of youth as well as the socializing opportunity. Compared to the other role types of the youth, the youth who are preparing for a job and is not engaged in employment, education, and training(NEET) spend more time in media leisure, travel and cultural activities, sports and reports activities, however spend less time in social gathering compared to students. The youth who have a job spend the least time in all of the leisure activities except travel and cultural activities for a weekend. Policy should remove the barriers in leisure activities and increase the opportunities for socializing.

• 한국노년학
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.675-687
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• 2012

This study is aimed to investigate the difference of leisure time use of elderly groups clustered with demographic factors and finally produce the leisure profile. A total 5392 time diaries, filled up by 65-years old and over in 2009 Time Use Survey, were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, correlation, cluster analysis, and ANOVA accompanied with the Scheffe's tests. The subjects could be clustered into 7 groups such as still working, work than leisure, hobby with friends, various leisure in a city, with religion and friendship, working and doing leisure in their spare time, and leisure in suburb based upon demographic factors such as age, gender, spouse, education, job, income and living area. The data also revealed that the clusters had different time use patterns in pursuing leisure. Overall, leisure in later life could be influenced by working status, and play an important role in filling their loss of job or spouse. The findings could help us plan upcoming leisure program and policies for the elderly.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.425-436
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• 2012

This research aims to investigate the life-style and types of leisure experienced among airline flight attendants during temporary stays abroad. In this study 2 hypotheses based on literature reviews were employed. Questionnaires were also developed based on data collected from previous studies. Subjects of the study were focused on flight attendants in Legacy Airlines. Factor analysis and reliability coefficients were used to examine the internal consistency among variables. Seven dimensions of leisure, which are cultural experience, pursuit of success, social orientation, humanity, pursuit of fashion, shopping preferences and health-orientation were identified from factor analysis. Three dimensions of leisure, which include type of rest, type of sports, and activity of tourists, were identified from factor analysis accordingly. Lifestyle factors were extracted from a result of cluster analysis, cluster 1- Passive lifestyle, Active lifestyle community type 2, and Cluster 3 analyzed Self-satisfied lifestyle types. Airline cabin crew workers involved in the life style analysis can make good use of leisure time.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.37-48
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• 2003

The major purpose of this study is to examine how korean elderly people spend their leisure time in a day In order to do this, we analysed the time dairy which were collected through the national investigation made by Korea National Statistical Office in 1999 and executed the frequency analysis, the One-way ANOVA and the Duncan's post hoc test. Major findings are as follows; First, Korean elderly people spent their leisure time passively and negatively Especially, they spent their most leisure time watching TV. Second, Those who were male elderly people, had their spouses and their own cars, and lived in an urban area etc, spend their leisure time executing positive leisure activity such as self-development activity and sports activity.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.241-263
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• 2013

Time pressure and financial burden have been reported as the main constraints on leisure participation. The purpose of this study was to explore a typology of leisure constraints, investigate the characteristics of leisure constraint types, and analyze the differences in leisure participation by the types of leisure constraints for married employees. The data source for this research was the 2009 Time Use Survey conducted by the Korea National Statistical Office (KNSO). Married employees aged 20 to 59 years completed 13,476 time diaries (7,984 for male, 5,492 for female), which were analyzed using chi-square, cluster analysis, and ANOVA analysis. Leisure constraints were classified into five types in two categories, working time per week and personal income for both males and females respectively. The three types for both males and females were time-income constraints, income constraints, and general constraints, with an additional type for men, $time^+$-income constraints, and an additional type for women, time constraint. The most common type was general constraints, for both males and females. Each type was further differentiated by the following socio-economic variables: age, educational level, job type, and weekly day-off. The study found that participation in study, sports, and religious activities varied with the types of leisure constraints.

• The Journal of Korean society of community based occupational therapy
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.97-104
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• 2012

Objective : This research was conducted in order to identify the influence of leisure activity by the spinal cord injury(SCI) on quality of life and present it as evidence for occupational therapy intervention. Methods : The experiment was conducted from October 2010 to March 2011 and was subjected 120 SCI of 9 administration. In use of SPSS 12, 94 samples from 120 SCI were analysis by freqency analysis, T-test and One-way ANOVA. Results : The satisfaction of leisure depending on SCI level and level of paralysis had a significant differences statistically(p< .05). Conclusion : From the research, it was identified that satisfaction of leisure can be improve depending on the level of injury and classification of paralysis, and leisure activity is related to the satisfaction of leisure and quality of life.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.81-89
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• 2008

Because of the development of modern medical science and increased longevity of elderly due to better health care: we are facing a new growing generation of "silver" senior citizens. In near future we will see a slow increase in senior spare time activities in our society. In this study the types of the spare time activities are researched and analyzed. Over the age of 60 most seniors spend ample time watching television and sleeping. Amazingly, in the second age group, seniors aged forty to fifty, when shown to the wonders of internet and cyber technology tend to accept and desire it. It is expected be seen this trend will increase. Secondly, in the case that seniors in their forties and fifties are entering into the silver generation, we can expect more promising multimedia content developed for the elderly.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.291-306
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• 2012

The Purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of the leasure activity and social support of the elderly people on their psychological well-being and the moderating role of social support. For this study, data were collected from 347 old people participating in the leasure activity programs operated by 10 facilities for the aged in Seoul, using structured questionnaires. Hierarchical regression analysis technique was used as a main data analysis method for hypothesis test. This study found that productive leasure activity had a beneficial effect on psychological well-being of the elderly measured in terms of life satisfaction and loneliness, whereas consumptive leasure activity had a positive effect only on life satisfaction; that, with regard to social support, spouse support had the most important effect on life satisfaction, followed by friend support and children support, whereas friend support had the most important effect on loneliness, followed by spouse support; and that the relationship between productive leasure activity and life satisfaction was moderated by spouse support and friend support, whereas the relationship between productive leasure activity and loneliness was moderated by friend support.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.227-235
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• 2015

The aim of this study was to identify the type of occupational balance of college students and analyze the differences between positive or negative emotions according to degree of flow. The Experience Sampling Methods (ESM) were conducted for 12 college students using smart phones. As a result, in activities of daily living group, apathy showed the highest percentage (34%) and in over work group, flow showed the highest percentage (41%). In occupational balance group, frequency of labor and leisure activities was high but boredom was experience a lot in leisure activities. When the students experienced flow in main activities, mean score of positive emotions showed the highest value. Through this study, we identified the differences of flow experience in occupational performance based on type of occupational balance and confirmed improvement of positive emotions in activities experienced flow.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.9
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• pp.536-548
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• 2017

This study aimed to investigate the effect of leisure satisfaction on psychological wellbeing. The study conducted a survey of people aged 65 and over from five seniors welfare center located in Seoul and Gyeonggi area. The results were as follows. First, the leisure satisfaction by demographic characteristic had shown significantly difference partially in gender, education level, and leisure types. Second, the psychological wellbeing by demographic characteristic had shown significantly difference partially in gender, age, and education level. Third, the leisure satisfaction had a significant effect on the psychological wellbeing partially and it was confirmed that the leisure satisfaction was a mightily important factor to increase psychological wellbeing and Quality of Life.