• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.109 no.2
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• pp.231-242
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• 2020

This study identified the types and features of forest leisure activities based on data from the Nationwide Survey on Forest Leisure Activities (N= 6,191). Further, the study analyzed the demographic impact factors of the categorized forest leisure activities according to four types of objectives reported by visitors: health promotion, education, relaxation, and leisure sports. The investigation revealed that people visit forests for relaxation regardless of the season; however, leisure-sports visitors engage in activities that occur in summer, are most expensive, and involve the shortest trip time. The study also found that age, gender, household incomes, and the presence of children were the most important factors influencing the selection of activities. Age was found the predominant consideration: the older the age was, the more likely people were to prefer the relaxation and health promotion type. Men were more likely to choose health promotion activities over relaxation and tended to prefer educational trips over relaxation when accompanied by children. Higher household incomes corresponded to an increased likelihood of visitor preferences for relaxation over education and for health promotion over relaxation. This study contributes to the extant literature by statistically determining the nationwide predominance of age as the principal factor driving visitor preferences for forest leisure activities. Future studies should establish policy directions for forest welfare from the perspective of users grouped into day visitors and overnight guests.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.239-240
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• 2013

이 연구는 중학생을 대상으로 여가활동과 스트레스 및 행복의 관계를 규명하는데 목적이 있다. 이를 위해 2,833명의 중학생을 표집 하였다. 통계 처리는 SPSSWIN 18.0을 활용하여 F검증을 실시하였다. 결론은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 여가활동 유형에 따라 스트레스는 차이가 있다. 즉, 부모스트레스는 취미 오락활동에서 높고 스포츠 문화관광활동에서 낮다. 성적 학업스트레스는 사회활동에서 높고 스포츠 문화관광활동에서 낮다. 외모스트레스는 휴식활동에서 높고 스포츠 문화관광 활동에서 낮다. 둘째, 여가활동유형에 따라 행복은 차이가 없다.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.39-52
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to examine the workday leisure time of dual-income fathers and mothers with preschool children. Data were gathered from the Statistics Korea Life Time Surveys from 2004(y1) and 2019(y2) (n=2,697). Life time was composed of three types(inevitable time, compulsory time, and leisure time) and leisure time was categorized into 11 activities(voluntarism, participation, social relationships, religion, rituals, culture and tourism, sports, game and play, media, rest, and others) to investigate gender differences and time effects. The major results were as follows: First, both working fathers and mothers with preschool children spent less inevitable time, more compulsory time, and less leisure time, than other adult group. Second, fathers spent more time on 10 leisure activities except religion in y1, and on all activities than mothers in y2. In y2, less time on three activities(social relationships, rituals, and media) for both fathers and mothers, less time on religion for mothers only, more time on two activities(participation, game and play) for both groups were spent than y1. Third, in the regression analysis of fathers' and mothers' leisure time on three leisure activities(sports, game and play, and media) with a distinct pattern from leisure time for adult group between y1 and y2, socioeconomic variables and lifetime variables showed different effects by gender and waves. Based on the results, family policy and programs to improve the work-life balances of working fathers and mothers discussed.

• The Journal of Korean society of community based occupational therapy
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.53-61
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• 2020

Objective : The purpose of this study was to find out the stress of vascular conditions and leisure activities for the elderly and the effect of stress problems on the vascular conditions of the elderly. Methods : The study surveyed 172 elderly people, conducted a validity and reliability analysis to organize items of leisure activities, analyzed vascular conditions and stress for leisure activities, and conducted a regression analysis to analyze stress factors affecting the blood vessel conditions of the elderly. Results : First, there was a significant difference in comparing the average value of vascular conditions for leisure activities in the elderly (p=.012) and sports activity was the most stable in vascular conditions. Second, there was a significant difference in comparing the average value of stress for leisure activities of the elderly (p=.035) and rest and other activities were higher than other activities. Third, the effect of stress problems in older people on vascular conditions has been shown to be influenced by financial difficulties and health problems. Conclusion : Leisure activities in older people can act as a factor in changing the quality of life. Older adults can expect improvement of vascular conditions and reduction of stress through leisure activities, especially sports activities have a high relationship of vascular conditions, and rest and other activities have a high relationship with stress. As a result, this study confirmed the importance of selecting and continuing participation in leisure activities for the elderly.

• Korea journal of population studies
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.57-84
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• 2008

This study investigates the patterns of leisure in Korea and the effects of social class on the objective and subjective dimension of leisure activities and life satisfaction. A data set of 1376 Korean men and women over 18 years old is analyzed to yield five main results. First, Korean prefers domestic entertainment to outdoor activities as is exemplified by domestic audio-visual entertainment(TV/DVD/VCR) which ranks the highest in the favored leisure activity. Leisure activities are divided into four types; "activity-based", "relationship-based", "alcohol-based", "relaxation". Second, the function of leisure activity is to strengthen relationships. The main purpose of leisure activity is to relax and revitalize, while creating prospective social network ranks next to relax. But the effect of leisure time is often compromised by recurring thoughts related to work. Third, respondents with high educational and economic backgrounds are more likely to engage in "relationship-based," "activity-based", "alcohol-based" leisure type. However, such factors do not influence on "relaxation" type of leisure. While students and housewives rank highest in number of respondents, respondents with managerial/professional or white-collar/semi-professional occupations enjoy more diverse activities. Fourth, the effort to discern the significance of social class with respect to the leisure-activity-index revealed followings; the index scores elevate with higher education, younger age and higher income. Fifth, leisure-activity-index is the most important variable predicting leisure satisfaction. Leisure satisfaction is influenced by gender, age, income and occupation. The younger the age and higher the income, the higher it is the leisure satisfaction. Men are more satisfied with leisure activities than women. Students experience the highest satisfaction with leisure activities while service/sales workers, industrial/technical/blue-collar workers shows the least satisfaction. Also, the number of family members decreases significantly the leisure satisfaction. While "activity-based" leisure induces the highest satisfaction, "alcohol-based" leisure produces the least satisfaction. The frequency and diversity of leisure activities, and "activity-based" leisure incur the most positive effects on the life satisfaction.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.135-153
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• 2007

Previous research in leisure motivation has been limited in terms of its overwhelming interest in beneficial outcomes of leisure activities, its short of coverage on wide range of modern leisure activities, and its lack of cultural perspectives. In order to overcome those limitations, the present research conducted a survey in which motives to participate in 48 leisure activities and frequency and importance of the activities were assessed. We categorized 7 categories of leisure activities (skill-involved, social, personal hobby, goal-oriented, relaxing, digital, and voluntary) and 7 categories of leisure motives (achievement, intimacy, psychological comfort, sensation-seeking, secondary, self-promoting, and no-fun). On the basis of the categorizations, momentary leisure motives and individual differences of the leisure motives were conceptualized and tested as a preceding factor of selection of leisure activities. This conceptualization was discussed in its practical implication of leisure education, consulting, and policy.

• 한국노년학
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.197-216
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• 2020

This study aimed to suggest leisure activities and policy-level support in the light of the characteristics and needs among the elderly by examining constraint factors of leisure activities among the elderly. Data of 3887 elderly with the age of 65 and above with economic burden and health problems from the 6th Korean Retirement and Income study were used for the statistical analyses. Hierarchical linear models were tested by entering factors stepswise; demographic factors(age, gender, marriage status, single household, region, living expenses, health status) in the first step, leisure factors(leisure time, leisure motivation) in the second step, and lastly leisure activity factors(desired leisure activities, undesired leisure activities) in the third step. The results were as follows: First, major factors that constrict leisure activities of the elderly were financial burden and health problems. Second, there were significant differences among three(financial constraint, health constraint, and financial and health constraint) groups. Financial constraint group was the highest in the level of leisure satisfaction but leisure time was the shortest. The major reason to do leisure activities of the financial constraint group was to keep relationships with families and friends. In terms of desired leisure activities, health constraint group wanted resting, financial constraint group wanted hobbies and entertainment, and the financial-and-health constraint group wanted social activities. Third, financial constraint group demonstrated higher levels of leisure activity satisfaction when they wanted to take care of pets or gardens; however, they showed lower levels of leisure activity satisfaction when they wanted to domestic trips for desired leisure activities. In case of health constraint group, they demonstrated lower levels of leisure activity satisfaction whether or not they wanted resting like watching TV or listening to the radio. And, the showed higher levels of leisure activity satisfaction when they wanted social activities such as participation in religion or social gathering organizations. For the financial-and-health constraint group, whereas they showed lower levels of leisure activity satisfaction when they wanted walking around or watching TV, and domestic trips for desired leisure activities, they demonstrated higher levels of leisure activity satisfaction when they wanted entertainment doing the game of go, or chess, and hobbies like hiking and social activities. Practice and policy level suggestions to offer leisure activities that meet the needs of the elderly were made based on the study results.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.388-399
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• 2009

This study is to analyze the views on leisure of security agents. As the subject of this study, the security agents holding office in the capital area in 2008 were selected and total 333 samples are drawn among them by using judgement sampling method. The validity of the questionnaire was verified through an expert group meeting. The statistical method is $x^2$ verification(Chi-Square Tests) using SPSSWIN 16.0. Following results are from the methods mentioned above. First, most of the security agents consider leisure as “rest" and they need it for “stress release". About the importance of work and leisure, the security agents mostly think “both work and leisure are important" and they regard leisure as a “very important" matter for an individual. Second, main leisure activities of the security agents are principally “social activities", while the frequency is “2 or 3 times a month", the time is “1-2 hours", and the period is “4-7 years" in general.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.12
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• pp.433-440
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• 2008

This study was to analyze the influence of the leisure constraints on leisure satisfaction. For research participants, 4 high-school students(2 males and 2 females) were participated by applying purposeful sampling. The students of the junior-senior high schools under the influence of the board of education of Chun-Cheon city as of 2008 have been chosen as the population. According to the methods of this study, the write visited the schools personally, explained the answers, and got them to answer each item for themselves by the self-administration method, Out of the total 300 questionnaires, 259 questionnaires have been collected, and the 259 questionnaires except the two whose answers are insincere or whose filling up is omitted have been chosen as the final examples. The collective data analyzed by Windows SPSS 12.0 version, which gives none, reliability analysis, factor analysis, regression analysis were used as statistic analysis techniques. The conclusions drawn through these methods and procedures of the study are as follows; First, the leisure constraints influences on psychological satisfaction. Second, the he leisure constraints influences on relaxational satisfaction.

• Journal of Platform Technology
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.30-43
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• 2022

The purpose of this study is to examine the structural dynamics between the leisure motivation, self-efficacy, and happiness of the elderly to provide a lesson and invigoration strategies for the systematic leisure activities of the elderly. This study was conducted with 366 baby boomers who use the elderly welfare centers located in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do, where the statistical analyses were conducted using SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 26.0. The findings of this study were as follows; First, of the leisure motivations of the elderly, those other than competency motivation, that is, intellectual motivation, social motivation, and recuperative motivation, had a significant impact on happiness. Second, all the motivations for the elderly, that is, intellectual, social, competency, and recuperative motivations, had a positive impact on self-efficacy. Third, the self-efficacy of the elderly had a significant and positive impact on happiness. Fourth, in the relationship between the intellectual, social, competency, and recuperative motivations and happiness, self-efficacy was shown to have a significant mediating effect. The findings of this study indicates that the elderly leisure welfare programs should be expanded in each local community, so that such programs could be used in various aspects to contribute to the enhancement of self-efficacy and happiness.