• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.121-142
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to resolve the factors that affect happiness levels and leisure life satisfaction of middle-class and to find way to incorporate them into policy. In this study, a status analysis on leisure life and One-Way ANOVA conduct a study on leisure resource and income levels that affect the happiness level and leisure life satisfaction. To recap briefly, to reduce the social and cultural polarization caused by economic disparity and to promote leisure life satisfaction and happiness level is possible quantitative-qualitative growth and maturation of middle class. The most important thing here is increasing in leisure time and leisure costs that consumed in real leisure life. In other words, leisure life satisfaction and happiness levels in the middle class has seen a significant difference in depending on whether and how much to spend on leisure time and cost, rather than differences of the monthly average household income. More particularly, analysis results seem to hoping of the extra leisure costs about 50,000 won per person and increasing the leisure time on weekdays and long weekend holiday. Above all, It is important to redefine the middle class that meets the recognition of the people and it should reflect government policy. Ultimately, The state of the socio-economic-welfare policies will be further expanded in the direction for the middle class, thinking of themselves as middle class and leading national consciousness.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.157-182
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to examine direct and the indirect path of social leisure activity to life satisfaction of the elderly, through comprehensive approach. I analyzed data collected 531 old people in Seoul metropolitan area on SPSS 18.0 and AMOS 7.0 It was found that the participation in any social leisure activity including leisure program, voluntary activity, religious activity and bonding networks impact indirectly to the old people's life satisfaction through the leisure satisfaction and loneliness. However, only one activity, voluntary activity, impacted directly to life satisfaction. The leisure satisfaction and loneliness played partial-mediation role between voluntarily activity and life satisfaction. From the results of this study, we can know the policy to life satisfaction for the elderly in aging society and the strategies to manage the leisure programs in social welfare agencies for the elderly.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.275-288
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• 1997

This paper has two purposes. the one was to find empirical patterns of rural and urban elderly's leisure activities, and the other was to test the effects of elderly's leisure activities on life satisfaction. the data were collected for 319 respondents aged over 50s who resided in Jeonbuk rural and urban areas. Through exploratory factor analysis, we found ten patterns of leisure activities. In addition, we conducted multiple regression analysis to test net effects of those leisure activities on life satisfaction. the results indicate that even no one pattern of leisure activities significantly influences the elderly's life satisfaction, controlling for social correlates (consisted of social structural, family relationship, personality, and socio-economic demographic variables). Rather, the respondent's level of health, level of economic status, and positive relationship with adult children have significant net effects on respondent's life satisfaction. This result suggests that the positive relationship between leisure activities and life satisfaction in the existing empirical studies might be spurious. We recommend that the further studies should conduct survey and analyze the data for affluent elderly residing in more urbanized areas.

• Journal of East-West Nursing Research
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.44-55
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• 2008

Purpose: This research concludes the 110 male and female elderlies who are over 60 years old in C welfare center of G city to examine the effect of self-esteem between leisure activity and life satisfaction. Method: The types of participation leisure consist of 20 questions in five different categories. To measure the value of life satisfaction, the scale of life satisfaction for the elderly which is developed by Choi (1986) is used. The self-esteem was measured by the scale developed by Rosenberg (1965) and translated by Jeon (1974). The data were analyzed by SPSS including frequency, ANOVA, Duncan, Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression. Result: There was significant relationship among leisure activity and life satisfaction (r= .410, p= .000), leisure activity and self-esteem (r= .432, p= .000) and life satisfaction and self-esteem (r= .765, p= .000). After testing how leisure activity has effect on the self-esteem, it appears to be 17.9% and after adding life satisfaction it increases to be 59.5%. Conclusion: Synthesizing all following results, there were needed to bepersonal and global effort in many ways to satisfy the economical need of the elderly, and more supports onincreasing participation of the elderly in leisure.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.771-783
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to investigate level of participation and satisfaction on leisure by the types of money attitudes in adults consumer, and to offer useful informations for improvement of leisure life. The data used in this study were collected from 449 adult consumers in Busan. The results of this study are as followings: 1. The attitude factors of adult consumers toward money are divided into six factors. And according to the factor points, five clusters are obtained. 2. Demographic variables which influenced on the types of money attitudes were the size of a family, the household monthly income, and the educational background. 3. The differences of level of participation on leisure according to the types of money attitudes were significant to participation level, participation time, participation cost and participation satisfaction in leisure. 4. The differences of satisfaction on leisure according to the types of money attitudes were significant to the monthly leisure expenditure. 5. The influencing variables of satisfaction on leisure according to the types of money attitudes showed differences by the various cluster types.

• 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.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.23-42
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to explore a typology of leisure participation, investigate determinants of leisure participation types, and analyze differences in life satisfaction by the types of leisure participation of the elderly. The data source for this research was the 2014 Time Use Survey conducted by the Korea National Statistical office (KNSO). The statistical methods for the analysis were mean, standard deviation, ANOVA, Duncan test, cluster analysis, and logistic regression analysis. Leisure participation were classified into five types based on five categories; social activities, religious activities, media, sports, time-spending activity. The five types were named "general", "insufficient", "religious oriented", "media oriented", and sports oriented" type. Gender, health condition were identified as important determinants for the types. Life satisfaction was different according to leisure participation type of the elderly. Religious oriented type showed the highest score of life satisfaction and media oriented type showed the lowest.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.79-95
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• 1997

The purpose of this empirical study is to examine the effects of middle-aged married women’s attitude and activity for leisure upon their life satisfaction. The samples were composed of 388 married women between 40 years and 59 years old, selected by age and local distribution. As the major findings of this study, the most decisive factors to enhance the life satisfaction are found as follows: First, the behavioral factor among the leisure attitudes is most affective to highten the life satisfaction. Second, self-development activity, friend-making activity and home-oriented activity are the most decisive factors in the category of participation rate of leisure activities. Third, in the types of leisure activities, leisure activity with husbands is the most affecting. Also, the economic factor of the samples was the most significant factor to affect the life satisfaction. The findings of this study provide some implications regarding the policies on the leisure facilities, leisure education programs, the governmental and social supporting systems, and the spontaneous efforts of women themselves to enhance the quality of life of the middle-aged married women.

• Journal of Family Resource Management and Policy Review
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.53-66
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• 2006

This study was designed to get basic informations for the purpose of making healthy leisure environment of college students, and which will improve the satisfaction of their school life. Five hundreds of college students in Daegu and Gyeongbuk area were questioned by, our questionnaire during April, 2005. The data of 405 students (165 men, 240 women) Were analyzed by SPSS WIN 12.0 program. The data of 210 were from Daegu and 195 were from Gyeongbuk area, The results are as follows, First, $80\%$ of those questioned spend their leisure time doing some activities and the satisfaction degree was medium... They get the informations about leisure mainly through internet and the purpose of their leisure activities, were, to get rid of stress. Second; It was shown that their main leisure activities were doing internet, meeting friends, and listening music on weekdays, meeting friends, watching movie and doing internet on weekend. The major activities of the students during vocation were meeting friends, doing internet, and watching TV. Third, the students are concern about their leisure life, and they think that leisure life make improve the quality of life. The last, there is a correlation between quite activities such as watching TV, and dynamic activities such as a mountain-climbing leisure life satisfaction on weekdays. On weekend, however, there is a correlation between dynamic activities such as sports and the leisure life satisfaction. Moreover, on summer (winter) break personal activities such as religious activities and the leisure satisfaction.

• 재활복지
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.121-140
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• 2017

The purpose of the this study was to investigate the association of the participation of leisure activities, leisure satisfaction and quality of life, and analyze the mediating effect of leisure satisfaction in the relationship between the participation of leisure activities and quality of life among people with disabilities. For the purpose, the data were collected by using non-random purposive and convenient sampling methods and 192 disabled people who reside in Daegu city and Kyungpook provinces filled out self-administered questionnaires for this study. Findings of the study indicated that there were statistically significant relationships among the participation of leisure activities, leisure satisfaction, and quality of life and active types of leisure activities such as physical activities, travel activities, and social participating activities were significantly related with leisure satisfaction and quality of life. In addition, the mediating effect of leisure satisfaction in the relationship between the participation of leisure activities and quality of life was statistically significant. Based on the findings of the study, possible practice implications for improving quality of life among disabled people and recommendation for further study were provided.