This study lays its purpose on understanding exercise addiction and social adjustment of participants in leisure-typed physical activities (or leisure sport) by their participation levels through ascertaining the participants' propensity to exercise a...
This study lays its purpose on understanding exercise addiction and social adjustment of participants in leisure-typed physical activities (or leisure sport) by their participation levels through ascertaining the participants' propensity to exercise addiction by their demographic characteristics and degrees of participation, and then presenting the process of overcoming the addiction.
In order to do this, the subjects were 311 squash participants and squash club members mainly consisting of people in their 20s~50s in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, and for quantitative research, they were selected by the systematic stratified cluster random sampling method. In addition for qualitative research, 3 males and 6 females who expressed that they felt addicted to playing squash were selected as the subjects through squash instructors' opinions.
The questionnaire used in this study was consisted of items for demographic characteristics, exercise levels and degrees of the exercise addiction and distributed directed. The subjects were asked to respond to the questions by means of the self-administration method and then the completed questionnaires were collected. For the collected data, Frequency analysis, T-test and/or One-way ANOVA were performed depending on purposes. As a post-test method, Scheffe test was used with a significance level, p<.05.
Based on the above methods and data analysis, the following results were derived.
First, in terms of differences in satisfaction among the leisure sport participants by sex, it was revealed that there was no statistically significant difference in withdrawal symptoms, exercise desires, emotional desires and social adjustment.
Second, in terms of differences in exercise addiction levels among the subjects by their age, the study showed statistically significant differences in exercise desires, emotional desires, and social adjustment, except withdrawal symptoms.
Third, in terms of differences in the addiction among the subjects by their occupations, the study showed no statistically significant difference in exercise desires, emotional attachment, and social adjustment, while there was a statistically significant difference only in the withdrawal symptom factor.
Fourth, in terms of differences in exercise addiction levels among the leisure sport participants by their academic achievements, it was revealed that there was no statistically significant difference in exercise desires and emotional attachment, while there were statistically significant differences in withdrawal symptoms and social adjustment.
Fifth, in terms of differences in exercise addiction levels among the leisure sport participants by their income levels, it was found that there were statistically significant differences all in withdrawal symptoms, exercise desires, emotional desires, and social adjustment.
Sixth, in terms of differences in exercise addiction levels among the subjects by years of exercise, it was found that there were statistically significant differences all in withdrawal symptoms, exercise desires, emotional desires, and social adjustment.
Seventh, in terms of differences in exercise addiction levels among the subjects by the number of times of doing exercise, it was found that there were statistically significant differences all in withdrawal symptoms, exercise desires, emotional desires, and social adjustment.
Eighth, in terms of differences in exercise addiction levels among the subjects by hours of doing exercise, it was found that there were statistically significant differences all in withdrawal symptoms, exercise desires, emotional desires, and social adjustment.
Ninth, as a result of in-depth interviews with the females, it was revealed that they started play squash through recommendation from others and some accidental chances, and the more years of and number of times and hours of doing exercise, the more addiction to exercise showed obviously. In light of this, it is thought that when playing squash for enhancing and maintaining health, if they control exercise frequencies and hours, negative exercise-addiction would not happen irrespective of years of exercise.
Tenth, as a result of in-depth interviews with the males, it was revealed that they started playing squash due to recommendation from others and interest in it, and the more years of and number of times and hours of doing exercise, the more addiction to exercise showed obviously. In light of this, similarly with the case of the females it is thought that when playing squash for enhancing and maintaining health, if they control exercise frequencies and hours, negative exercise-addiction would not happen irrespective of years of exercise.
Putting these results together, in light of exercise addiction and social adjustment by degrees of participating in leisure sport, it was concluded that when doing exercise for enhancing and maintaining health, if the leisure sport participants control exercise frequencies and hours, negative exercise-addiction would not happen irrespective of years of exercise, and also they would adapt to society even more positively than people do not engage in exercise.