The Influence on the Adaptation and Quality of Lives of the Aged Women by Their Types of Leisure Activity

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The object of this research is to examine the influence on the adaptation and quality of lives of the aged women by their types of leisure activity. Specifically, the object of this research will be achieved by building a model mainly about the demographic and sociological character, types of leisure activities, and the factor that changes the adaptation and the quality of lives of the subjects, the aged women.
The subjects of this research are the aged women who currently live in 4 cities(Chun-cheon, Won-ju, Gang-neung, and Sok-cho) in Kang-won Do and have steady jobs and have been selected as a population. Samples of 350 persons have been extracted by "stratified cluster random sampling".
To survey the types of leisure activities, the questionnaire of this research consists of a question for each one of following 5 types of activities - physical activities(sports game, dancing, etc.), social activities(picnic, party, clubbing, etc.), cultural activities(art, music, play, folk games, etc.), natural activities(fishing, hunting, camping, hiking, etc.), mental activities(reading, creation, chess, etc.), which were classified by Lutzin & Story(1973).
The questionnaire also consists of other 12 questions with 3 subordinate categories based on Kim(2001) version of SASS(Social Adaptation Self-Scale) which was developed by Bosc(1997) to measure the adaptation with lives.
The data collected by the survey procedure has been encoded by the coding guide and been inputted into a computer. A statistics program, SPSS ver 14.0 for Windows was used to make a descriptive statistical analysis, a mean comparison, and an ANCOVA on the inputted data.
Following conclusions have been drawn from the methods and results of the research above.
First, types of leisure activities and the factors for adaptation to lives seems to have some relation with each other.
Second, types of leisure activities and the factors for quality of lives seem to have some relation with each other.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Abstract
• Ⅰ．Introduction
• Ⅱ. Methods
• Ⅲ. Results
• Ⅳ. Discussion
• References

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