The purpose of this study is to examine the causal relationships among activity types, activity satisfaction, activity constraints, and university life satisfactions through circle activity which is the representative activity of university students. ...
The purpose of this study is to examine the causal relationships among activity types, activity satisfaction, activity constraints, and university life satisfactions through circle activity which is the representative activity of university students. The subjects were undergraduates who registered for the second semester of 2002 from 9 universities which are located in Jeju province, Seoul City, Kwangju City, N Gyongsang, S Gyongsang, and N. Jeolla. Multistage cluster sampling method was used, and respondents were all 900 students among which 809 were for actual analysis. Without a standardized measuring instrument to analyse the causes of activity satisfactions, activity constraints, and university life satisfactions systematically, an valid measure were pursued to verify and classify the causes of circle activity and university life satisfactions in the concrete. The validation of the collected data were verified through the factors analysis, and satisfactory reliability coefficients were gained. For the analysis of the collected data, the multivariate analysis of variance, univariate ANOVA, Duncan multiple range test, multiple regression analysis, and path analysis were applied to the analysis of the collected data. By these methods of study and process, the results through the data analysis were as follows. First, there were significant differences among circle activity satisfactions, activity constraints, and university life satisfactions according to the participation intention. Second, there were significant differences among activity satisfactions, activity constraints, and university life satisfactions according to circle activity types, and the activity satisfactions in health and sport activity was much higher than any other factors. Third, there were a causal relationships among circle activity types, activity satisfactions, activity constraints, ad university life satisfactions. By the results above, it is concluded that the circle activity satisfactions of university students is the factor which has a direct effect on university life satisfactions, and it serves as a intervening variable between circle activity types and activity constraints, playing an important role in increasing the university life satisfactions.