• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.11
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• pp.471-478
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• 2013

This study has been conducted on soldiers' leisure activities and their military life satisfaction using path analysis. The survey for the research had been done with military personnel serving at two units, located in north Gyeonggi province and south Gyeonggi province, using 856 questionaires for eight weeks beginning september, 2011. The results showed that military life contentment was found to be influenced significantly by the factors such as physical symtoms, depression, and social support. with this results, the hope is that they could enhance military life satisfaction by developing and introducing various leisure programs which could help relieve depression, physical symtoms, and build social support among soldiers.