• Journal of Sport and Applied Science
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 2019

Purpose: With an increase of concerns towards leisure activities, water sport participation is constantly increasing. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of exercise commitment on leisure satisfaction. Research design, data, and methodology: To accomplish the purpose, the study collected data from undergraduate students who participated water sports class in University. The sample was extracted by purposive sampling of nonprobability sampling. 281 students participated in the survey. Data were computed via correlation test, factor analysis, Cronbach's α test, one way ANOVA, and regression. Significance of all results was set to p<.05. Results: The results are like below. Frist, in terms of differences by demographics, the results indicated that significant difference between exercise commitment and leisure satisfaction by gender was shown only in psychological factor in leisure satisfaction. Second, in terms of the relationship between commitment and satisfaction, the findings pointed out that significant difference between exercise commitment and leisure satisfaction by grade was observed only in leisure satisfaction, especially on the educational part. Third, the study revealed that no significant difference by participation level was shown. Conclusions: In conclusion, the study posits that exercise commitment play a function in increasing the leisure satisfaction. Further implications were discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.376-387
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to identify characteristics of leisure activity participants and to investigate the correlation between leisure satisfaction and life satisfaction according to the type of leisure activities. This study provide the theoretical and strategic insight to the marketers and policy makers for developing sound leisure activities.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.15-22
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• 1985

This study was designed to examine leisure time and leisure activities of homemakers and to predict future leisure time and future leisure time orientation. Present leisure time and future leisure time orientation were studied in relation to sociodemographic and physical environmental variables, time use variables and attitude variables. The major findings were the average daily housework time of homemakers was 6.5 hours on weekends. Housework time of employed homemakers was 3.5 hours and full-time homemakers was 8.0 hours. Daily leisure time of homemakers was 4.0 hours on weekdays and 4.8 hours o weekends. Most homemakers leisure activities on weekdays and weekends were reading, watching TV or listening to the radio and resting. In the future, they want to go hiking, hunting, traveling or fishing, attending concerts, drama or movies and playing sports games. The homemakers who felt their amount of present leisure time was sufficient were 35.4% and insufficient were 37.9%. Regarding the present leisure activities, 43.1% of homemakers expressed dissatisfaction, though 21.9% of them satisfied. Factors affecting the homemakers weekday leisure time were homemakers' occupation, family type, type of heating form house and cooking, weekday and weekend housework time of homemakers. Weekend leisure time interacted with family life cycle, number of children, income, education and occupation of homemakers, size of house, type of heating for house and cooking, weekday housework time of homemakers. housework time of employed housekeeper, husbands' weekend housework time, weekday leisure time of homemakers.

• 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.

• The Journal of Korean society of community based occupational therapy
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.53-61
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• 2020

Objective : The purpose of this study was to find out the stress of vascular conditions and leisure activities for the elderly and the effect of stress problems on the vascular conditions of the elderly. Methods : The study surveyed 172 elderly people, conducted a validity and reliability analysis to organize items of leisure activities, analyzed vascular conditions and stress for leisure activities, and conducted a regression analysis to analyze stress factors affecting the blood vessel conditions of the elderly. Results : First, there was a significant difference in comparing the average value of vascular conditions for leisure activities in the elderly (p=.012) and sports activity was the most stable in vascular conditions. Second, there was a significant difference in comparing the average value of stress for leisure activities of the elderly (p=.035) and rest and other activities were higher than other activities. Third, the effect of stress problems in older people on vascular conditions has been shown to be influenced by financial difficulties and health problems. Conclusion : Leisure activities in older people can act as a factor in changing the quality of life. Older adults can expect improvement of vascular conditions and reduction of stress through leisure activities, especially sports activities have a high relationship of vascular conditions, and rest and other activities have a high relationship with stress. As a result, this study confirmed the importance of selecting and continuing participation in leisure activities for the elderly.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.81-95
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to examine gender equity in the quantity and flow experience of leisure time of urban dual-earner couples having preschool children. The quantity of leisure time is measured by primary activity and the flow experience of leisure time is measured by primary and secondary activities. The data collected by Korean National Statistical Office in 2004 is used. The sample for this study consists of 255 couples, and the statistical methods are frequency, percentage, paired t-test, and one-way ANOVA. The following is a summary of the major findings. The first, the pattern of the leisure time was different between husbands and wives. The quantity of leisure time of husbands was longer than that of wives. The husbands spent more time to perform social activities, media contact, sports and outdoor activities, while women did more in religious activities. The second, husband's leisure flow experience was higher than that of wives. The pure leisure time of wives was shorter than that of husbands and wives experienced more contaminated leisure time by a secondary activity. In other words, wives's leisure is more likely to be interrupted, to involve episodes of shorter duration, and to be associated with personal care and unpaid work.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.488-497
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• 2013

The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between the degree of participation and flow for participants in ground, water, and air leisure sports-based tourism activities. A total of 437 participants' data was employed for the analyses (one-way ANOVA and multiple regression analysis) using SPSS Win 18.0 program. Main findings are as follows; First, there were differences in clear goals, transformation of time, loss of self-consciousness, challenge-skill balance, autotelic experience, unambiguous feedback, and sense of control out of flow dimensions based on types of leisure sports-based tourism activities. Second, participation period and frequence had positive effects on flow. Specifically, period had an influence on challenge-skill balance. clear goals: frequence had an effect on challenge-skill balance, transformation of time, clear goals, autotelic experience, unambiguous feedback, and sense of control: intensity had an influence on transformation of time and autotelic experience.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.61-72
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• 2019

This study has meanings by adapting recreation specialized theory, focusing on outdoor recreation activities, on indoor recreation, e-sports. LoL is leading the e-sports fever now, and this study is targeting its spectators, reflecting and analyzing recent e-sports consumers' leisure feature statistically. For the further research, adapting a theory to various fields to generalize is required. Also, the researches on e-sports leisure need both quantitative and qualitative methods.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.788-802
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• 2016

Sportswear transforms itself into a new fashion item to satisfy desires for beauty in addition to having functionality and movability for sports activities. Sportswear is not in fashion just temporarily but comes in various forms along with sociocultural phenomenon that put emphasis on well-being and leisure. This research aims to study the needs of the bikers who ride bicycles or cycles has become a popular outdoor activity, and give suggestions for high functional sports design that can satisfy the needs of the highly demanding taste of athletes. To understand the design development direction and design preference, practical consumer needs were derived through a survey analysis on bike wear purchasing satisfaction and actual wearing state by bike riders. For consumer needs analysis, focus group interview, in-depth interview and questionnaire method were used. Based on analysis of those researches, athleisure bike wears appropriate for urban sports activities were categorized into sports, life, fitness and leisure 4 styles for athleisure bike wear design development. It is believed that this study will contribute to in the category expansion of sports wear market and satisfy the consumer demands for functional and specialized casual bike wears as well as fashion factors optimized to life style of modern people.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.295-300
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• 2008

This study identifies the effect of community sports activities of senior on leisurely satisfaction to present basic information for active participation of senior in daily sports activities for enhanced satisfaction of senior and heir families. As a result, this study found that there is a significant difference between senior who participated in the activities and those who did not, and participation in daily sports activities has partial effect on leisurely satisfaction. Based on the conclusion above, this study suggests that degree of participation as well as participation in daily sports activities enhances leisure satisfaction of senior and their families. Therefore, to enhance the living quality of senior people, we need a discussion on development of a model based on effective daily sports activation plan.