| Summary: | 碩士 === 大仁科技大學 === 休閒健康管理研究所 === 96 === Health was the most important asset human beings could have for the life. Residents of a healthy city were entitled to be health, yet were also responsible for their own healthcare. While the protection provided by the national insurance system is becoming harder and more expensive, preventive medicine would be critical in keeping the system in good shape. This research presumes that citizens’ self health conscious may have significant impacts on the levels of their participating leisure and sports activities, both of which in turn affect the degree of health related quality of life.
Main purpose of the study is to explore the relationships among Self-health Conscious, Leisure Sports Participation, and Health-Related Quality of Life. To reveal the linkages among these important constructs, several hypotheses are estanlsihed based on literature review and the author’s observation. This study uses self-administered questionnaire with 5-point Likert-scale that were developed in previous literature as measurement tool. Purposively dispatched and collected responses in several contexts where respondents perform their leisure and sport activities, including sports clubs, community gatherings, and municipal parks respectively. This study received 255 valid responses, 74 % of entire enquiry for further analyses. Analyses are conducted with a statistical package of SPSS for Window 12.0 Chinese version, includeing descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, cross-tab analysis, and regression. The study then reaches several concluding findings. 1. Degree of Self-health Conscious positively correlates with the extent of Leisure Sports Particpating. 2. Self-health Conscious can significantly predict the level of Health-Related Quality of Life. 3. Leisure Sports Particpating positively coorelates with the level of respondent’s perception on Health-Related Quality of Life. 4. Self-health Conscious can significantly affect reposndents’ perception on Health-Related Quality of Life through active Leisure Sports Participating. Several managerial implications are provided base on research finding.
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