The Relationships of Life Stress, Leisure Coping Strategies, and Health of Rural Tourist

碩士 === 亞洲大學 === 休閒與遊憩管理學系碩士班 === 96 === Along with the progress in technique and social economy, people's living pressure increases dramatically, their physical and moral fines being under great threat. According to previous studies the leisure may generate positive effects on mental state and...

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Main Authors: Tan Chia-Lun, 譚家倫
Other Authors: 湯幸芬
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77248630979335137973
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Summary:碩士 === 亞洲大學 === 休閒與遊憩管理學系碩士班 === 96 === Along with the progress in technique and social economy, people's living pressure increases dramatically, their physical and moral fines being under great threat. According to previous studies the leisure may generate positive effects on mental state and health. Based on the surveys about the relationship between life stress, leisure coping and health. The objective of this investigation and analysis is focusing on society sustainability and natural environment cares. The targeted group is the rural tourist aged over 16 and travelling in Miaoli County Nanzhuang area. By convenience sampling method, 500 copies of questionnaires were sent out and 483 of them were collected. Statistic techniques, including descriptive statistics, confirmation factor analysis(CFA) and structural equation modeling(SEM), are used in the dissertation. The findings demonstrate that the main leisure coping strategy for rural tourists is “leisure mood enhancement”, and followed by ” leisure palliative coping”. The best health strategy for rural tourists is ”social functioning”, and followed by” general health”. Life stress is negatively correlated to tourists’ health. There are positive relationships between “ leisure mood enhancement”, ”leisure companionship” and “health”. This demonstrates that living stress brings the bad influence regarding the participant physical and moral integrity, and the mood leisure activity is possible to improve participants' health. Living stress has major impacts on tourists’ health, while the leisure coping strategy is effectively in relaxing negative effects of stress on health. Using “Leisure companionship” and”leisure mood enhancement” for the adjustment of living stress consciousness has the best positive effect on “the general health”. This indicates that leisure indeed has effects on the living stress adjustment strategy, and can promote physical health and holistic moral integrity and support toward leisure from society is an important factor to adapt living pressure. In conclusion, living stresses did affect tourists’ health a lots and the leisure coping strategy is a proved way to absorb and decrease the impacts of living stresses on peoples’ health. When develop and plan the rural tourism activity in the future. By Using leisure companionship and leisure palliative coping primarily will help the rural traveling tourists to release living pressures.