The Relationship of Senior Citizens’ Lifestyles, Leisure Resourcefulness and SatisfactionThe Relationship of Senior Citizens’ Lifestyles, Leisure Resourcefulness and SatisfactionThe Relationship of Senior Citizens’ Lifestyles, Leisure Resourcefulness

• Main Authors: Po-Hsun Tseng, 曾柏勳
• Other Authors: Jing-Shoung Hou
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65610816767775112574

碩士 === 東海大學 === 景觀學系 === 96 === According to the Ministry of the Interior, people aged above 65 years old, effect by the extended average lifespan, have reached to 2343 thousand, 10.2% of gross population, and by 2031, it will increase to 20.07% and have a tendency toward an aging society, estimated by Council for Economic Planning and Development. Issues on related welfare programs and designing of leisure spot for senior citizens have been scrutinized. Researches shows a reliefe on finacial burden by enhancing senior health life and increasing their euphoria. Most of the former studies on their leisure activities have focused on certain specific circumstances and life in rest-home, the feelings obtained from doing them are less concerned, so as the researches on their lifestyle, leisure resourcefulness and satisfaction. In order to understand the feelings they get while doing leisure activities, we took questionnaire in the parks of Taichung city to get the relation between the place they go and the potential needs for it and form a concept of leisure resources of citizens’ behaviour. The result of study is found：1. Senior citizens’ lifestyles can be divided into four groups, each named for：benefit-oriented type, self-reliance and pragmatic type, enjoyment of leisure type, leaders type.；2. Senior citizens’ four lifestyles groups with the socio-economic background of the age, level of education employment, personal expenses, place of residence there were significant differences.；3. There were two dimensions to the leisure resourcefulness：feeling of leisure, essential activity.；4. The results show that dimensions of the leisure resourcefulness varies across the types of lifestyles groups.；5. Furthermore, the lifestyles groups varies across the using park.；6. The lifestyles groups varies across the satisfaction.