The relationship between leisure and successful aging for elderly

• Main Authors: Chun-Chi Lu, 盧俊吉
• Other Authors: Kun-Sun Shiao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/t2y98c

博士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 生物產業傳播暨發展學研究所 === 97 === Since Taiwan has officially become an“aging societies”. Aging societies had brought lots of problems and issues in elderly people. The purpose of this study was to investigated the relationship between leisure and successful aging for elderly. Stratified random sampling was used to collect data from 2864 elders. We used one-way ANOVA , Pearson’s product-moment correlation, hierarchical regression and path analysis to analyze the hypotheses and attain the purposes of this study. Our results indicate that controlling population variables, institutional activities of daily living (IADLs) is a strong and positive predictor of leisure activity, social support, mental health and life satisfaction. The recreational leisure activity is a strong and positive predictor of received emotional social support, mental health and life satisfaction. The physical leisure activity is a strong and positive predictor of mental health and life satisfaction. In path analysis result shows institutional activities of daily living can affect mental health. Mental health is the main predict factor in life satisfaction. Successful aging and its affect factors have a multiple and complex analysis relationsons. When older adults have a good physical function but face mental stress in retired and lose roles, it should be participated in leisure activities and offered affective support to enhance successful aging. The suggestion of this study was that the government, society, family members should provide older adults more on the leisure activities, mental and social supports.