A Study on Elderly Physical Activity and Life Satisfaction in Pingtung City

• Main Authors: Kuan-Ming Chen, 陳冠名
• Other Authors: Chun-Feng Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08113703862973517953

碩士 === 國立屏東教育大學 === 體育學系 === 99 === The purpose of this study was to explore Pingtung City elderly physical activity and life satisfaction, the difference in population statistics variables using physical activity and life satisfaction. And this study tried to treat the correlation between physical activity and life satisfaction. The questionnaire investigation was adopted by physical activity and life satisfaction scale for the elderly. This research subjects were elderly who used some places like community, church, temple, school, and park. In all to send out 260 questionnaires by purposive sampling, and 192 effective questionnaires were collected. All collected data were processed with descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s product-moment correlation, and Scheffé, setting the significant level at α= .05. The results were summarized as follows: (1) There were significant differences between age, and state of health in elderly physical activity. There were no significant differences between sex, educational background, marital status, economic situation, and housings conditions. (2) There were significant differences between sex, marital status, state of health, and economic situation in elderly life satisfaction. There were no significant differences between age, educational background, and housings conditions. (3) There were significant correlation between physical activity and life satisfaction.