A Study on the Relationships among Seniors’ Leisure Activity Types, Leisure Involvement, Leisure Benefits and Successful Aging

碩士 === 大葉大學 === 休閒事業管理學系碩士在職專班 === 103 === The aim of this study is to discuss the relationships among the types of leisure activity, leisure involvement and leisure benefits to seniors' successful aging. The purposes of the research are as follows. Survey the types of leisure activity who in p...

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Main Authors: Hui-Hsin Chiang, 江慧欣
Other Authors: Chih-Jiun Lin
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2014
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98781961703366728851
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Summary:碩士 === 大葉大學 === 休閒事業管理學系碩士在職專班 === 103 === The aim of this study is to discuss the relationships among the types of leisure activity, leisure involvement and leisure benefits to seniors' successful aging. The purposes of the research are as follows. Survey the types of leisure activity who in participating senior schools. Analyze the differences of different demographic variables in the types of leisure activity, leisure involvement, leisure benefits and successful aging. Simultaneously, induct the relationships among different types of leisure activity, leisure involvement, leisure benefits and successful aging. First, the study reviews the related literature. The objects of the research are the people who take courses in senior schools of Taoyuan City. Then, using simple random sampling and stratified random sampling, distributed 480 questionnaires were obtained 415 valid samples. The statistic software SPSS 14.0 was applied for data analyses. The statistical methods included descriptive statistics, Chi-square test, independent samples t test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s product-moment correlation, and stepwise multiple regression. The major findings of this study were summarized as follows. The seniors participate in senior schools can approach to successful aging. The senior who has junior college or college degree, surviving spouse, sufficiency economy, and good health condition is easier to achieve successful aging. The female who is 60 to 64 years old and in good health has better condition in leisure psychological involvement. There is no difference between leisure behavior involvement and successful aging. The person who has graduate degree or above shows less leisure benefits than others. Fitness types of leisure activities are easy to achieve leisure benefits and successful aging. Leisure psychological involvement and leisure benefits can effectively predict the overall successful aging. Among of them, the social dimension of leisure benefits has the best prediction. Finally, hopping the results of this study can provide as references of the government department which planning the elderly leisure activities as well as the seniors themselves in the future.