게이트볼 참여 노인의 여가몰입과 심리적 행복감 및 생활만족의 관계

Abstract

This study has examined the relationship between leisure flow and mental happiness or life satisfaction aimed at senior participants in gate ball so that it can explain psycho-social influences of daily sports activities of increasing senior citizens and provide the basic data to activate daily sports activities as useful leisure activities for spending their declining years in peace. For this study, the general population has been aimed at the elderly who are older than 60 years old and have participated in gate ball clubs, living in Daejoen Metropolitan City and South Chungchong Province in 2013 and 400 subjects haev been chosen from it by using purposiv e sampling method. SPSS 17.0 program has been utilized for data analysis of ultimate 375 subjects appropriate for the research purpose to examine the relationship between liesure flow and mental happiness or life sa-t isfaction and the results are as follows. First, there is a positive relationship between leisure flow and psychological happiness and life satisfaction of senior participants in gate ball. Second, when it comes to the relationship between leisure flow and psychological happiness of senior participants in gate ball, leisure flow(cognitive flow, behavioral flow) has significant effects on flow and happiness as sub-factors of psychological happiness. Third, regarding the relationship between leisure flow and lif esatisfaction of senior participants in gate bal l,leisure flow(cognitive flow, behavioral flow) has significant nifluence on past satisfaction, present satisfaction ,future satisfaction as sub-factors of life satisfaction.