| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立體育大學 === 休閒產業經營學系碩士班 === 99 === The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship among gay’s stress of social expectations, leisure coping strategies and the quality of life. Hopefully, the results of this study may provide to gay, those who are interested in gay’s leisure market, and the future researchers. The research method was quantatative in oriented and the subject of the study was Taiwan’s gay. The researcher conducted a valid and reliable on-line questionnaire by snowball sampling technique. There were 142 questionnaires collected, and the valid questionnaires were 135. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Pearson’s moment-product correlation, and regression analysis. The results of the study were as following:
1. The respondents were mainly live in the north of Taiwan (57%), and more than half between 17 and 25 years old. Most were at collegiate level when it came to educational level, 48.1% were students, and 61.1% whose salary below NT$19,000. Also, 59.3% had no date, 89.6% identified themselves as homosexual, and 67.4% partially out-of-closet.
2. As to the respondents’ leisure participation, the most frequent category of leisure activities was that of ‘mass media’, the least frequent that of ‘outside activities.’
3. The stress of social expectations of the respondents was average; among them, ‘come-out’ stress was the highest and ‘sex-role’ stress the lowest.
4. The leisure coping strategies of the respondents was above average; among them, ‘leisure mood enhancement’ was the highest and the ‘leisure companionship’ the lowest.
5. The quality of life of the respondents was just a bit above average; among them, ‘physical health’ was the highest and ‘environment’ the lowest.
6. Stress of social expectations partially is positively correlated with leisure coping strategies; leisure coping strategies is positively correlated with quality of life; and stress of social expectations is negatively correlated with quality of life.
7. Gay’s stress of social expectations and leisure coping strategies can predict quality of life, and the explanation power was up to 10%.
Conclusion was drawn from the results and suggestions are pointed out for gay people, the service providers interested in gay market, educators and the following researchers concerned.
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