A Study into the Cognition about Leisure-activities and Obstaclesof Participation among the Elderly-The case of the Eastern region

• Main Authors: Kuan Hsuao-Yun, 管小雲
• Other Authors: Su-fang Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/zycbvu

碩士 === 大仁科技大學 === 休閒健康管理研究所 === 101 === In consideration of growing senior number worldwide, how to increase their life quality, to plan healthy life style for them has already become an important national issue. Given the important influence of leisure participation in terms of enhancing seniors’ physical and mental health, the study tries to discuss elders’ physical health from their leisure participation life and focuses on discussing factors influencing their leisure activities, understanding their activity types and scopes, and finding out the important impact of leisure participation on seniors’ physical health and the factors constraining them from participating leisure activities. This study selected questionnaire to collect data from senior citizens older than 65 years and living in Hualien and Taitung areas as our samples. The valid questionnaire reached 495 copies, with 82.5% efficiency. After questionnaires were retrieved, the researcher used a quantitative statistical software, spss12.0, to do related statistical analysis; level of significance α is set at .05. Further data analysis combines descriptive statistics, factor analysis, t-test (T-Test), Pearson correlation analysis, ANOVA (one way ANOVA) analysis, multiple regression analysis these statistical methods. III Study results suggest leisure participation and knowledge of senior citizen over 65 living in Hualien and Taitung areas are influenced by their age, marriage status, educational background, living expenses, financial sources, chronic diseases, weekly leisure participation times and leisure participation status; seniors’ gender, vacation, weekly leisure participation times, leisure participation status and leisure participation constraints reveal significance; as for correlation analysis, leisure activity knowledge and leisure participation constraints have significant positive correlation; that is to say, seniors’ knowledge to leisure activities is deeply related with their participation constraints. The study expects to work as useful reference and healthy material for related follow-up studies and the public.