Research on the Relevance between Exercise and Happiness--An Empirical Analysis with the Taiwan Youth Project Dataset

• Main Authors: CHANG, LAN-FANG, 張籃方
• Other Authors: TSWEI, KE-SHIN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9btgwq

碩士 === 南華大學 === 文化創意事業管理學系休閒產業碩士班 === 105 === 　　This study aims to explore the relevance between exercise and happiness, and that between life satisfaction, gender, health, family income and happiness. Life satisfaction here includes job satisfaction, school life satisfaction, self satisfation, and family relationship satisfaction. The data comes from a project called “Taiwan Youth Project ” in 2009. The questionnaires are filled out by students from age 21 to 23. A summary of the findings is shown below: 1. Exercise positively affects happiness. While adding other factors that affect happiness, health is significantly correlated with happiness, but exercise isn’t. It’s because long-term exercise leads to a healthy and sound body; therefore, health definitely reflects the influence of long-term exercise participation. When merely using students as the samples, I find out that both health and exercise positively affect happiness. That is to say, both long-term and short-term exercise affect happiness. 2. Life satisfication positively affects happiness. Self satisfication, job satisfation, school life satisfaction, and family relationship satisfication are all significantly correlated with happiness. Among the four aspects of self satisfaction, appearance and personality satisfaction affect a person the most. And the relationship with “all” the family members are more important. 3. Family income doesn’t positively affect happiness. People in Taiwan have reached a certain level of economic standard and thus compared it to other factors, family income isn’t that important. The study also shows that gender doesn’t have a positve influence on happiness. That is, both gender and family income can’t predict happiness. 　　The conclusion provides specific and workable suggestions for the educators, parents, students and the follow-up studies.