국가대표 장애인 선수들의 진지한여가, 생활만족, 행복감의 관계

Engagement in leisure activities is one of the core variables in regard to increasing overall well-being and happiness for the handicapped. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationships among serious leisure, life satisfaction, and happiness for the handicapped athletes. By using convenience sampling method, Korea national handicapped athletic representatives were drawn from the Korean sport training center organized by Korea Paralympic Committee. The serious leisure construct was first subjected to exploratory principal components analysis with varimax rotation. Four subcomponents of serious leisure had eigenvalues greater than 1.00 and accounted for 69.3% of the extracted variance. Regression analyses were performed to identify the relationships among study variables. Results indicated that the four serious leisure subdimensions predicted 30% of the variation of the life satisfaction. It was found that the four serious leisure subdimensions predicted 35% of the variation of the happiness. Life satisfaction was also found to be the statistically significant predictor of life happiness. The findings in this study provided further evidence that positive experiences of serious leisure not only help the handicapped cope with various stresses, but also facilitate growth-related changes.