P4‐652: Leisure Performance and Leisure Satisfaction by Preference Leisure Performance in the Elderly: Comparison Between Young‐old and Old‐old
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Leisure participation plays an important role in improving quality of life, self-realization and self-development, and the pursuit of health and happiness. Elderly person experiences loss of roles. It is important to solve the psychological problems such as lethargic and loneliness from loss of roles. According to Active Theory, elderly people can make a successful aging by participating in social activities or roles and actively work. Previous studies don't distinguish between young-old and old-old. Therefore, this study will analyze leisure satisfaction and leisure performance according to whether elderly people are performing their preferred leisure activities by distinguishing the young-old from the old-old. For the analysis, we used sample from the 6th (2015) panal data as Korean Retirement and Income Study (-KReIS). The results of this study were as follows. First, the total data of 4,197 elderly (2,212 young-old and 1,985 old-old) were analyzed. As a result, weekday and weekend leisure time of the old-old (7.64 hours / 7.81 hours) than the young-old (6.83 hour / 7.39 hour) was increased and resting activites (over 70% of watching TV and listening to the radio) accounted for more than 80% of the both elderly leisure activities. Leisure performance were higher in old-old who did not perform preferred leisure activities during weekdays. Leisure performance on weekends was higher in old-old regardless of whether they had preferred leisure time. Average of leisure performance was high in both groups and they responded leisure satisfaction was moderate. In the case of need for leisure change, young-old was higher than oid-old regardless of preference leisure performance and day of the week. However, the responses of the both groups are closed to those that do not want to change.
Source: Alzheimer s & Dementia
Authors: Ye-Shin Woo, Ga-In Shin, Da-sol Park, Hae Yean Park
Institutions: Yonsei University, Yonsei University Mirae Campus
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2981024583