사회인 야구리그 참가자의 참가동기와 생활만족이 삶의 질에 미치는 영향

Abstract

The objective of the study is to identify the impact of amateur baseball league participants’ participation motivation and life satisfaction on their quality of life. For this, male amateur baseball players aged over 20 in Gwangju Metropolitan City, Gyeonggi-do, Seoul Special City and 3 regions in Chungcheongnam-do were recruited as a population, a total of 287 subjects was finally analyzed with the convenience random sampling. The data analysis methods include frequency analysis, EFA(Exploratory Factor Analysis), reliability coefficient, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA and multiple regression analysis, and the results are as follows:

1) Differences of participation motivation according to sociodemographic characteristics of the amateur baseball league participants. First, participation motivation in relation to academic background of the amateur baseball league participants showed differences in social skills, while that based on occupation had significant differences in a sense of accomplishment, amotivation, technological development, condition and external display. Also, participation motivation according to average monthly income showed differences in technological development, social skills, external display and amotivation.

Second, participation motivation had differences in pleasure, external display and social skills according to participating time; pleasure, external display and amotivation in relation to the number of participation; and technological development and external display according to participating period.

2) Differences of life satisfaction according to sociodemographic characteristics of the amateur baseball league participants.

First, life satisfaction according to academic background had differences in the feeling of success, while that in relation to occupation showed differences in a feeling of happiness, expectations and contentment. Also, life satisfaction in accordance with average monthly income showed differences in expectations.

Second, according to participating time, life satisfaction showed differences in a feeling of happiness and the feeling of success. Moreover, participation motivation in line with the number of participation had differences in expectations, while life satisfaction according to participating period showed differences in contentment.

3) Differences of quality of life according to sociodemographic characteristics of the amateur baseball league participants.

First, according to age, amateur baseball players’ quality of life showed differences in psychological area and daily performance ability, and academic background was also the cause of differences in psychological area and life environmental area. Their quality of life showed differences in physical area, psychological area, life environmental area and daily performance in relation to occupation, and differences in psychological area, social area and daily performance ability according to average monthly income.

Second, quality of life in accordance with participating time had differences in life environmental area and daily performance ability, and that according to the number of participation showed difference in daily performance ability. Moreover, quality of life according to participating period had differences in psychological area and social area.

4) The impact of amateur baseball league players’ participation motivation on their life satisfaction.

When it comes to the impact of amateur baseball league players' participation motivation, sub-factors of participation motivation such as a sense of accomplishment and social skills had an influence on a feeling of happiness; sub-factors including social skills, amotivation, condition and external display had impact on the feeling of success; and sub-factors such as condition, amotivation and social skills had a significant influence on contentment. Moreover, amotivation and external display affected amateur baseball league participants’ expectations.

5) The impact of amateur baseball league players’ participation motivation on their quality of life.

First, as for the impact of amateur baseball league players' participation motivation, sub-factors of participation motivation such as condition, technological development and amotivation had an influence on physical area; sub-factors including condition and social skills affected psychological area; and amotivation and external display had influence on social area.

Second, sub-factors of amateur baseball league players’ participation motivation including external display, condition and amotivation had influence on life environmental area, and amotivation affected daily performance ability.

6) The impact of amateur baseball league players’ life satisfaction on their quality of life.

First, as for the impact of amateur baseball league participants’ life satisfaction on physical area, sub-factors of life satisfaction such as expectations and a feeling of happiness had influence, and the feeling of success had impact on psychological area. Additionally, sub-factors of life satisfaction such as expectations, contentment and the feeling of success had influence on social area.

Second, sub-factors of amateur baseball league participants’ life satisfaction such as a feeling of happiness and the feeling of success had influence on life environmental area, and expectations had impact on daily performance ability.