대학생의 생활스포츠 참여와 대학생활 적응에 관한 연구

Abstract

This study examines the relationship between undergraduates' participation in life sports and their adaptation to campus life and focuses on examining the difference in their adaptation to campus life depending on sex, period and frequency of participation in life sports and their health on the assumption that their satisfaction with life by their participation in life sports have an affirmative influence on social life as well as campus life. Therefore, this study sets the hypothetical model based on preceding researches related to their participation in life sports and their adaptation to campus life and examines causation between them. For this, it selected male and female undergraduates who participate in life sport more than once a week as of 2004 and used simple random sampling. Interviewees were total 258 (142 men and 116 women). Mean and standard deviation of the data collected through questionnaire were obtained with statistical techniques such as t-test and one-way ANOVA and significant results were analyzed with Duncan method as potst-test. The following conclusions were obtained through these research methods and procedures. First, adaptation of participants in life sports to campus life was higher in male undergraduates than in female undergraduates according to sex. Second, there was a significant difference in their adaptation to campus life according to frequency of participation in life sports. Third, there was a significant difference in their adaptation to campus life according to period of participation in life sports. Fourth, there was a significant difference in their adaptation to campus life according to intensity of participation in life sports. Their adaptation to campus life doesn't focus on developing their intellectual functions or acquiring techniques, but aims to make personality of assimilating and adapting themselves to society. That is, campus life must focus on achieving harmony between individual personality and environment and cultivating personality adaptable to society with socially dynamic abilities, attitudes and views ultimately for themselves and further society. Therefore, researches on the influence of undergraduates' participation in life sports on their adaptation to campus life are needed. Results of this study showed meaningful relationship between undergraduates' participation in life sports and their adaptation to campus life. However, peripheral conditions which undergraduates can take part in life or school sports activities are relatively lacking and poor. For overcoming these problems, the following policies can be suggested. First, for inducing undergraduates to participate in life sports, attempts to invite them to participate in life sports should be made through expansion and improvement of life sports facilities. And to extend their participation in life sports, components of life sports including life sports facilities, programs and coaches should be extended and improved quantitatively. Motivation of undergraduates to take part in life sports should be encouraged and its improvements are urgently required.