Relationship between Leisure Boredom and Quality of Life: A Case Study of Undergraduates

Abstract—The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between leisure boredom and quality of life for undergraduates in Taiwan. The researchers adopted the survey method. The scales of “leisure boredom (LB) ” and “quality of life (QOL) ” were used. A total of 403 undergraduate students from a university in southern Taiwan participated in the study. Descriptive statistics and Pearson’s product-moment correlation in SPSS 14.0 for Windows were employed to examine the collected data. According to the results, negative relationships were observed among leisure boredom and four dimensions of quality of life. Four dimensions of quality of life were revealed to be significantly related to leisure boredom, with the physical (r =-.39), psychological (r =-.48), social (r =-.52) and environmental (r =-.33) aspects being negatively related (p<0.01). Finally, suggestions for future researchers are provided to make further contributions to the field. Keywords- Leisure boredom, Quality of life, Undergraduates