余暇活動としてのスポーツ実施の社会的機能とその規定要因 : 韓国T社従業員の場合

We are living in the rise in the number of senior citizens. The Republic of Korea is no exception either. Progressive aging of society is one of the cardinal features in today\u27s social changes. The main object of this study was as following. a) Find out and illustrate the state of how worker\u27s carry on sports in the Republic of Korea. b) From the view of attitude to work, leisure, life and social life, analize that how sports participation influence worker\u27s consciousness and attitudes. The above a) and b) leads the following hypothesis ; there exist different attitudes to work between sports participation group and non-sports participation group. The former group not only regards work as positive one, but also possesses active how to think and behave for their daily life. c) Find out and explain the determining factors of sports participation. d) Starting from the view that sports are took as leisure activity in worker\u27s leisure time and their leisure activities in the Republic of Korea. For these purposes, the survey was carried out according to the distributed survey method. This survey was carried out between March 15 and April 10, 1988. Here, 65 items related with the day-to-day life of the workers and the sports activities they carried out were investigated. Some results of this study were as following. (1) The results shows that there are difference to the understanding of worker\u27s way of think and behave between the sports participation group and non-sports participation group. The former group assures the work and its corresponding active attitude. The results produce a basis to the workers who give sports a firmative meaning, and make sports as part of day-to-day life. (2) Using this point as a basis, the author gave an analysis to the key factors of sports participation, and the results shows that facing society and putting oneself in a position which connects with society is a factor of connecting with sports participation. This fact shows that even though there are perfect sports equipment, worker\u27s way of think controls the progress of sports as socialization into sport. As for workers in company who are facing aging whether he is a worker or as a member in society, giving hope to sports is very meaningful. This is so significant whether to society or company, or the individual