[[alternative]]Impact of Serious Leisure Participation by Teenagers on Their Happiness in College Years--An Empirical Analysis with the Taiwan Youth Project Dataset

[[abstract]] 本研究使用「臺灣青少年成長歷程研究」2000年國一樣本長期追蹤至大學時期問卷資料，旨在探討青少年認真休閒參與對隨後個人長期快樂感影響，以不同青少年階段的五類休閒參與狀況對大一快樂感影響進行迴歸實證分析。本研究結果發現：（一）研究模型中最明確的結果是「自認有某項天賦」對大學時期快樂感沒有顯著影響，而八個迴歸模型中較為普遍的發現是參與「音樂」和「運動舞蹈」比賽對大學時期快樂感有正向影響，「美術書法」比賽參與和大學時期快樂感有反向關係。（二）加入個人健康與快樂狀況做為控制變數後，「運動舞蹈」比賽對大學時期快樂感變成不具影響，然而參與「音樂」和「美術書法」比賽對大學快樂感仍分別維持顯著之正負向影響。（三）「國三階段」認真休閒參與對大學時期快樂感影響最具有正確的預測和指標能力。（四）少數模型曾出現參與「運動舞蹈」比賽對快樂感有正向影響結果，可能因該模型中個人健康快樂狀況控制變數被遺漏之故，亦即「運動舞蹈」的影響可能反映或代理了個人長期身心狀況對快樂感的影響。 最後，歸納結論進行討論，提出具體可行的建議，供教育工作者、父母及未來研究之參考。[[abstract]] This study aims to explore the effects of serious leisure participation by teenagers on their happiness in college years. The regression analysis is used to estimate the relationship between participation in five different leisure activities of teenagers and their happiness in college year. The data come from questionnaires filled out by seventh-grade students from the Taiwan Youth Project since 2000. The results show that,1. Having a talent in some fields has no significant effect on their happiness in college years. Participation in music or sports competitions has positive correlation with their happiness in college years. On the contrary, there is negative correlation between participation in art competitions and the happiness.2. After adding personal health and happiness conditions as the control variables, participation in sports contests becomes uncorrelated with their college-year happiness. However, participation in music contests remains positively and art competitions negatively correlated with the happiness.3. Serious leisure participation in ninth-grade could predict their happiness in college years.4. There is a positive influence on the happiness from sports competition possibly because variables of personal health and happiness conditions are omitted in those equations. The conclusion provides specific and workable suggestions for the educators, parents and the follow-up studies