[[alternative]]Assessing the Impact of Teenagers' Serious Leisure on their Future Physical Health

[[abstract]] 本研究旨在探討青少年認真休閒參與對日後個人長期身體健康之影響，是以青少年時期不同階段的五類休閒參與狀況，並對於長期參加上述五類休閒活動後，再以大學一年級階段身體健康的影響程度進行迴歸實證分析。而本研究資料是運用「臺灣青少年成長歷程研究」第1階段國一時期的樣本長期追蹤至大學時期的相關調查資料，本研究結果顯示：（一）在研究六種迴歸模型中，較為普遍的發現是參與「運動舞蹈」和「音樂」比賽對大學時期(長期)身體健康有正向影響，而少數模型中「演講作文」及「美術書法」這類的靜態比賽參與和大學時期(長期)身體健康卻有反向關係。（二）在加入個人身體健康及快樂情形以做為控制變數後，參與「運動舞蹈」和「音樂」等比賽對於大學時期(長期)身體健康仍是維持顯著正向影響。（三）「國小高(5、6)年級」認真休閒參與對大學時期身體健康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「美術書法」及「作文演講」比賽對健康狀況有反向影響結果，可能因該模型中個人健康狀況控制變數被遺漏（omitted variable）之故，亦即「美術書法」及「作文演講」比賽的影響可能反映或代理 (proxy)了個人長期身心狀況對未來身體健康的影響。 最後，本研究除了對分析結果予以解釋說明外，亦對研究結果的加以分析討論，並對後續研究提出一些具體可行的建議，供教育工作者、父母及未來研究之參考。[[abstract]] This study investigates the long-term impact on the health of the college students of their serious leisure participation in adolescent years. Using regressions, we examine five different types of leisure participation in three adolescent stages to see their differential long-term health effects. The data comes from the Taiwan Youth Project database. The results of this study are:1. The regression models found that participating in “Sports-Dance” and “Music” tournaments has a positive impact on their long-term health in college, but in some models “writing-Speech” and “Art-Calligraphy” showed a negative impact on the health.2. After adding personal health and happiness conditions as control variables in the regressions, “Sports-Dance” and “Music” continued to display significantly positive effects on the long-term health.3. Serious leisure participation during the fifth and sixth grade in the primary school has the highest predicting and explanatory power for the future he4. In the models where “Art-Calligraphy” and “Writing-Speech” show negative future health effects, they may be the results of omitting personal health and happiness control variables in the models. This may have caused “Art-Calligraphy” and “Writing-Speech” participation to function as the proxy for the omitted variables. Finally, in addition to the above analysis, the study also puts forward some practical recommendations for educators and parents and some suggestons for future research