성인여성의 요가수련유형과 생활만족도의 관계

Abstract

This study is designed to look into the differences between the life satisfaction of traditional yoga, which is predominant as a yoga practice in Korea, and that of a brandnew yoga practice including Ashtanga Vinyasa Flow Yoga and Bikram Yoga with a view to contributing to the establishment of appropriate yoga practice culture. It presents measures for the popularization of diverse yoga programs and offers materials for the development of systematic and various yoga programs. A questionnaire survey was conducted as the research method and the original participants totalled 600, who were sampled with the help of multi-stage stratified cluster random sampling after choosing female-adult yoga trainees at yoga centers and residents'self-governing centers as the population. 584 out of the 600 participants were finally selected and analyzed with the exclusion of 16 respondents whose answers were perceived unfaithful. The demographic features of this study include four items including jobs, age,academic backgrounds and income levels, and the survey posed three questions regarding frequency, period and time, asking the respondents thirty questions. The questionnaire was based on a questionnaire translated by Jong-gil Yi(1992), and a questionnaire utilized by Seong-cheol Yi(1996), Munsik Kim(1999), Hye-kyeong Kweon(2004), and Yu-jeong Cha(2007). The items were modified and complemented according to the purpose of this research, and divided into five factors including physical satisfaction, educational satisfaction, social satisfaction, psychological satisfaction and economic satisfaction for the sake of measurement. The materials collected from the survey were encoded according to the coding guideline, separately inputted into a computer and tested through one-way ANOVA,correlation analysis, and standard multiple regression analysis with the help of SPSS 17.0for Window version according to the analysis purpose. The conclusions derived from the research method and findings are as follows. First,the survey shows that there is a difference in the participation degrees (such as frequency, period, and time) and the life satisfaction of the subjects. Second, the survey shows that there is a difference in the yoga practice types and the life satisfaction of the subjects. Third, the survey shows that there is a relationship between the yoga practice types and the life satisfaction of the subjects. It follows that, as Ashtanga Vinyasa Flow Yoga and Bikram Yoga flourish only in the capital city and its vicinity of Korea, this kind of yoga popularity should be spread to other regions including Kangneung Province. Further research should be made on the types of existing yoga in conjunction with the findings of this research and more systematic and diverse yoga programs should be developed.