Relationship among Self-efficacy, Psychological Happiness and Life Satisfaction of the Elderly Participating in Community Dance

Kim, Sun
Department of Dance
College of Arts
Chonbuk National University


The old people who are enrolled in the life dance programs operated by 3 welfare centers, Korean classic music halls and women sports centers in J city were selected as population for the present study by using the convenient sampling method. A total of 250 questionnaire were distributed to the selected subjects and 208 replies from them were put to use for the final analysis after deducting 42 which were deemed to be irrelevant as more than 5 queries were not replied or the same replies were repeated to different queries. As a measuring tool, 5-point Likert scale was used to rate 62 items of queries in total after its revision and complement to make it comply with the objectives of the study. Each questionnaires was composed of 6 items of queries asking personal characters, 16 items concerning self-efficacy, 20 concerning psychological happiness and 20 concerning life satisfaction. The data underwent such analyses as exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. From the analyses, following conclusions could be drawn:

First, the self-efficacy of the elderly participating in community dance turned out to have influence upon their psychological happiness. The sub-factors of self-efficacy such as self-assurance, difficulties of task and self regulation exercised significant impacts upon sense of satisfaction as sub-factor of psychological happiness, whereas self-assurance and self regulation affected the sense of achievement significantly. Second, self-efficacy of those who participated in community dance were found to exert significant influence upon life satisfaction, while self-assurance, as a sub-factor of self-efficacy, affected significantly empirical satisfaction as a sub-factor of life satisfaction and difficulties of task as well as self regulation had impact upon the emotional satisfaction of life satisfaction. Third, the old people''s psychological happiness active in community dance showed significant influence upon life satisfaction while such sub-factors of happiness as senses of satisfaction and achievement exercised fundamental influence upon empirical satisfaction, a sub factor of life satisfaction.

Key words : Self-efficacy, psychological happiness, life satisfaction, community dance, old people