ABSTRACT

The Influence of Well-being Seeking Orientation on Physical Self-Efficacy and Cultural Value Orientation in Elderly Senior Dance Participants


Lee, Kwang-ok
Major in Physical Education
Graduate School of Education
Gangneung-Wonju National University

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of well-being seeking orientation on physical self-efficacy and cultural value orientation in elderly senior dance participants in an effort to determine how it would affect the lives and culture of the elderly in aging society in the future.
As for the subjects of this study, a population was composed of 400 people who were selected from among the elderly people who were at the ages of 60 and up and who participated in senior dance programs in community service centers, lifelong learning centers, senior welfare agencies and dance clubs in four cities in the region of Youngdong, Gangwon Province, which were Gangneung, Donghae, Samcheok and Sokcho. A survey was conducted, and the data from 360 participants were used. SPSS version 26.0 for Windows that is a statistical program was employed to analyze the data to reach the following conclusion.
The major findings of the study were as follows:
First, whether there were any differences among the elderly senior dance participants according to their demographic characteristics in well-being seeking orientation, physical self-efficacy and cultural value orientation was analyzed. As a result, well-being seeking orientation differed according to age and monthly mean spending money. Physical self-efficacy varied with gender and monthly mean spending money, and there were differences in cultural value orientation according to all the demographic characteristics that were gender, age, monthly mean spending money and senior dance career.
Second, whether the well-being seeking orientation of the elderly senior dance participants affected their physical self-efficacy was analyzed. Concerning perceived physical competence according to well-being seeking orientation, physical/environmental seeking orientation, mental/ psychological seeking orientation and physical seeking orientation were significantly influential. As to physical self-disclosure, all the physical/ environmental seeking orientation, mental/psychological seeking orientation and physical seeking orientation were significantly influential as well.
Third, whether the well-being seeking orientation of the elderly senior dance participants affected their cultural value orientation was analyzed. Regarding horizontal individualism according to well-being seeking orientation, mental/psychological seeking orientation and physical seeking orientation were significantly influential. As to vertical individualism, physical/environmental seeking orientation was significantly influential. As for horizontal collectivism and vertical collectivism, physical seeking orientation was significantly influential.
Fourth, the causal relationships among the well-being seeking orientation, physical self-efficacy and cultural value orientation of the elderly senior dance participants were analyzed, and it''s proven that well-being seeking orientation exerted a direct influence on physical self-efficacy and cultural value orientation. Physical self-efficacy had a direct impact on cultural value orientation, and cultural value orientation was indirectly affected by well-being seeking orientation through physical self-efficacy.