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국제무예학회 학술지영문홈페이지
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International Journal of Martial Arts - Vol. 6, pp.1-14
ISSN: 2287-8599 (Online)
Online publication date 24 Feb 2020
Received 27 Nov 2019 Accepted 14 Feb 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.51222/injoma.2020.11.6.1

Influence of Training Satisfaction on Acculturative Stress and Life Satisfaction: Taekwondo Trainees in the U.S. Army in the Republic of Korea

Dongchan Kim ; Sungkyun Choa
aGraduate of school physical education, Kyunghee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do

Abstract

Objective

This study was conducted to determine the capacity of taekwondo as a leisure activity to reduce the acculturative stress of U.S. soldiers stationed in the Republic of Korea (ROK; South Korea) and to improve their working efficiency. An additional, goal was to determine whether taekwondo was an appropriate activity for the Korean head-start program by investigating its effectiveness in minimizing U.S. soldiers’ acculturative stress and maximizing their life satisfaction in South Korea.

Methods

To achieve those goals, the researchers surveyed 200 U.S. soldiers while they were stationed in South Korea, using convenience sampling. Among the collected questionnaires, the researchers discarded 23 with unusable or corrupted responses, leaving 177 questionnaires for data analysis. To acquire the results, frequency analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, and multi-regression analyses were performed using SPSS ver. 23 and AMOS 21.0.

Results

The results indicate that taekwondo training satisfaction is a negative predictor of acculturative stress and a positive predictor of life satisfaction, and that acculturative stress is a negative predictor of life satisfaction.

Conclusion

The findings are discussed in light of previous works, along with ways to improve the taekwondo program as a leisure activity to reduce acculturative stress.

Keywords:

Taekwondo, leisure, training satisfaction, acculturative stress, life satisfaction, U.S. soldier

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