Relationship among health perception, exercise involvements, and exercise satisfaction of participation leisure sports

The purpose of the this study was examined the relationship between health perception, exercise involvement, and exercise satisfaction among participants in leisure sports. The subjects of this study were selected from participants in leisure sports in Chungcheong province. The final collected data consists of a total of 341 responses. Data processing for this study used frequency analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and the bootstrapping method of structural equation modeling(SEM). The conclusions presented through this study were as follows. Firstly, the health perception of leisure sports participants was found to influence exercise involvement. Secondly, the health perception of leisure sports participants did not appear to affect exercise satisfaction. Thirdly, exercise involvement of leisure sports participants was found to influence exercise satisfaction. Lastly, exercise involvement of leisure sports participants was found to mediate the relationship between health perception and exercise satisfaction. Based on the above results, it is suggested that various events should be organized to increase exercise involvement among leisure sports participants.