Effect of Lifelong Education Participation Motivation of Middle-aged Adults on Psychological Well-being: Mediating Effect of Learning Immersion

This study aims to identify the effect of lifelong education participation motivation of middleaged adults on psychological well-being.In addition, we aim to analyze the mediating effect of learning immersion in the relationship between lifelong education participation motivation and psychological well-being.To this end, we selected middle-aged adults attending an education program at a lifelong education institution located in Y City, Gyeonggi Province as the research subjects and analyzed the questionnaires of 300 respondents.The results of this study are as follows.First, as a result of examining the effect of lifelong education participation motivation on psychological well-being, among the subfactors of lifelong education participation motivation, activity orientation and goal orientation were found to have a statistically significant positive effect on psychological well-being, but learning orientation had no effect.Second, as a result of examining the mediating effect of learning immersion in the relationship between lifelong education participation motivation and psychological well-being, learning immersion had a statistically significant positive effect on psychological well-being, and participation motivation also had a statistically significant positive effect on psychological well-being.The influence of participation motivation decreased from 0.700 in the second stage to 0.482 in the third stage, and the Sobel test result showed statistical significance at z=5.719.Therefore, learning immersion showed a partial mediating effect on the influence of lifelong education participation motivation on psychological well-being.These results proved that lifelong education participation motivation of middle-aged adults has a significant influence on psychological well-being by mediating learning immersion.Therefore, in order to improve the psychological well-being of middle-aged adults, lifelong education institutions need to continuously pay attention to learning immersion by developing customized education programs and securing excellent instructors to increase the participation of lifelong education learners.