本研究主要以Stebbins的認真休閒理論為基礎，旨在探討自國小時即持績參與各項認真休閒活動的學生，在大學時期其健康感是否高於其他未參與各項認真休閒活動的學生，而加入性別變項之後，所呈現的結果是否又有差異。 研究過程利用台灣教育長期追蹤資料庫《TEPS》之「臺灣青少年成長歷程研究」計畫調查數據，以迴歸分析法進行分析。 針對本研究目的，進行結果分析之後，發現：考慮性別影響差異的模型中，發現大學男生健康感平均高於女生，國小「運動舞蹈」和「音樂」休閒競賽參與對大學健康感有正向影響。在無性別變數模型則得到國小「運動舞蹈」和國小「音樂」競賽參與對大學健康有正向影響之外，另發現國小「美術書法」競賽對大學時期健康有負向影響。再根據其間結果差異，研判性別指標是關係大學快樂感的重大解釋變數，遺漏此重要變數會導致模型設定錯誤和認真休閒影響的估計偏誤。 最後，我們根據研究結果進行討論，並對未來學生在選擇參與具認真休閒特質的各項活動上，提供建議及參考，期望學生在忙於課業之餘．所選擇的休閒活動都能使其身心獲得最高的認真休閒效益。 Based mainly on Stebbins’ Serious Leisure Theory, this study investigates the students who have been continually participating in various serious leisure activities since elementary school. The purpose is to find out if their sense of physical health, after entering college, are better than other students who have not participated in various serious leisure activities, and to see if the results are different when gender variable is added to the study. The study utilizes the Education Panel Survey data from the Taiwan Youth Project and puts them into regression analysis. According to the subject and question of this study, we find out that in the model which takes the impact of gender differences into account, the average of college boys’ sense of physical health is higher than that of girls, and participation in “sports dance” and “music” competitions during elementary school has positive impacts on sense of physical health during college. In the model without gender variable, the participation in “sports dance” and “music” competition during elementary school has positive influences on sense of physical health during college, and I also find out “arts and calligraphy” competition in elementary school has negative impacts on sense of physical health during college. Based on these results, I conclude that gender index is a prominent explanatory variable related to happiness in college, and omitting this important variable will lead to model specification errors and estimation bias of the impact of serious leisure. At last , we discuss the results of the study and provide suggestions and references for students, who may choose to participate in various activities with serious leisure quality, hoping that the activities they choose enable them to have the maximum benefits of serious leisure, both physically and mentally, while they’re busy studying.
