Influences of Satisfaction of Leisure Time and Space on Leisure Life Satisfaction

This study examines the influences of satisfaction of leisure time and space (i.e., public and private leisure spaces) on overall leisure life satisfaction, after controlling for respondents’demographic, socio-economic, and geographical characteristics. Based on the data from 2019 National Leisure Activity Survey, this study performed a series of analysis, including descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis. The results of the analyses indicate that leisure time was more significantly related to respondents’ overall leisure life satisfaction than leisure spaces. Particularly, leisure time satisfaction during weekday largely influenced on the overall leisure life satisfaction compared to leisure time satisfaction during weekend. Regarding public and private leisure spaces, the influences of the two different spaces were inconsistent. While public space was significantly related to the leisure life satisfaction, the influence of the private space was greater than the public space, when applying the mean value of the summed scored of three question items of the private spaces into a regression analysis. The result reveals that leisure life satisfaction is likely to be enhanced by those collaborative efforts from both public and private leisure spaces, although leisure time was the most important consideration for leisure life satisfaction.