2023 Volume 19 Issue 2 Pages 72-77
Japanese children who are worried about being busy in a competitive society, urgently need to consider specific ways to enrich their free time. This study aimed to examine how to spend time after school to cause a sense of satisfaction in daily free time. The subjects were 965 elementary school students in Grades 3 to 6. Using a self-administered questionnaire, we asked about sex, grade, time spent in after-school activities, desires, and satisfaction with free time. Thereafter, we analyzed the relationship between satisfaction and how students spend their time after school. As a result, we can confirm with a high degree of satisfaction that with leisure time among those who did “studying,” “outdoor play,” and “talking with family,” those who answered “I wanted to do” were higher than those who answered “I didn’t want to do.” In activities such as “indoor play” and “lessons,” we cannot confirm their relationship. The results suggest that being able to engage in activities that require people to do together, have a place to gather, and a feasible time to “want to do” may give rise to a sense of satisfaction in free time.
