抄録
We cannot see so many cases that people in the community spontaneously organize sport related activities in developing areas. The purpose of this study is to verify the contribution of the participation in sport activities to life satisfaction in such developing areas, by the examination of a case example “Siem Reap Hotel Football League (SHFL)" in Cambodia. In 2008, questionnaires were send to a total of 400 persons, 200 of whom were registered players in SHFL2008, and 200 of whom were hotel employees, aged sixteen to forty, as a control group. After verifying the characteristics of players by using dummy coding, which assigns values “1" and “0" to reflect the players and non-players, path analysis was used to examine the impacts of participation in SHFL.The findings in dicated that the participation in SHFL (as a player) had influenceon “group cohesion", “self esteem", and “physical and mentalhealth" shown as SHFL goals. Moreover, “group cohesion" and “physicaland mental health" had influence on “life satisfaction". Therefore the participation in SHFL had certain influence on the players' life satisfaction, which shows the effectiveness of sport activities in developing areas, and it can be aclue for the discussion of sport activities held in poor environments with lacking of human resources, materials or facilities as a whole.
