RESEARCH ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHILDREN'SFUN-ACTIVITIES, OUT OF SCHOOL ACTIVITIES AND QOL

Abstract

In recent years, in Japan, Quality of Life (QOL), which refers to the quality of each person's life and socially viewed quality of life, is regarded as important, and research on children's QOL is also in progress. While the decrease of children's play time is regarded as a problem, in this study, we examined the relationship between children's fun-activities and out of school activities in the upper grades of elementary school and the QOL of children. As a result, children's QOL and play contents, time, number of people, the playground is closely related, QOL (high) children shown a high percentage of play outside and with more other children. QOL (low) children on the other hand prefer to play alone in own home. In addition, factor analysis of QOL was conducted by Quantification Method Type I, it was found that sleeping time and the number of people to play with hold a large influence on children's QOL.