The purpose of this study is to identify as to how job patterns including working
hours per week and monthly income and leisure resources including leisure hours in
weekdays and weekends, leisure time sufficiency degree in weekdays and weekends,
expenditures on leisure activity and their satisfaction level among wage earning
women aged between the twenties and forties have impacted on their leisure life
satisfaction level. Original document this study has referred is the national survey on
public leisure life contributed by panels and it has analyzed a total of 1,318 samples.
The result of this study as follows: First, there has been a difference in leisure
resources based on the respondents’ maternal status. Second, as to the unmarried
female laborers, their monthly income has influenced leisure expenditures satisfaction
degree. Third, only married female workers has responded that working hours per
week and monthly income have exercised an impact on their leisure life satisfaction
level. Forth, it has been identified that the amount of leisure time given and its
sufficiency degree during weekdays, and leisure expenses satisfaction level in total
have affected the leisure life satisfaction level of the unmarried female wage
earners. Meanwhile, leisure time sufficiency degree in weekdays and weekends, and
leisure expenses and their satisfaction level have impacted on the leisure life
satisfaction level of the married female workers. It could be argued that for the
married female workers, the relationship between work and leisure might be mutually
exclusive. considering a variety of impacts on their leisure life depending on their job
patterns, in-depth discussions and researches, it seems, could be required.