Xi 'an Urban Elderly Leisure Behavior Research

The baby boomer, the progress of medicine, the decline in fertility rates andother factors led to the rising ratio of the world’s elderly population. The agingpopulation has become a global phenomenon in the21st century. Chinese turned toaging in1999, becoming one of the earlier aging societies in developing countries.China ranks the first in the aging population. According to the fifth nationalpopulation census statistics, Xi’an citizens turned into aging in2000and Xi’anbecame one of the earliest aging cities in China.Old age is the twilight years of the life cycle. Due to the physiological andpsychological factors, older people degrade in their social productivity and individualaction capacity, so they have plenty of leisure time. Leisure is not only beneficial tophysical health, but also helpful in improving the elderly retired life and spiritual life.Leisure through society and individuals can help the elderly to kill time, to avoidsocial dislocation and feeling of loss, so high-quality leisure for the elderly is veryimportant. Intensified with the aging problem, the leisure of the elderly has becomeone of China’s urgent research subjects, so the study of leisure behavior in the elderlyis of great significance.This paper takes the old-age residents of Xi’an as sample to collect object byStratified sampling method, making use of the covariance software of the SPSS16.0to carry on reliability and validity analysis, descriptive statistics, analysis of variance,cross-list analysis, T test analysis of the status of the Xi’an elderly leisure, leisurebehavior of the constraints and leisure satisfaction, etc. This paper consists of sixparts. The first part elaborates the research background, significance, methods, ideas,basic framework, difficulties and innovations; The second part reviews the mainfindings of the elderly leisure at home and abroad to understand the history related tothis subject, status and development trend; The third part elaborates the theoreticalbasis of this study and the definition of the elderly and the concept of leisureconsumption; The fourth part describes this study design, mainly including the designof the questionnaire, respondents and location selection, questionnaires and recovery, data analysis methods and description of the basic situation of the sample; The fifthpart is the part of empirical study. Through the analysis of Xi’an elderly leisurebehavior, the analysis of leisure activity preferences and actual participationcomparative study, and the empirical study on leisure consumption, leisuresatisfaction and life quality analysis, it has shown that the leisure facilities for theelderly are mainly concentrated in home and community, leisure venues spatialdistance being within1000meters. There is discrepancy due to gender differences inoutdoor and home leisure time; there is also discrepancy between leisure activitypreferences and participation. In terms of demographic characteristics, there is alsodiscrepancy for restricting the elderly to choose leisure activity factors. It also showsthat aging citizens in Xi’an are moderately satisfied with leisure activities. The sixthpart includes the conclusions and the countermeasures. Some countermeasures andsuggestions are proposed to improve older people’s leisure quality from individual,government and society perspectives. Lastly, the deficiency of the research has beenpointed out and the further research prospect proposed.