The purpose of this study was to empirically examine the structural relationship between the psychosocial factors which play key roles in influencing silver dance program continuous behavior of participation based on the theory of planned behavior for elderly.
Once attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioral control, exercise intention, continuous behavior, cognitive commitment and exercise addiction were derived as seven latent factors from a review of previous studies, two competitive models for their structural relationship were established. Moreover, to examine any structural relation among those variables, the most validated and appropriate model for aged silver dance program continuous behavior of participation by specifying suitability of the model and its explanation through the structural equation model was verified.
To accomplish the purpose of the study, a survey been conducted for 50 days, from February 11th to March 31st in 2016, to elderly participating silver dance program in the elder’s college, senior welfare service center, community center, culture center and so on among elder’s activity facilities in Seoul, Inchon and Gyeong-gi province. Total 340 questionnaires were collected and data filtering process, total 322 copies were secured and used for the finalized result analysis.
For data analysis, frequency analysis was performed to learn the demographic distribution of the study subject by using SPSS 22.0 and Amos 22.0 programs, exploratory factor analysis was conducted to verify the reliability and validity of the measured variables and reliability analysis was performed to confirm the reliability of measuring tools.
Implemented a confirmatory factor analysis and correlation analysis, through the planned behavior theory, implemented a structural equation model analysis, in order to research the cause and effects between exercise intention, continuous behavior, and psychosocial factors.
Also, through path analysis, to test the decency and structural relations, compared the research model to its competitive model. and chose the most suitable model’s modification indices to properly modify the model, and used bootstraps to testify the total effects, direct effects, indirect effects of the modified competitive model.
As the result of the data analysis, the modified competitive model(model 3), which hypothesized that perceived behavioral control mediating of exercise intention, continuous behavior influence over cognitive commitment, exercise addiction and cognitive commitment influence of over exercise addiction was adopted as the most appropriate model.