Study on the Relationship between Leisure Lifestyle and its Physical and Mental Health of Residents in Taiwan

A number of other applications of lifestyle analysis have been reported recently. It was used to develop a successful lottery in Britain, to predict sales at a new department store location, to understand service expectations with respect to health care, to study subcultures in Canada, to compare Hong Kong and Singapore, and to analyze complaint behavior by elderly patients dissatisfied with their health care.

Compare with the general life style scales, such as VALS and VALS2, the specific lifestyle scale (like vacation lifestyle inventory) can provide more informative data for researcher. The purpose of this research is to test the reliability and validity of a new-constructed scale of Taiwanese Leisure Lifestyle Inventory and to identify the relationships between leisure lifestyle and its physical and mental health of residents of Taiwan. 805 residents in Taiwan areas were interview by stratified sampling.