Abstract
This study focuses on senior citizens who are participating in fashion modeling classes. Modeling classes are one of the most prominent educational leisure activities that has recently garnered the attention of the elderly population. The effect of flow experience in modeling classes on perceived happiness in life was considered. Since the activities related to modeling classes are related to fashion and appearance, the mediating roles of confidence in fashion and appearance satisfaction were included as hypotheses. Survey data of 168 women aged 50 years or older were analyzed using the PROCESS macro for SPSS and SmartPLS. Flow experience was found to have a positive effect on subjective happiness, confidence in fashion, and appearance satisfaction. However, confidence in fashion had a significant impact on appearance satisfaction but not on subjective happiness. Appearance satisfaction also had a significant effect on subjective happiness. Appearance satisfaction had a significant mediation effect from flow experience to subjective happiness, but confidence in fashion did not have significant influence in the process. However, the serial multiple mediation effect through confidence in fashion and appearance satisfaction was detected to be significant from flow experience to subjective happiness. The results are expected to help establish the direction of leisure education programs for seniors and bring progress to the research agenda on the impact of fashion confidence and appearance satisfaction on senior citizens.
Highlights
An aging population is accompanied by various problems such as the deterioration of physical and mental health, as well as that of their social environment
As a result of performing the first exploratory factor analysis before analyzing the PLS-SEM, one item among the constituent items of flow experience, appearance satisfaction, and subjective happiness was excluded because it did not meet the standard for factor loading, resulting in a total of 13 items
Confidence in fashion was found to have a positive effect on appearance satisfaction (β = 0.273, p < 0.001), which is in line with the results of previous studies in which stage confidence had a significant effect on satisfaction [9]
Summary
An aging population is accompanied by various problems such as the deterioration of physical and mental health, as well as that of their social environment. As it is urgent to prepare solutions for various social and psychological problems caused by an aging population, attention has been paid to the leisure activities of seniors. According to a study by Im et al [1], participation in activities after retirement has a positive association with health and social development. Leisure activities such as dancing and physical education improve selfefficacy and self-esteem, improving people’s quality of life and satisfaction [2]. As the relationship between life and leisure activities after retirement is being re-examined, there is a greater need for research related to the field [3]
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