隨著台灣經濟進步及生活水準提升，人類休閒活動項目日益繁多，民眾可以盡情選擇適合自己的休閒活動，但也隨著科技帶來的便利造成人類身體活動機會減少，健康受到威脅，民眾開始重視休閒時間與健康問題，因此國民健康與休閒意識逐漸提升，使得從事休閒活動開始受到國人的重視與認同。但是，當人們有著較高時間的休閒參與，是否就能從中獲得較高程度的健康，並能進一步提升生活品質呢？本研究將針對這個問題進行相關分析。
本研究將使用中研院學術調查研究資料庫之2013年「台灣社會變遷調查第六期第四次」資料，並以Baron and Kenny (1986)所提出的中介效果驗證流程，探討休閒運動時間、主觀健康及生活滿意度間之因果關係。另外，根據OECD研究調查指出，台灣2015年勞工工時為2103.6小時，排名全球第四名，表示目前台灣工作時數為過長，因此本研究也探討了全職者的情況。
本研究結果顯示，在全部樣本中，休閒運動時間對主觀健康及生活滿意度皆有正向影響，而主觀健康對生活滿意度也有正向影響，且這三者間也存在中介效果，表示增加休閒運動時間可以提升個人主觀健康，而良好的主觀健康則可以增進生活滿意度。另外，在全職者樣本中，休閒運動時間及主觀健康對生活滿意度皆有正向影響，但休閒運動時間卻對主觀健康沒有影響，因此這三者間並不存在中介效果，表示全職者增加休閒運動時間只能提升生活滿意度，並不能夠透過主觀健康來影響生活滿意度。

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the relationships between the time of leisure and sports, perceived health status, and individual life satisfaction. The data of 2013 Taiwan Social Change Survey is employed in this study. The methodology employed to examine the mediating effect is proposed by Baron and Kenny (1986). In the whole sample, the results show that the time of leisure and sports is significantly and positively related to perceived health status and perceived health status is significantly and positively related to life satisfaction. Furthermore, the time of leisure and sports is significantly and positively related to life satisfaction. When perceived health status is added to the regression equation, the coefficient of the time of leisure and sports to life satisfaction becomes apparently weakens. According to Baron and Kenny (1986), the results show that there exists a mediating effect of perceived health status. In addition, in the full-time sample, the time of leisure and sports and perceived health status are significantly and positively related to life satisfaction, but the time of leisure and sports is not significantly related to perceived health status, the results show that there does not exist a mediating effect of perceived health status.

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