A Study On The Relationship Between Night-time Leisure Activities And Subjective Well-being Of "the Post-80"

From practical perspective, as urban tourism research is increasingly developed, night-time leisure activities are becoming a new kind of urban tourism product. In order to meet the demand of practice, this paper suggests that the urban tourism research should be considered to the development of night-time leisure activities. From theoretical perspective,"Leisure Satisfaction" is often used as the dependent variable in plenty of Chinese studies. But in reality, how will the improvement of leisure satisfaction affect to resident life, this research question remains to be seen in practice. This paper suggests that the ultimate goal of leisure activities not only affects leisure satisfaction, but also resident’s subjective well-being. However, there is a lack of empirical support on the relationship between China night-time leisure activities and subjective well-being. Based on the above analysis, this paper researches the relationship between subjective well-being and night-time leisure activities has both theoretical and practical value.Based on the review of related literature, taking Hangzhou as a case study, the paper is focused on the post-80generation, researched the relationship between night-time leisure acitivitis and subjective well-being and taken social support as a moderator variable in this relationship. This study used the Nottingham Leisure Questionnaire as measurement tool of night-time leisure activities, PANAS Scale, SWLS Scale as measurement tool of subjective well-being and Social Support Rating Scale as measurement tool of social support, then took a survey and collected the data for statistical analysis. Statistical analysis methods that used in this paper are:factor analysis, correlation analysis, analysis of variance and hierarchical regression analysis.Four major findings are found through the collection and analysis of empirical data, including:①a significant positive relationship between social activities, recreation activities, physical activities and life satisfaction;②a significant positive relationship between social activities, physical activities and positive affect; no statistically significant correlation between recreation activities and positive affect;③a significant negative relationship between physical activities and negative affect; no statistically significant correlation between social activities, recreation activities and negative affect;④social support plays a partial moderator role to the night-time leisure activities and positive affect, negative affect; no statistically significant moderator role in relationship between the night-time leisure activities and life satisfaction. The results reveal that participating the night-time leisure activities is a manifestation of resident’s life satisfaction, especially through improving positive affect to get the balance of positive affect and negative affect, which affected subjective well-being.According to the results, combined with the practical experience in China tourism planning, the paper briefly discusses the principles into developing and managing night-time leisure activities into tourism and recreation utilities in China.