The study of leisure activities during the covid-19 pandemic—a case study of taiwan

The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly changed the lives of most people all over the world, including working style, social communication, consumption behaviour, leisure activities, and so forth. Physical health and mental health are important to human life. Many people get physical health and mental health by doing leisure activities, including outdoor and indoor activities; therefore, leisure activities play an essential role for life. The purpose of the study was to understand subjects’ opinions about the COVID-19 pandemic on leisure activities. An online survey was carried out to investigate Taiwanese people’s viewpoints on leisure activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers designed a leisure activities questionnaire and analysed the data by SPSS 17.0. There were 547 valid samples in the study. The researchers found that over three-fourths of the subjects were from southern Taiwan. About one-fourth of the subjects were students, and near one-fifth of the subjects were teachers and government employees. More than 40% of the subjects thought that the COVID-19 pandemic had negative effects on leisure activities while as one-fourth positive effects. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, over 30% of the subjects took over seven hours to do leisure activities in a week while as post the COVID-19 pandemic over 30% of the subjects less than one hour.