本研究旨在探討小鎮婦女從事休閒時所感受到的休閒體驗爲何，並進一步分析可能影響婦女生活體驗的三個因素－教育程度、家庭生命週期和就業狀況與其休閒體驗間之關係。本研究之調查對象爲員林地區之居民，以亂數和系統隨機抽樣法選取家庭進行家戶調查，調查工具爲自填式問卷，共取得348名有效的婦女樣本進行分析。
本研究結果顯示：在婦女的正面休閒體驗構面中，以「愉悅好玩」、「獨立自由」和「寬心祥和」的分數較高，而「聰明幹練」則最低。另一方面，負面體驗的構面中，以「依賴受限」和「欠缺女性特質」的感受最深，感受程度最低的則是「有罪惡感」。
婦女的教育程度不同，在正面體驗中的「具信心安全感」、「積極決斷」構面，以及負面體驗中的「有罪惡感」、「欠缺女性特質」構面上皆有顯著差異。家庭生命週期不同，在正面體驗中的「積極決斷」的構面和負面體驗中的「缺乏信心安全感」、「焦躁易怒」、「有罪惡感」、「欠缺女性特質」、「被動害羞」構面上均具有顯著差異。另外，婦女的就業狀況不同，在正面體驗中的「具信心安全感」、「獨立自由」、「寬心祥和」、「應得報償」和「積極決斷」構面上呈現顯著性差異；在負面體驗中的「有罪惡感」和「欠缺女性特質」構面上亦有顯著差異。
本研究最後就以上結果進行詮釋，並針對如何提升婦女的休閒體驗及未來的研究提出建議，俾能對增進國內婦女的生活福祉有所助益。

The objectives of the investigation were to discern how the women at Yuan-Lin, a small town in Central Taiwan, perceived their leisure, and how educational level, family life cycle and employment status of these women were related to their leisure experience. Using a systematic random sampling method, 760 households of Yuan-Lin were drawn from the Directory of Yuan-Lin Households. With personal distribution of a 3-page-long, self-administered questionnaire to each accessible household, 10 research assistants collected 348 useable questionnaires from the female residents to enter the analysis.
The study found that, among the positive leisure experience categories, enjoyment, independence, and serenity ranked the first, second and third places with competence the last. On the other hand, of the eight negative dimensions, dependence and lack of femininity were the most strongly felt whereas guilt was the least perceived.
Educational level was significantly related to security and assertiveness categories in the positive experience and to the negative affect of guilt and lack of femininity. Family life cycle also had significant relationships with one positive experiential category-assertiveness and four negative experiential aspects, namely, lack of security, irritability, guilt, and lack of femininity. In addition, employment status was significantly associated with positive experience of security, independence, serenity, deservedness, and assertiveness and with negative perception of guilt and lack of femininity.
Finally, the implications of the research findings were discussed, and recommendations for leisure providers and future research were made.