本研究旨在探討老年人身體活動對生活滿意度之影響情形。本研究採問卷調查法，自編「老年人身體活動與生活滿意度調查問卷」，以屏東市各社區、教會、廟宇、學校等地方，年齡65歲以上之老年人為研究對象，採立意抽樣方式進行施測，總計發出260份問卷，回收之有效問卷192份。使用SPSS 17.0 for windows統計套裝軟體，將搜集的資料以描述性統計、單因子變異數分析、皮爾森積差相關、薛費法等統計方法進行資料分析，顯著水準p<.05。研究結果顯示：（一）老年人的身體活動量偏向不足，主要從事的身體活動以散步及輕鬆家事為主；（二）老年人的生活滿意度偏向滿意，尤其以情緒狀態層面最高；（三）老年人的身體活動量與生活滿意度呈顯著正相關。（四）高身體活動量組的老年人，其生活滿意度顯著高於低身體活動量組。

The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of elderly physical activity for life satisfaction. The questionnaire investigation was adopted by physical activity and life satisfaction scale for the elderly. This research subjects were elderly who used some places like community, church, temple and school in Pingtung City. In all to send out 260 questionnaires by purposive sampling, and 192 effective questionnaires were collected. All collected data were processed with descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s product moment correlation analysis, and Scheffe method, setting the significant level at p< .05. The results were found as following: (1) Elderly physical activity inclined toward not enough, major to take a walk and easier housework. (2) Elderly life satisfaction inclined toward satisfaction, and the Emotional connotation to the highest (3) There were significant correlation between physical activity and life satisfaction (4) The high activity group performs significant better than low activity group in life satisfaction.