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This study was to find out how the type of participation in walking activity relates to the improvement of physical self-concept, and how the growing of the improvement in self perception relating to physique affects on subjective happiness. For this study, 865 were sampled from 20years old above participating in walking exercise in Gangwondo by stratified cluster random sampling. And processing the resultant data employed frequency analysis, exploratory and confirm factor analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis by SPSS 15.0 and AMOS 5.0 program. From the analyses of the data, the study reached the following conclusions: First, there come meaningful differences among sports competence, health, physical activity, flexibility, endurance by breathe tempo. Second, there come meaningful differences among appearance, physical activity, flexibility, endurance by participation time. Third, there come meaningful differences among body fat, physical activity, endurance, self concepts by participation behaviors. Forth, physical self-concept had a meaning effect on subjective happiness. Considering this result, walking participants feel to improve the sense of physical self-concept. The sense of subjective happiness has improved with an increase of self conception with own’s body.