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The purpose of this study is to provide basic material for assuring the importance of sports promotion in the aspects of ideal life and happiness by identifying the relationship between elderly’s sports participation (if they participate and how much they participate), self-efficacy and feeling of helplessness. Through data analysis with the study method and procedures presented in this study, the following conclusion has been obtained. First, after analyzing elderly’s self-efficacy of participation in sports, it was found that the group participating in sports had higher self-efficacy than the group not participating. However, their self-efficacy did not differ according to covariates such as gender, age, academic background, money (allowance) and marital status. Second, after analyzing elderly’s feeling of helplessness of participation in sports, it was found that the group participating in sports had lower feeling of helplessness than the group not participating. Their feeling of helplessness differ according to some covariates such as academic background and marital status. Third, after analyzing the causal relationship between elderly’s level of participation in sports, self-efficacy and feeling of helplessness, it was found that elderly’s level of participation in sports imposed significant influence on self-efficacy whereas, self-efficacy had an effect on feeling of helplessness. However, elderly’s level of participation in sports did not have direct influence on their feeling of helplessness. This means that level of participation in sports influences feeling of helplessness through self-efficacy. Therefore, this suggests that when explaining elderly’s feeling of helplessness, the antecedents of self-efficacy must be considered.