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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among leisure flow, subjective health, and successful aging in female elderly participating in aquarobics. To attain these purpose, the subjects for data were 293 female elderly, selected using the cluster random sampling, among the aged 65 or above who attend the public welfare center and swimming pool in seoul and Gyonggi-do. The tool for survey study was used "leisure flow scale" which developed Scanlan(1993) and translated by Jung(1997), "subjective health scale" which developed by Hong(1998) and "successful aging scale" revised which developed by Kim & Shin(2005). To analyze the collected data, quantitative data were analyzed through the factor analysis, correlation and multiple regression analysis using statistical package of SPSS 18.0. The results obtained through the above analyses are as the following. Firstly, leisure flow by female elderly participating in aquarobics affected subjective health. Secondly, leisure flow by female elderly participating in aquarobics affected successful aging. Thirdly, subjective health by female elderly participating in aquarobics affected successful aging.