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In this work, we study how the participation duration and satisfaction of youth's experiential activities affect their life satisfaction and sense of community in order to examine the effects and reveal the causal relationship between the observed effects. We use a structural equation model to analyze the data of 2,108 adolescents who had participated in experiential activities in the fourth annual Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey of middle school (first grade in high school). The main findings are summarized as following: first, both the participation duration and satisfaction show positive influence on youth's’ life satisfaction. Second, while the participation duration has little impact on sense of community, the satisfaction has influence on it. Third, the participation duration shows negative effect on the school adaptation, and the participation satisfaction also has influence on the school adaptation. Fourth, the school adaptation has a partial mediating effect on the relations between adolescents’ experience activities (participation duration and satisfaction), life satisfaction, and sense of community. Based on these observations, we suggest new measures to perform more effective experiential activities for adolescents.