The purpose of the study was to provide useful references for leisure studies among
married couples as a whole by analyzing the Leisure Constraints Perception of ‘unplanned
pregnant’ married couples through grounded theory. The total of 6 legally married couples
from Seoul and Gyeong-gi area, who were pregnant before the marriage and currently
raising infant(s), were selected as participants. The collected data were processed through
‘open coding,’ ‘axial coding,’ and‘selective coding’ according to the ‘grounded theory’ of
Strauss & Corbin(1990, 1998). The result was formed with a total of 116 concepts, 18
sub-categories, and 9 upper-categories. According to the categorization, the relationship
among six paradigm axes, which are causal conditions, context, phenomenon, intervening
conditions, action/interaction strategies, and consequences were defined. Lastly, the study
proposed the core category of ‘giving up participating in leisure activity’ by telling the
overall story about how the six paradigms interact each other. The result analysis indicated
that the leisure constraints’ perception of ‘unplanned pregnant’ married couple is more
fundamental and stronger compared to the perception of those couples who planned
orderly.