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Effect of Outdoor Leisure Activity Participation on Leisure Attitude, Serious Leisure, Recreational Specialization, and Leisure Satisfaction

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  • Won-Ick Song

    (Department of Sports Health Care Management, Sehan University, Yeongam-gun 58447, Republic of Korea)

  • Byoung-Wook Ahn

    (Department of Leisure Marine Sports, School of Marine-Sports, Seosan Campus, Hanseo University, Seosan-si 31962, Republic of Korea)

Abstract

Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a tendency for people to participate more frequently in outdoor leisure activities as opposed to indoor leisure activities. Leisure activities bestow various benefits. The purpose of this research is to study the effect of leisure attitude, serious leisure, recreational specialization, and leisure satisfaction among outdoor leisure activity participants in South Korea. Therefore, this research is used to analyze the relationships amongst leisure attitudes, serious leisure, recreational specialization, and leisure satisfaction among various theories about leisure. The participants in this study were collected from amongst 356 people who were frequent participants in outdoor leisure activities. For the data analysis, we used frequency, confirmatory analysis, reliability, correlation, and structural equaling modeling. The findings are as follows. First, leisure attitude had an influence on serious leisure and leisure satisfaction. Second, serious leisure had an effect on recreational specialization and leisure satisfaction. Third, recreational specialization had an influence on leisure satisfaction. According to the results of this study, leisure attitude and recreational specialization had insignificant effects, but all other hypotheses were accepted. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, it was various reasons such as, leisure attitude, serious leisure, recreational specialization, leisure satisfaction and which was continuous participation in outdoor leisure activities were confirmed in South Korea.

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  • Won-Ick Song & Byoung-Wook Ahn, 2023. "Effect of Outdoor Leisure Activity Participation on Leisure Attitude, Serious Leisure, Recreational Specialization, and Leisure Satisfaction," Societies, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-12, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsoctx:v:13:y:2023:i:7:p:155-:d:1182128
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    1. Byoung-Wook Ahn & Won-Ick Song, 2021. "A Study of Differences in Leisure Satisfaction of Leisure Activity Patterns for South Korean Adults," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(20), pages 1-10, October.
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