A Study of Cyclists, Participation Motivation, Serious Leisure and Recreational Specialization
Chou, Hsiu- Yueh *
Department of Technical and Vocation Education, National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, No.123, Sec. 3, University Road, Douliou City, Yunlin County 64002, Taiwan, R.O.C.
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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the structural relationship among cyclists’ participation motivation; serious leisure and recreational specialization. In this study, cyclists were used as the research object, non-random sampling method was used, and a total of 237 effective questionnaires were collected. After descriptive statistics and partial least squares (PLS) statistics analysis, the results show that: the cyclists’ participation motivation is higher, their characteristics of serious leisure are more obvious, and the recreational specialization also higher; and cyclists have characteristics of serious leisure their recreational specialization is also higher. In addition, the study also confirms that serious leisure has a mediate effect on recreational specialization.
Keywords: Cyclist, participation motivation, recreational specialization, serious leisure