A Study on the Relationships between Serious Leisure and Leisure Constraints for Golfer

• Main Authors: You-Jin Lin, 林佑瑾
• Other Authors: Ying-Hong Li
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5c2ba7

碩士 === 靜宜大學 === 觀光事業學系研究所 === 91 === The research of leisure constraints focused on demographic background in past years. Little research to date has attempted to the participants of particular activities. Serious leisure is a new issue in leisure field, and there are serious leisure participants in each activity. The study is an explored research：a case of golf activity. The purpose of the study was to investigate the differences in leisure constraints, serious leisure between serious leisure participants and non-serious leisure participants. The relationships of leisure constraints and serious leisure were also analyzed. On-site structured questionnaires and the purposive sampling were used to gather data. In the study, 550 questionnaires were distributed to partaking parties in Xing-nong golf course. 276 forms were obtained. Since 56 of them are imperfect questionnaires, there were 224 usable forms. The finding showed that：（1）There is significant difference on leisure constraints of t-test between serious leisure participants and non-serious leisure participants. The serious leisure participants experienced constraints lower than non-serious leisure participants especially in intrapersonal constraints and interpersonal constraints.（2）There is significant difference on serious leisure of t-test between serious leisure participants and non-serious leisure participants. The serious leisure participants experienced constraints higher than non-serious leisure ones.（3）Canonical correlation analysis was utilized to inspect the relationships between serious leisure and leisure constraints. The first three accounted for the significant standards. There are three significant linear relationships between serious leisure and leisure constraints. The following suggestions are put forward according to the result of the research：（1）Practical managements. The results of the structure constraints provide ideas of managing and improving golf course to managers. The marketing segmentation plans are based on the data of serious leisure participants which need golf course environments to target markets and map out suitable marketing programs.（2）Follow-up studies. The researchers can choose other activities with distinct types or skills to analyze the serious leisure participants and increase the number of consulting professionals to make sure the gauge of serious leisure at the same time. The researchers can aim at whether the causal relationships are between serious leisure and leisure constraints to generalize complete research results. 【Keywords】serious leisure, leisure constraints, golf activity