| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立體育學院 === 體育研究所 === 94 === Abstract
The subjects of this research were morning swimming members in private Ching Chuan Wan swimming pool in Tou Liu city Yun Lin county. This research mainly explored the differences between serious leisure and casual leisure of the serious leisure people in hobbyist type and also explore their flow experience. The research method is qualitative depth interview. For serious leisure and casual leisure, the interview outline of the Yen Chia-ju (2003) was adopted; for flow experience, the interview outline was drawn up based on the flow experience raised by the scholars. The subjects must join the swimming members more than two years continously and must go morning swimming over three times in a week during the past three moons. In other hand, the researcher induced five kinds of backgrounds: office worker, people running business at home, houseworkers, retirees, and government employees and public school teachers. Two people of each kind were picked out, so in total there were ten interviewees including 3 females amd 7 females in this research.
The result of the research shows that the differences between serious leisure and casual leisure were regularity, importance, more function, amenity, more expensive, freedom, and forcing effect. In flow experience, the results were as follows:
1. Most of them were satisfied with their skills. Some of them want to improve their skills, but the others don’t.
2. Most of them set a distance goal and they can finish each time. In feedback, the interviewees say after morning swimming, they have some special and positive feeling. However, some say they don’t have already swum for a long time.
3. Most interviewees indicate that they were afraid that the opportunities for acting decisively were relatively high and matched by their perceived ability to act because of the fear of tiring out, too much excitement, and getting suntan, stability, age, physical strength, family factors, and getting used to the swimming pool. However, some interviewees express that they choose the opportunities for acting decisively being relatively high and matched by their perceived ability to act because they were affected by their swimming pals.
4. Some interviewees indicates that they can reach the merging of actions and awareness when they swim including their body action and the strength they adopt when the swimming situation changes.
5. Some interviwees describes that for the safety, they must have concentration on the task at hand when they swim; nevertheless, some interviewees think that to have concentration on the task at hand was a kind of relaxing. Some interviewees say they can’t have concentration on the task at hand because of their chores. On the contrary, some point out that they were so familiar with the swimming skills that they don’t need to have full concentration when they swim. Instead, they can think about things at the same time when they swim.
6. Some interviewees indicate that they can have a sense of potential control of matching their body and the speed, and keeping their strength by changing different swimming styles no matter what situation happens in the swimming pool.
7. Some interviewees think the loss of self-consciousness was a feeling of swimming well. Some think it is a tempo and some express it is special happiness and relaxing experience, and still some indicate it was a feeling to be intoxicated with success. However, some say they never have this experience and they also think they won’t have this experience in the future.
8. Most interviewees indicate that time goes faster when they swim. However, one indicates that time goes slower on Sunday but faster on the week days when they swim. Anohter expresses that there was no time difference no matter they swim or not.
9. The interviewees say the reasons they join morning swimming including interests, body exercise, sports, relaxing, making friends, and kill time.
10. The interviewees feel the experience of the pleasant swimming including motive power, achievement, haredware equipments, sanitation condition, reasonable fare, amenity, healthy index, and making good friends.
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