The exploration of participation motive, lasting factor, leisure benefit, and cost in serious leisure -taking the grade school teachers who like shuttlecock as the example

• Main Author: 羅寶珍
• Other Authors: Chun-Hsiung Kao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14997327262077474305

碩士 === 國立體育大學 === 體育研究所 === 95 === ABSTRACT This study took grade school teachers who like shuttlecock as the example to explore participation motive, lasting factor, leisure benefit, and cost in 「the hobby type」 serious leisure participant. In addition, the author also compared the difference between serious leisure and casual leisure. This research adopted the qualitative research method. The author noted down the interview outline, and took the structural and open in-depth interview based on the Stebbins’ serious leisure theory. Those participant with more than two years badminton experience and must played badminton 3 times per week in the latest 3 months including 5 males and 5 femaless. The result of this study indicates: First, the participation motive has 8 items included self-interest, release of pressure, body building, fostering exercise habit, pursued the skill, the peer’s invitation, making friends and recreation. To analyze the attitude of these interviewees and content proportion, the author found body building, the peer’s invitation and making friends are the stronger participation motive. Second, the most important reason of these interviewees participation motive included enjoying the interaction atmosphere, promotion of the interpersonal relationships, physical and mental healthy promotion, experiencing the good recreation feelings, the establishment of routine habit, gaining the achievement, pursuing the better performance, deeply impression, others' support and recognition of the group. Third, regarding to the analysis of leisure benefit, there are 4 respects which include (1) The psychological benefit had self-fulfillment, self-actualization, self-performance, the elevation of self-image and self-satisfaction. (2) The physiological benefit had keeping healthy, energy buildup, keeping good shape, body and mind rebuild, resuming spirit, abreacting emotion, adjusting mood, forgetting anxiety and releasing pressure. (3) Social benefit part included all was helpful to the family and interpersonal relationships. (4) Benefit of other respects included helpful to the individual’s job and life. Fourth, in the analysis of the leisure cost, the author found that the cost interviewees had to pay in the badminton activity includes (1) Negative mood, for instance: tense, frustration, anxiety, pressure, hate, boredom, disappointment, etc. (2) Body injury. (3) Conflict of the interpersonal relationships. (4) Negative effects to the work, etc. All interviewees took the positive attitude to face the leisure cost that they have to stand. They also recognized that the benefit when they participated the activity was far more than these costs. Therefore, they were willing to continue to participate seriously. Fifth, the differences between serious leisure and casual leisure found by this research include (1) Relatively having the sense of achievement. (2) Having more interpersonal relationship. (3) Relatively being helpful to physically and mentally health. (4) Relatively having more demand in skill. (5) Relatively having more fun. (6) Relatively having the regularity. (7) Relatively having the security. (8) Relatively having convenience, etc. Some interviewees expressd that especially interpersonal relationship can be regarded as the unique part comparing badminton activity with other recreation activity. In addition, it was helpful in physically and mentally health.