| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄大學 === 運動健康與休閒學系碩士班 === 97 === Bicycle riding has become a vogue in Taiwan. More people devote time and money participating in related activities, which result in the development of recreation specialization. “Recreation specialization” has been accepted means for understanding the multidimensional aspects of recreationists’ attitude and behavior. It was originally conceptualized by Bryan (1977) as “a continuum of behavior from general interest and low involvement to specialized interest and high involvement”, which reflected by equipment and skill used in the sport, and activity setting preferences. The purpose of this study is to investigate impact of recreation specialization, environmental attitude, and demographic characteristics on choice of recreation environmental setting.
This study was specifically to: (1) investigate the difference of recreation specialization and environment attitude among demographic groups; (2) explore the relationship between demographic characteristics and recreation environmental setting; (3) develop an optimal model by employing demographic characteristics, recreation specialization and environment attitude to predict choice of recreation environmental setting, evaluate model’s goodness of fit, and, and identify significance of individual predictor on outcome variable.
This study was conducted by a questionnaires survey based on a construct consisting of behavioral, cognitive, and affective dimensions proposed by Bryan et, al (1992). Riders who use bicycles as leisure purpose are recruited for survey, 766 samples were collected. Descriptive analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and logistic regression were utilized for statistical analysis.
Major results were as follows: (1) there were significant differences on recreation specialization environment attitude among demographic groups; (2) demographic characteristics and recreation environmental setting were related; (3) night predictors in major dimension of recreation specialization model and night predictors in sub-dimension of recreation specialization model were found to be significant in predicting choices of recreation environmental setting, both overall model fit was good, and significance of predictors were different. Findings of this study intend to provide insights with respect to practitioner practice, theoretical implications, and further research directions.
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