The purpose of this study were to investigate motivations for participating in sports and being absorbed in risk sports. Furthermore, the goal was to explores the relationships among involvement motivation, sports commitment, and behavior after partic...
The purpose of this study were to investigate motivations for participating in sports and being absorbed in risk sports. Furthermore, the goal was to explores the relationships among involvement motivation, sports commitment, and behavior after participating in the of risk sports. For this study a structural covariance model was developed on the basis of the 840 risk sports (rock climbing, skin scuba diving, mountain bike, and paragliding) participants surveyed using the disproportionate stratified cluster sampling method.
The question items for measuring the risk sports participation's motivation based on the 7 point Likert Scale qusetionnaire adjusted for this research were developed by vallerand et al. (1992) and developed by Wessinger and Bandalos(1995) and standardized in Korean language by Jung(1997), for the sport commitment developed by Scanlan et al. (1993) and standardized in korean language by Jung(1997), and for participant behavior developed by Yoo & Kwon(1997) and Ann(2000). To analyze the data, the covariance structure analysis were used.
skill development and enjoyment factors in the internal motivation positively influence on the sports commitment and society, physical/health in the external motivation tend to influence positively, and the sports commitment positively influence on the behavior after participating in the risk sports.