The purpose of this study was to investigate why people are fascinated by screen golf and enthusiastic about that among passionate scale, flow experience and continuous participation. This study was focused on revealing the processes and reasons why p...
The purpose of this study was to investigate why people are fascinated by screen golf and enthusiastic about that among passionate scale, flow experience and continuous participation. This study was focused on revealing the processes and reasons why people participated in screen golf, and contributed baseline data to be a golf-culture.
To accomplish of this research, participants who have played screen golf at least one time so far in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do were selected, and using convenience sampling method.
Of the 300 questionnaires, 50 were eliminated because of missing information, which left us with a total of 250 final, usable surveys.
The data were analyzed by SPSS statistic program Window Ver. 18.0; Exploratory Factor Analysis, Reliability Analysis, Frequency Analysis, t-test, One Way ANOVA, Scheffe Analysis, Multiple Regression Analysis, and Path Analysis. The results were as follows.
First, there were significant differences among the screen golfer passionate scale, flow experience and participation continuous intention based on the characteristics of participants.
Second, passionate scale of screen golfer has a significant effect on flow experience.
Third, passionate scale of screen golfer has a significant influence on continuous participation intention.
Fourth, flow experience of screen golfer has a significant impact on continuous participation intention.
Lastly, there was a connection passionate scale, flow experience and continuous participation intention of screen golfer.
As a result of this study, I found that when people play screen golf with enthusiasm, they would most likely participate consistently. Thus, there was significant effects harmonious and compulsive enthusiasm, which are sub-factors of enthusiasm scales, on immersion and continuous participation intention. However, I believe that if the harmonious enthusiasm might be increased, more positive and effective immersion and continuous participation intention will be increased because there is a limitation that compulsive enthusiasm might cause obsession, which is a sub-factor of the enthusiasm scales. Therefore, future research should be focus on finding ways increasing harmonious enthusiasm screen golf participants.