The test of hypotheses about effects of participation in tourism activities on leisure satisfaction, leisure identity, and wellness activities Intention
Lee, Chae Do
Department of Tourism
The Graduate School
Gyeongju University
Supervised by Profe...
The test of hypotheses about effects of participation in tourism activities on leisure satisfaction, leisure identity, and wellness activities Intention
Lee, Chae Do
Department of Tourism
The Graduate School
Gyeongju University
Supervised by Professor Joo, Hyun Sik
(Abstract)
This study was conducted by distributing questionnaires to people having experience of tourism activities from February 25 to March 20, 2009; then, a sample of 316 copies was used in the study. As considered in design and empirical analysis, the test of hypotheses about effects of participation in tourism activities on leisure satisfaction, leisure identity, and wellness activities indicated that the model in this study was suitable. The results of this study can be summarized as follows:
First, participation in tourism activities had positive effects on leisure satisfaction. That is, tourism activities affected sub-factors of leisure satisfaction, such as high-quality time, important time, stress reduction, pride obtained from leisure activities, acquisition of new knowledge, exchange with others, stress and tension reduction, health care, and cleanness of leisure space.
Second, participation in tourism activities had positive effects on leisure identity. That is, participation in tourism activities had positive effects on sub-factors of leisure identity, such as self-respect and attachment, and tourist assessment.
Third, leisure satisfaction had positive effects on questions about the sub-factor of leisure identity, respect and attachment, such as special meanings, thinking about tourism even during a non-tourism period, going on with tourism activities is important to me, I know I like tourism activities, I cannot imagine life without tourism activities, I feel good when asked about tourism activities, I feel bad when asked to quit tourism activities, I'm proud of my tourism activities, I feel friendly toward people enjoying tourism activities, I recommend tourism activities to people around me, and I will do tourism activities rather than anything else, but had no statistically significant effect on questions about tourist assessment, such as there is no bad person who likes tourism activities, I get angry to see people speaking ill of tourism activities, those doing no tourism activities have no knowledge about the value of tourism, I highly evaluate people doing tourism activities, I have little interest in other activities than tourism, and I believe tourism activities are good.
Fourth, leisure satisfaction had positive effects on questions about the sub-factor of wellness activities, physical activities, such as I tend to take exercise systematically, I do muscular exercise at lease twice a week, I concentrate on warming-up and cooling-down, I take exercise more than 30 minutes about three times a week, and I have good physical strength at the level of my age, about mental and intellectual activities, such as I try to live a fruitful life, I find worth and delight in my life, I know what is value and belief, I believe it is helpful to my life, I tend to love my work, family, and society, I tend to make steady efforts for self-development, I tend to be liberal to others' value or belief, and about social activities, such as I volunteer to help others, I find worth in volunteering to help poor neighbors, I give a part of my income to poor neighbors or relevant organizations, I have satisfactory reliability relationship established with others, and I participate in a social event about once a week, but had significant effects on questions about emotional activities, such as I have abilities to cope with ups and downs, or good and bad things, in life, I tend to be liberal to others' advice, I tend to overcome frustration with ease, and I make positive thinking. But leisure satisfaction had no statistically significant effect on emotional activities.
Fifth, leisure identity had positive effects on the sub-factor of wellness activities, emotional and intellectual activities, such as I try to live a fruitful life, I find worth and delight in my life, I know what is value and belief, I believe it is helpful to my life, I tend to love my work, family, and society, I try to make steady efforts for self-development, and I tend to be liberal to others' value or belief, and about social activities, such as I volunteer to help others, I find worth in volunteering to help poor neighbors, I give a part of my income to poor neighbors or relevant organizations, I have satisfactory reliability relationship established with others, I participate in a social event about once a week, and had positive effects on questions about physical activities, such as I tend to take exercise systematically, I do muscular exercise at least twice a week, I concentrate on warming-up and cooling-down, I take exercise more than 30 minutes about three times a week, and I have good physical strength at the level of my age. Meanwhile, it had no effects on questions about emotional activities, such as I have abilities to cope with ups and downs, or good and bad things, in life, I tend to be liberal to others' advice, I tend to overcome frustration with ease, and I make positive thinking. However, the sub-factor of leisure identity, respect and attachment, had no statistically significant effect on physical activities.