The relationship between serious leisure, flow experience, leisure benefit and quality of life of Yoga

• Main Authors: Shiao-Chi Hsu, Li-Wei Liu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: AfricaJournals 2019-11-01
• Series: African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure
• Subjects: partial least squares; multi-group analysis; pls-sem; yoga
• Online Access: https://www.ajhtl.com/uploads/7/1/6/3/7163688/article_7_se_gbcss_2019.pdf

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between serious leisure, flow experience, leisure benefit and quality of life of yoga, and by adopting PLS-MGA to compare the differences in the overall pattern of different types of yoga. A questionnaire survey was conducted by using a cluster sampling method. Five types of yoga, including Hatha Yoga, Astangar Yoga, Bikram Yoga, Fitness Yoga, and Yogalates, were studied. The subjects of this study, from whom 276 valid questionnaires were collected, were participants who had more than one-year experience of yoga. The effective rate was 93%. Statistical methods such as descriptive statistics, PLS and PLS-MGA were used for analysis. The results of the PLS-SEM study showed that: (1) The serious leisure aspect of the yoga positively influences the flow experience and leisure benefits, but had no significant effect on the quality of life; (2) The flow experience positively influenced leisure benefits and quality of life; (3) The leisure benefits of yoga positively affected the quality of life; (4) The serious leisure of yoga had no indirect effects on the quality of life through the experience of flow and leisure benefits. The results of the PLS-MGA study showed that there were differences in the overall pattern of different types of yoga.