| Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 旅遊事業管理學系碩士班 === 97 === Despite of the enrichment of material life in the modern society, the impoverishment of spiritual content in the daily life grows. One of the solutions applied to reduce the anxiety and the loneness, already found in the ancient time, is the intimate companion by various kinds of animals. To acquire the steady feelings of security and being needed, the behaviors of petting animals grows more and more popular among people in our surroundings. Further, for many pets’ owners, pets are treated more as the members of the family. Because the pets-involving activities are usually regarded as one of the major parts of daily leisure life, the Frisbee-dogs activities grow popular in recent years. The participants, of a considerable percentage, regard this dogs-involving activity as the center of their lives, therefore in their leisure time the successive determination and dedication
would be devoted. From their continuous practices and facing challenges with pets, the spiritual pleasures, satisfactions, self-confidence and self-recognition are obtained as well.
The aim of this study stressed on: (1) the leisure motivation of Frisbee-dogs activities, and (2) the correlations of the successive involvement in Frisbee-dogs activities and the associated satisfaction from the involvements. This study applies a questionnaire-survey, and the data was collected among the Frisbee-dogs participants from the northern, southern and centralern Taiwan. The interviews were carried during the Frisbee-dogs contests or in the practice parks, with the use of Convenient sampling method.In the survey,282 effective questionnaires were obtained.The applied statistics used (1) t-test, (2) the single factor variance analysis and (3)
the correlation analysis, to verify the assumed hypotheses in this study. Some conclusions are given:
1. In the 282 effective questionnaires, the majority of the participants are in the age range of 30-39 years old; More male participants than the female in this activity.
2. For the participants, the leisure motivation, successive involvement and satisfaction vary in accordance with the participation rate and the education levels.
3. High correlations exhibited between leisure motivation and the successive involvement.Same conclusions are shown between leisure motivation and the acquired satisfaction.
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