A Study on Involvement Level, Flow Experience and Leisure Benefits of Road Running Participants

• Main Authors: Chun-an Chen, 陳春安
• Other Authors: 楊平安
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49600770795207350676

碩士 === 南台科技大學 === 休閒事業管理系 === 98 === The purpose of this study were: Investigating the road running participants’ basic profile, involvement level, flow experience and leisure benefits ; Investigating the influences among the different background road running participants’ involvement level, flow experience and leisure benefits; Investigating the difference of involvement levels in flow experience and leisure benefits; investigating the relations between the flow experience and leisure benefits of road running participants. By using Random sampling method, all survey samples were collected from the road running participants of 2009 Tainan ancient capital international marathon, 2009 East Rift Valley international super marathon, 2009 Carrefour Taipei national road marathon, and 2009 Taichung jog association the 24th “Road Running Cup”, The total 1880 effective surveys were obtained. The measuring tools of this study consisted involvement level scale, flow experience scale and leisure benefits scale. According to the purpose of this study, Statistics methods including descriptive statistics analysis, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, one-way MANOVA, canonical correlation analysis were utilized to analyze all collected data. The main results were as followings: It was found that different involvement level showed a significant difference to the respondent profile including gender, age, marital status, education degree, occupation, income, way- run vi experience, practice time of running, club join or not , item of participating. There was a significant difference in the flow experience to the respondent profile including gender, age, marital status, education degree, occupation, income, residence, way run experience, practice time of running, join club or not. There was a significant difference in leisure benefits to respondent profile including ages, marital status, education degree, income, residence, way run experience, practice time of running, club join or not, and item of participating. From one way MANOVA, it was showed that flow experience had a significant difference to different involvement level. The involvement level showed a significant difference to leisure benefits. There was a significant positive correlation between flow experience and leisure benefits. In this study, not only the explanations of findings were offered, but some practical applications and suggestions for future studies were provided.