The Effects of Recreation Benefits and Quality of Life on Life Satisfaction

• Main Authors: Ching-Yi Wang, 王青怡
• Other Authors: 李介祿
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99438113541184047747

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 森林學系所 === 99 === Recreation research has evolved from the primary levels of activities, settings and motivations to understand what, where and why people participated in recreation. The fourth level, benefits, was attracting more and more interests from recreation scholars. Recreation benefits can contribute to people’s quality of life and further enhance people’s life satisfaction. This study explored the aforementioned relationships in a context of forest recreation. In 2010-2011, the visitors to Huisun National Forest Recreation Area in central Taiwan were surveyed and we obtained a sample of 767 usable visitor data. We used factor analysis, reliability analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis to analyze our data. The factor analysis of recreation benefits result clearly showed three factors which we named health, introspection and learning benefits. The reliability analysis showed that the recreation benefits''s Cronbach α is .94, the quality of life''s Cronbach α is .91, and the life satisfaction''s Cronbach α is .83. The results indicated that the measures demonstrated acceptable Cronbach α values. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that compared to health, introspection and learning benefits, health benefits tended to be more important to people’s life satisfaction. Furthermore, we found quality of life tended to have more effects on life satisfaction than those recreation benefits factors. The purposes of this study is to test the relationship among recreation benefits, quality of life and life satisfaction in outdoor recreation area’s visitors. The research implications for forest recreation management are also provided.