A Study of Relationship among Serious Leisure Characteristics, Leisure Involvement and Flow Experience of the Regimen and Leisure of Wai Tan Kung

• Main Authors: PAN, CHIH-MAO, 潘志茂
• Other Authors: LIN, CHIN-TING
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62271155570691251211

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 觀光事業學系觀光休閒事業管理碩士在職專班 === 104 === Taiwan has been facing aging population in recent years, the elder’s “Health Care” is a must issue to confront with. While “Exercise” can effectively slow down human beings’ aging speed, decrease suffering from illness, and help reduce anxiety, relieve living pressure, increase happiness as well as improve the quality of life in psychological field. Yet, the aged people’s physiology and the elder’s aging body cannot fit those high-intensity sports in the western society. Therefore, a sport - the oriental treatment of body and mind from the viewpoint of maintaining good health, is naturally more suitable for the senior with ages. Wai Tan Kung is one kind of sports of qigong regimen, using qi to strengthen both body and mind to be healthy, i.e. to cultivate one’s own qi to circulate internally, to advance qi and blood’s circulation, to increase the vigor, so as to get healthy body and get rid of illness. However, Wai Tan Kung is an abstruse and profound sport, only through attendants’ practice continuously to have higher realm of comprehension. This study is through theoretical investigation of serious leisure characteristic, leisure involvement and flow experience to realize how to have the regimen and leisure of Wai Tan Kung keep participating in this activity consistently. The existing document indicated those participants’ serious leisure characteristics, leisure involvement and flow experience having certain level of correlation to each other. Thus, the regimen and leisure of Wai Tan Kung is set as a target in this study to carry out researches of serious leisure characteristic, leisure involvement and flow experience. This study is made by means of descriptive statistics analysis, factor analysis, related analysis and path analysis, etc. and the result shows those participants of Wai Tan Kung regimen carrying the characteristics of taking leisure activity seriously. One more important finding is the emergence of flow experience from those earnest participants of Wai Tan Kung regimen must via “Activities of leisure involvement” to proceed transformation, in order to have those participants keep attending the activity continuously.