A Study of Recreational Sport Cyclists’ Recreation Involvement to their Risk Perceptions and Place Attachments

• Main Authors: LIN, SHIH-CHIEH, 林世杰
• Other Authors: YEH, KONG-TING
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7f8p25

碩士 === 國立體育大學 === 國際體育事務碩士學位學程 === 106 === In recent years, under the change of concept and social atmosphere, domestic Taiwanese people have paid more attention to recreational sports to the improvement of the quality of their living environment. From environmental protection, recreational travel, sports and fitness, to even challenging selves, bicycles are closely integrated with people's lives, which has made bicycles no longer just a kind of transportation but a recreational tool. The purposes of this research are to explore the relationship within recreation involvement, risk perceptions and place attachments of bicycle recreational sports participants. The subjects of the survey are the participants of regional cycling events held in Taiwan. The questionnaire survey was conducted by means of convenient sampling, and issued in 2018 Wugu Guanyinshan Iron Horse Conference held in Wugu District in New Taipei City. A total of 400 questionnaires were distributed, and 375 valid questionnaires were collected. The results of this research indicated that the majority of demographic variables of the subjects were males, 40-49 years old, married, and university (college) educated. The majority of cycling experience was 6-10 hours per week, 21-50 kilometers per year, average 2-4 times of activities per year, and the average annual activity cost is less than 2,000 NT dollars. For subjects’ recreation involvement, there were significant differences in terms of gender, disposable income, weekly average cycling time, and average number of activities participation per year; for risk perceptions, there was a significant difference only in terms of gender and average cycling distance; for place attachments, there were significant differences in terms of gender, education level, weekly average cycling hours, and the number of participations in the activity area. Recreation involvement has low negative correlation with risk perceptions, and recreation involvement has significant predictive power for risk perceptions; recreation involvement is moderately positive-correlated with place attachments, and recreation involvement has significant predictive power for place attachments. According to the research results, some suggestions were indicated: (1) modifying the participation population structure, through the family participation which adults bring youngers to participate in order to maintain and enhance the overall participation population; (2) establishing the culture of leisure life, grass-rooting the leisure sports into people’s lives and increasing the opportunities and in-depth of recreational involvement through education and policy promotion.