A COMPARISON OF PERCEIVED SELF-IMAGE TO ATTITUDES AND MOTIVATIONS TOWARD LEISURE PARTICIPATION

• Other Authors: REGNA, JOSEPH LOUIS, JR.
• Format: Others
• Subjects: Recreation
• Online Access: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/lib/digcoll/etd/3085701

A review of current literature implied relationships between leisure participation and attitudes, motivations, and self-image. Research related to self-image and--attitudes, motivations, and leisure participation was found to be limited. This study investigated the relationship of an individual's perceived self-image to attitudes and motivations toward leisure participation. === Subjects used in this study consisted of 319 undergraduate college students. A systematic random sample was selected by choosing a minimum of ten classes listed on the official list of class offerings. The first class was selected using a table of random numbers, and every 160th class from that point was selected and numbered accordingly. === Data was collected utilizing a questionnaire consisting of a leisure attitude scale, a leisure motivation scale, a leisure participation scale, and a perceived self-image scale. The attitude scale measured cognitive, affective, and behavioral components of attitudes and the motivation scale measured intensity of motivation and the combination of the intellectual, social, competence-mastery, and stimulus-avoidance components of motivations. Questions relating to personal and demographic information were also included. === Analysis of the data produced significant F ratios for two of the three attitude components: (a) affective--how one feels about leisure and (b) behavioral--how one acts toward leisure. Only the intensity of motivations toward leisure participation was significantly related to an individual's perceived self-image. The combined results of the intellectual, social, competence-mastery, and stimulus-avoidance components of leisure motivations toward leisure participation were not found to be significantly related to an individual's perceived self-image. === Comparison of personal and demographic factors with leisure participation and--perceived self-image, leisure attitudes, and intensity of motivations indicated that participation in leisure activities seemed to be more related to the individual's interpretations and definitions of the leisure experience rather than personal or demographic factors. How one perceived the experience seemed to be most important. === Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-10, Section: A, page: 3159. === Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.