Investigating the leisure behavior of Iranians: the structural model of serious leisure, recreation specialization and place attachment

Heidari, Kolsoum; Heydarinejad, S.; Saffari, Marjan; Khatibi, Amin

doi:10.1080/19407963.2019.1694030

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“…Past experience, economic commitment and centrality to lifestyle Birder specialization differences in conservation involvement, demographics, and motivations (Hvenegaard, 2002). Investigating the leisure behavior of Iranians: the structural model of serious leisure, recreation specialization and place attachment (Heidari et al , 2019). Affective, cognitive and behavioral/five-point Likert scale Relative importance of factors involved in choosing a regional ski destination: Influence of consumption situation and recreation specialization (Won et al , 2008).…”

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Recreational scuba diving as a special form of tourism: lessons from Taiwan

Dai

Huang

Chen

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Purpose Recreational scuba diving is one of the fastest growing tourism industries around the world and has become a popular activity in Taiwan. Few studies focus on enduring involvement with a high risk or difficult activity specialization, so this study aims to explore the causal relationship between enduring involvement and specialization and seeks to explain sustained involvement in scuba diving activity as a recreation specialization. Design/methodology/approach This research selects four diving sites in Taiwan as survey locations, specifically Yeliou, Longdong, Kenting and Green Island. The questionnaire consists of three sections, including demographic information, enduring involvement and specialization. By analyzing the data collected from 810 scuba divers in Taiwan, structural equation modeling is used to examine the causal relationships among the variables. Findings The primary findings of this study are as follows: attraction positively affects divers’ commitment and lifestyle through joy, relaxation and sharing diving experiences; the results indicate that self-expression is associated with past experience of participating in scuba diving activity; and centrality indicates that participants’ daily life and recreation are related to each other and become central to their life. Results show that most theoretical hypotheses are supported, but there is no significant evidence of attraction impacting past experience or self-expression influencing commitment and lifestyle. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to examine the causal influence of enduring involvement and specialization in the scuba diving context. The findings provide a solid theoretical basis for the study of sustained involvement motivation and behavior on specialization. Implications and recommendations for future research are discussed.

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Recreational scuba diving as a special form of tourism: lessons from Taiwan

Dai

Huang

Chen

et al. 2021

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“…As a progressive debate, we note several authors who have provided models of serious leisure stratification from its inception with Stebbins (2007) and the adoption of Unruh's (1980) classification of participants in social worlds -'strangers ', 'tourists', 'regulars' and 'insiders'. Building on recent conversations and acknowledging increases in online socialisation, we return to Stebbins (2017), who finds leisure behaviour increasingly complex and multidimensional. Kofan & Ewert (2019) have reinvigorated debates around the motivations of serious leisure participants, whilst Heidari, Heydarinejad, Saffari & Khatibi (2019) have investigated leisure behaviour as a structural model of serious leisure and place attachment.…”

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Tacit hierarchising in online communities of hillwalkers

Brown

Wilson

2021

Tourism Dynamics

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This research explores how Munro-baggers – hillwalkers aiming to climb all 282 Scottish mountains over 3,000ft – hierarchise themselves and others as serious leisure participants. This increasingly popular hobby contributes to Scotland’s economy and profile, but its sparse literature insufficiently analyses the influence of Stebbins’ Serious Leisure Perspective (SLP), the recent reappraisal of Serious Leisure or the influence of online communities. Therefore, we critically revisit the SLP to re-evaluate Munro-bagging. Through phenomenological interviews, we explore how Munro-baggers hierarchise each other, tacitly and otherwise, offline and online, through their activities’ perceived characteristics. Ambiguities and overlaps are explored and the interplay of contexts analysed. We identify factors influencing Munro-baggers’ perceptions of seriousness amongst fellow hobbyists, taxonomising participants by their perceived characteristics of seriousness. Findings suggest that they draw upon quantitative and qualitative judgments of hobby-relevant activities and qualitative judgments of certain ad hominem characteristics. The expansion of the pastime beyond its temporospatial boundaries into online spaces is found to influence the extent to which actors categorise or hierarchise each other and the characteristics used to do so.

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“…Elsewhere, most studies have primarily focussed on homogenous locales (e.g. Cheung and Hui 2018 on attitudes toward heritage forest conservation in China,; Heidari et al (2019), on leisure activities in Iran) or treated environmental attitudes and place attachment in isolation (e.g. Baierl, Johnson, and Bogne 2021;Daryanto and Song 2021), and not holistically, as in the present study.…”

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Spatio-temporal patterns and changes in environmental attitudes and place attachment in Gauteng, South Africa

Dlamini

Tesfamichael

Breetzke

et al. 2021

Geo-spatial Information Science

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In this study, we employed a number of geospatial techniques to examine the spatiotemporal patterns and changes of environmental attitudes and place attachment values in the Gauteng province of South Africa. The data were obtained from the Gauteng City Region Observatory's Quality of Life Survey collected at three separate points in time, namely 2013, 2015, and 2017. Results indicated that wards (smallest administrative and analysis units) located on the urban periphery of Gauteng, which are generally less affluent, largely held more negative environmental attitudes and place attachment values during the three time periods. In contrast, centrally located wards, which are generally more affluent, expressed more positive environmental attitudes but less place attachment values, especially in 2017. The findings of this research not only highlight the complex spatio-temporal distribution of environmental attitudes and place attachment values throughout Gauteng but also emphasize the need for spatially targeted state interventions for future environmental planning within the province.

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Investigating the leisure behavior of Iranians: the structural model of serious leisure, recreation specialization and place attachment

Cited by 17 publications

References 41 publications

Recreational scuba diving as a special form of tourism: lessons from Taiwan

Recreational scuba diving as a special form of tourism: lessons from Taiwan

Tacit hierarchising in online communities of hillwalkers

Spatio-temporal patterns and changes in environmental attitudes and place attachment in Gauteng, South Africa

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