An Examination of Recreationists' Relationships with Activities and Settings

Kyle, Gerard T.; Bricker, Kelly S.; Graefe, Alan R.; Wickham, Thomas D.

doi:10.1080/01490400490432019

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“…In leisure research, involvement and loyalty have been two of the most researched topics (Kyle et al, 2004b;Kyle et al, 2004). Although many authors focusing on leisure research have reported correlations between these two concepts and explained the process by which leisure involvement influences client loyalty, the relationship between these constructs in a professional team sport context remains largely unexplained.…”

Section: The Relationship Among Involvement Psychological Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The vast majority of researchers have approached involvement from a multidimensional perspective and the three-dimension (attraction, centrality and self-expression) model was used mostly in leisure research (Dimanche, Havitz & Howard, 1991;Gahwiler & Havitz, 1998;Kyle et al, 2003, Kyle et al, 2004a, Kyle et al, 2004bKyle et al, 2004;Kyle & Mowen, 2005;McIntyre & Pigram, 1992;Nassis & Theodorakis, 2008). McIntyre and Pigram (1992) argue that the attraction facet is a combination of importance and pleasure.…”

Section: Involvementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this study, involvement was measured with the use of a three-dimensional approach, because the vast majority of researchers have adopted the model that measures involvement as consisting of three dimensions: attraction, centrality and selfexpression (Kyle, Graefe, Manning & Bacon, 2004a, Kyle, Graefe, Manning & Bacon, 2004bKyle, Bricker, Graefe & Wickham, 2004;Kyle & Mowen, 2005).…”

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The Relationship Among Fans’ Involvement, Psychological Commitment, and Loyalty in Professional Team Sports

Tachis¹,

Tzetzis²

2015

IJSMaRT

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Research on consumer behavior in leisure settings has proposed the relationship among involvement, psychological commitment and loyalty. Nonetheless, very little attention has been given to the conceptualization of the relationship among these constructs in a sport spectator context. The present study examined the relationship among involvement, psychological commitment, and two dimensions of loyalty, namely the attitudinal and behavioral loyalty of sport fans. The participants of this study were 800 soccer fans. The confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the multidimensional factor structure of the involvement scale which was developed for leisure participants by Kyle, Graefe, Manning and Bacon (2003). A structural equation modeling examined the proposed relationship model among involvement, commitment and loyalty. It was found that fans' involvement affects psychological commitment. Psychological commitment, in turn, influences attitudinal loyalty, and eventually attitudinal loyalty has direct effects on behavioral loyalty. The findings of the study indicate the mechanism through which sport fans become loyal to their team. It is suggested that sport managers should develop involvement, psychological commitment and attitudinal loyalty through marketing strategies in order to maximize sport fans' behavioral loyalty.

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2015

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“…Bricker and Kerstetter 2000;Vitterso et al 2000;Wickham and Kerstetter 2000;Vorkinn and Riese 2001;Kyle et al 2004;Stedman and Hammer 2006).…”

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Stigma and Attachment: Performance of Identity in an Environmentally Degraded Place

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Burningham

Carter

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Society & Natural Resources

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Research examining the relationship between place and identity shows that the experience of places influences a person's process of identification, through which an emotional bond with the place may be developed. However, the implications of this literature for land restoration remain unexplored. This is partially due to a gap in empirical research that explores the performance of identities in environmentally degraded settings. This paper examines the relationship between identity and place among residents living around five coal ash disposal sites in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The paper develops a qualitative model to understand the emergence of divergent responses towards the pollution and illustrates that in an environmentally degraded setting the bonds between the individuals and the place are not necessarily dislocated; in some cases, these bonds may be even reinforced by the performance of adaptative identities in response to environmental change.

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“…Hammitt, Backlund & Bixler, 2004;Kaltenborn, 1997;Kyle, Bricker, Graefe & Wickham, 2004;Williams, Patterson, Roggenbuck & Watson, 1992) was measured with two items ("I would long for this place if I moved elsewhere", "even continuous visiting here does not feel boring").…”

Section: Scales Used As Independent Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%