Leisure Satisfaction Effect According to Enthusiast Tendency of Marine Leisure Sports Participants

Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of leisure satisfaction according to the enthusiast tendency of marine leisure sports participants and, based on the findings review the results of participants in marine leisure sports. This study used a convenience sampling method in the nonprobability sampling method. The survey was performed with the questionnaire, and respondents were asked to fill it out. To this end, excluding copies of the questionnaire which were not sincerely filled out, this research used 293 participant survey copies for the final analysis. To examine relations among variables, this research performed a complete correlation analysis, and to examine causal relations among variables, it performed a review of the multiple regression analysis. The results of the study are as follows. First, the correlation between enthusiast tendency and leisure satisfaction of marine leisure sports participants showed a statistically significant positive correlation in all sub-variables. Second, as a result of examining the effect of leisure satisfaction according to enthusiast tendency of marine leisure sports participants, cognitive tendency, emotional tendency, and behavioral tendency, which are subvariables of enthusiast tendency, the results showed the positive effects on psychological satisfaction, education satisfaction, social satisfaction, physical satisfaction, and environmental satisfaction. These conclusions show that the marine leisure sports enthusiasts who do their best in their daily lives and use their spare time to overcome and master their limits, are therefore satisfied with the leisure experiences or situations that they experience. In other words, enthusiasts who enjoy marine leisure sports, regardless of their tendency, feel a sense of positive satisfaction with their leisure activities, and as a result, it can be concluded that their quality of life as well as a healthy happiness feeling are accompanied.