The Social Nature of Leisure Involvement

Kyle, Gerard T.; Chick, Garry

doi:10.1080/00222216.2002.11949980

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“…What transpired from this process was the identification of six characteristics of involvement in an art museum context that demonstrate how members are involved with Tate: 1) Centrality and The 'Risk Importance' and 'Risk Probability' of the CIP were not revealed as important facets of involvement in our study, However, if one examines the leisure literature this is not entirely surprising as the CIP has also been used and adapted in other leisure contexts and risk has been found to be less central to more generic leisure consumption (e.g. Kyle and Chick 2002 (Oldenburg 1999) that renews them both spiritually and creatively. Although Falk and Dierking (1992) identify the physical component as central to the visitor's experience their discussion is limited to the holding power of exhibits and orientation within the museum to address the age old issue of 'museum fatigue' and they approach consumption from a visitor studies' perspective, unaware that their facets signify the involvement construct.…”

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“…This is possibly why there have been calls for more qualitative studies of involvement (e.g. Havitz and Dimanche 1999;Kyle and Chick 2002) to allow 17 for new dimensions of involvement to emerge, for example, Kyle and Chick (1992) who found that 'attraction, sign and centrality' (all components of the CIP profile either original or adapted as discussed earlier) had limited support in a study of campers returning year on year to an agricultural fair. They suggest that centrality in this context is divided into facets including: centrality to lifestyle and social context.…”

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“…Bloch et al 2009;Csipak et al 1995;Kim et al 1997;McIntyre 1989;McIntyre and Pirgrim 1992;Park 1996) but they also have critics who have found them less reliable (e.g. Havitz and Dimanche 1999;Kyle and Chick 2002;Kyle et al 2006). This may be due to the multi-dimensional nature of involvement and researchers trying to adapt scales to a breadth of products, services and leisure situations.…”

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“…Leisure researchers began to explore involvement during the 1990s from both social-psychological and behavioural perspectives and have explored relationships between motivation and enduring involvement (Kyle et al 2006), involvement, commitment and loyalty (Iwasaki and Havitz 1998), involvement and attitudinal loyalty (Park 1996) and involvement and place attachment (Kyle et al 2003;Gross and Brown 2008) across a range of leisure settings (for an overview of earlier research see Kim et al 1997;Kyle and Chick 2002) but to date, involvement has not been explored from a heritage or arts context. Furthermore, Kyle et al (2007) note that most leisure scholarship focuses on either 'enduring' or 'situational' facets of the involvement construct.…”

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Involvement, Tate, and me

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Armstrong

2010

Journal of Marketing Management

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The involvement construct has been explored in relation to products, services and leisure but not in an art museum context. The purpose of this paper is to address this theoretical gap by drawing on the marketing and leisure literature to understand members' consumption of Tate using the involvement construct.Tate, a portfolio of four art museums in the UK has more than 90,000 members that receive a benefits package in return for a membership fee. Data were collected using an interpretive, qualitative approach. 59 face to face semistructured interviews were conducted with Tate Members during spring 2008.The narratives expose the complexity in exploring the involvement construct and the analysis revealed six new involvement characteristics: 1) Centrality and Pleasure; 2) Desire to Learn; 3) Escapism: Spirituality and Creativity; 4) Sense of Belonging and Prestige; 5) Physical; and 6) Drivers of Involvement. These are discussed in the context of previous studies into museum consumption, services and leisure involvement literature. The authors discuss how these findings may be transferred to other settings and the managerial implications for marketers and membership managers are considered.

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“…It is through the concept of social worlds that leisure can be understood for its cohesive function as well as understanding how social relationships support leisure engagement (Kyle and Chick, 2002). Engaging in airplane piloting as a leisure activity allows membership in the social world of aviators.…”

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The personal and social benefits of airplane piloting as a serious leisure activity for women.

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Serious leisure theory (Stebbins, 1992) is used to frame this examination of women's long-term involvement in airplane piloting. Through in-depth, semi-structured telephone and e-mail interviews with women having over 15 years experience as private pilots, this study examines their leading motivations and their personal and social benefits realized through airplane piloting as a leisure activity. Women's participation in amateur airplane piloting displays the six characteristics of serious leisure. In addition to the durable benefits ascribed to serious leisure, the respondents demonstrated several other personal and social benefits. The interview data revealed that women pursue airplane piloting as independent, interdependent, or dependent pilots. I identified independent pilots as the women who were intrinsically motivated to become involved with piloting for selforiented rewards. Interdependent pilots who decided with their significant others to engage in airplane piloting as a shared leisure activity demonstrates internalization of extrinsic motivation. Dependent pilots are women whose partner had already been piloting for years before they are extrinsically motivated to pursue their pilot certificates in order to assist their partners. Using grounded theory analysis and feminist research iv methodology, this study allowed a comparison of benefits realized from airplane piloting as serious leisure based upon women's initial motivations to become pilots. This study of women airplane pilots enabled insight into women's involvement in a male dominated serious leisure that requires a significant investment oftime, effort and money in the acquisition and maintenance of specialized skills.v

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Perceived health benefits of nature‐based tourism: The influences of tourists' involvement, restorative environment and health consciousness

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Wang

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Journal of Tourism Research

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This study examines the influences of tourists' involvement, perceived restorative environments and health consciousness on their perceived physical, mental and social health benefits. The proposed model was empirically tested using a sample of 595 tourists who travelled to mountain sites after the strict lockdown in China. Tourists' perception of a restorative environment mediates the relationship between their involvement and perceived health benefits. Individual health consciousness positively moderates the effect of the restorative environment on perceived health benefits. This research connects tourist involvement, attention restoration theory and the health and wellness outcomes of nature‐based tourism.

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The Social Nature of Leisure Involvement

Cited by 153 publications

References 36 publications

Involvement, Tate, and me

Involvement, Tate, and me

The personal and social benefits of airplane piloting as a serious leisure activity for women.

Perceived health benefits of nature‐based tourism: The influences of tourists' involvement, restorative environment and health consciousness

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