Abstract
The aim of this work was to examine the factorial validity of the «leisure constraints scale» by Alexandris and Carroll (1997a) and the investigation of the relationship between the constraining factors of attendance and the participants’ loyalty to leisure dancing activities. The sample of the study was 318 adults who participated in traditional dancing classes organized by cultural associations. The «leisure constraint scale» (Alexandris & Carroll, 1997a) and a conversion of the «loyalty» subscale was used for the investigation of the constraining factors and loyalty as suggested by Zeithaml, Berry and Parasuraman (1996). The data supported the factor structure and the internal consistency of the leisure constraints scale. It was also found that there is a reverse relation of loyalty with five factors of the leisure constraints scale. Generally, it appears that the participants experience the constraining factors of attendance to dancing activities with low intensity.
Highlights
One of the recreational activities, which meet with significant success in Greece, is traditional dancing
Skeweness values ranged from -.21 to 1.93 and item kurtosis ranged from -1.27 to 2.55 for the Leisure Constraints items and Mardia’s coefficient of multivariate kurtosis was 178.57
The present study examined the factorial validity of the «leisure constraints scale» by Alexandris and Carroll (1997a), in the field of traditional dancing via the confirmatory factor analysis
Summary
One of the recreational activities, which meet with significant success in Greece, is traditional dancing. Attendance to dancing activities pertains to the individual’s need for entertainment, social association, physical fitness, artistic work, and to his cultural substratum. The interested parties attend the specific activity through hundreds of cultural associations, municipal organizations, “Centres for Open Protection of the Elderly’’ and private dancing academies. The number of adults who participate in dancing activities has been constantly increasing in recent years. Adults with different dancing experience, educational level and age environ the dancing activities (Filippou, Goulimaris, Baxevanos & Genti, 2010) and improve their quality of life (Zisi,Gianni, Bougiesi,Pollatou & Mihalopoulou, 2014).
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