The Influence of Motivation, Attitudes and Obstacles for Middle School Students' Participation in Leisure Activities on Their Leisure Satisfaction in Southwest China.

Yunlan Wu,Yuanqiu Peng,Falu Fan,Jianan Sun,Xia Wang

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.758858

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https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.758858

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Purpose: To explore the relationship among leisure motivation, barriers, attitude and satisfaction of middle school students in Chengdu, Sichuan, to help students establish a positive leisure attitude and provide a reference for youth leisure counseling.Methods: Based on consulting research literature, this paper designs a survey volume of teenagers’ leisure motivation, barriers, attitude, and satisfaction; 2249 valid questionnaires of middle school students in Chengdu were obtained by stratified random sampling. The data were statistically processed by the combination of exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA).Results: (1) There are significant positive correlation effects between leisure motivation and leisure attitude, leisure attitude and leisure satisfaction, and leisure motivation and leisure satisfaction; (2) There is a low degree of positive correlation effect (r = 0.35 *) between leisure barriers and leisure motivation, which is contrary to common sense and needs to be further studied in the follow-up; (3) Leisure barriers has no significant direct impact on leisure satisfaction, but it can have a significant negative impact on leisure satisfaction with the intermediary variable of leisure attitude; (4) Leisure motivation is the most important variable in the whole leisure model structure. It not only has the greatest direct impact on leisure satisfaction but also has a great positive impact on leisure satisfaction through the intermediary of leisure attitude.Conclusion: Adolescent leisure motivation, barriers, attitude, and satisfaction are complementary and interdependent. Among them, leisure motivation is the core variable and leisure attitude is the dual intermediary variable. Through the initiation of leisure motivation, helping adolescents establish a positive leisure attitude may be the key to ensure their leisure satisfaction.

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Leisure life is the product of national economic growth and the change of social industrial structure
It can be considered that leisure attitude affects leisure barriers through leisure cognition, behavior, and emotion in its variable group, while the variables highly related to leisure barriers are internal barriers and structural barriers, and the corresponding loads are −0.68 and −0.87 in turn; From the positive and negative signs of factor load, the relationship between the two is reversed
The second group of canonical correlation reflects the relationship between leisure barriers and leisure motivation

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Leisure life is the product of national economic growth and the change of social industrial structure. Teenagers are the most energetic population in society It is a critical period of personality development and life adaptation and a stage with the greatest impact of physiological and psychological changes. Research Report from sports, leisure, and entertainment educators: 11–16 years old is the most important stage to complete the socialization process of teenagers. If collective leisure and entertainment activities can be arranged at this stage, it is very important to train teenagers’ cooperation ability and team spirit. Leisure projects such as orienteering, multi-person rowing, and sailing are the best choice for this age group (Weybright et al, 2016; Song, 2017; Florian and Jörg, 2018)

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