Activities, experiences, and environmental settings: a case study of recreation opportunity spectrum relationships
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ABSTRACT:
One tenet of the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) is that relationships exist between outdoor recreation activity styles, desired psychological experiences, and preferred environmental settings. The purpose of this study is to examine the nature and complexity of these relationships in light of the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum conceptual model with a group of diverse outdoor recreationists. Psychometric measures were utilized to assess the desired experiences and environmental preferences of four activity preference groups. The results indicated that significant relationships do exist between the study variables. However, systematic explanations for these relationships were not clearly apparent from the results of this particular study. The existing theoretical and empirical literature base is inadequate to accurately articulate the systematic linkages between these three concepts. Further development and refinement of these relations will occur only incrementally as a growing empirical base allows for theory construction. Examines the nature and complexity of the relationships between outdoor recreation activity styles, desired psychological experiences, and preferred environmental settings, in light of the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum conceptual model, with a group of diverse outdoor recreationists. Visitors to America Flats Management Area in southwestern Colorado (n=1,609) respond to a mailed questionnaire. Assesses the desired experiences and environmental preferences of four activity preference groups - angling, camping, hiking, and four-wheel driving - using psychometric measures. Results indicate that significant relationships do exist between the study variables. However, systematic explanations for these relationships are not clearly apparent from the results of this particular study. Suggests that the existing theoretical and empirical literature base is inadequate to accurately articulate the systematic linkages between the three concepts.
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