Relationships among Job Pressure, Leisure Involvement of Coffee, and Escapism: A Case of Field Firefighters

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Title:	Relationships among Job Pressure, Leisure Involvement of Coffee, and Escapism: A Case of Field Firefighters
Authors:	LEE, CHIN-SHAN
Contributors:	休閒與遊憩管理學系碩士在職專班
Keywords:	Job pressure;leisure involvement;escapism;field firefighters;coffee leisure
Date:	2017
Issue Date:	2017-09-14
Publisher:	亞洲大學
Abstract:	Field firefighters usually perceive tremendous job pressure which mainly results from engaging in highly dangerous tasks, whole-day standing by and offering services, and overtime working. An increasing number of literature has investigated firefighters’ job pressure, but rare studies examined the impact of job pressure on the adopt of coffee leisure activity. Due to the prevalent trend of coffee leisure activity in Taiwan, this study attempts to discuss whether job pressure is the cause of engaging in coffee leisure activity for firefighters and to confirm whether coffee leisure activity facilities firefighter to obtain escapism leisure benefit. This study treats field firefighters in middle zone of Taiwan as research subjects and analyzes the data using descriptive statistics, factor analysis, and structure equation modeling. An analysis of 235 collected data finds that: First, only anxiety job pressure, rather than time job pressure, is positively related to coffee leisure involvement. In other words, firefighters will have increasing demands on coffee leisure activities when they feel more psychologically negative emotions from works. Second, coffee leisure involvement is positively related to escapism. Accordingly, firefighters can obatain escapism leisure benefit by engaging in coffee leisure activities. Third, given the same level of coffee leisure involvement, resondents who infrequently drink coffee can obtain more escapism leisure benefit than those who get used to drink coffee. This study suggests: First, the management can make firefighters feel escapism by meeting their demands of coffee leisure activities. Second, the management should support and promote coffee leisure activities, which future help firefighters to feel escapism and obtain leisure benefit in a brief time during 24 or 48 working hours. Third, the management can build a coffee climate which encouraging employees to engage in coffee leisure activities for obtaining more leisure benefits.
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