| Abstract: | Abstract
Recently adventure recreation activities have gained much more attention than ever before. Among all the adventure recreation activities, “survival game” has become more popular; moreover, more civil associations such as, IPSC, CTA and NPSA, have been involved in promoting it. Although there still exits illegal gray zone in this kind of games, government has started to promote the games through these associations.
The study aims to explore participation of adventure recreational games. One Likert’s scale questionnaire, which included personality, recreation involvement and personal background, was employed. It used purposive sampling and surveyed 400 subjects during the period of the end of March 2010 to the end of May 2010. 332 valid samples were collected. The rate of respondent was 83%. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson product-moment correlation analysis.
The conclusions were listed in the following：
1. All factors in the “Personality” and “Recreation involvement” construct are positively correlated. The factor “Extraversion” in “personality” construct is more correlated with “Agreeableness”, “Self expression” and “Centrality of lifestyle” than other “Personality” factors.
2. Different “age”, “marriage”, “educational background”, “occupation” and “income” groups of adventure recreation activity participants have significant differences in “recreation involvement”.
3. Among all “Personality” factors, adventure recreation activity participants are significantly different in their “Age”, “Marriage”, “Educational background” and “income”.
4. Among high “Extraversion” tendency of adventure recreation activity groups, the group labeled as “Above high school, below graduate school” shows high degree of “Recreation involvement”.
5. Among high “Openness to Experience” tendency of adventure recreation activity groups, the group labeled as “below high school, unmarried” shows high degree of “Recreation involvement”. |
