Examining Relationships between Leisure Involvement, Psychological Commitment and Loyalty to a Recreation Agency

By Yoshitaka Iwasaki, M. Havitz. 2004

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Serious Leisure Perspective and the Experience of Leisure (2017, background): “For example, there have been proposals for linking involvement with constraints (Lee & Scott, 2009) and with commitment (Iwasaki & Havitz, 2004; Kim, Scott, & Crompton, 1997) and for linking the SLP with specialization (Scott, 2012; Cole & Scott, 1999; Lee & Scott, 2013; Lyu & Oh, 2015; Tsaur &…”
Physically Active Leisure and Tourism Connection: Leisure Involvement and Choice of Tourism Activities Among Paddlers (2011, background): “…of interest, participation, self-concept, and behavioral manifestations in a range of leisure activities from bird watching (Kim et al., 1997), golfing (Dimanche, Havitz, & Howard, 1991), paddling (Bricker & Kerstetter, 2000), to fitness activities (Gahwiler & Havitz, 1998; Iwasaki & Havitz, 2004).”
Investigating wellness tourists’ motivation, engagement, and loyalty: in search of the missing link (2017, background): “Iwasaki and Havitz (2004) further addressed the fact that the strength of motivation influences the intensity of a person’s attitude with regard to engaging in a specific activity.”
Reexamining the Dimensionality of Brand Loyalty: A Case of the Cruise Industry (2008, background): “Nevertheless, brand loyalty research has been consistently criticized for lacking theoretical grounding and conceptual depth (Dimanche & Havitz, 1994; Iwasaki & Havitz, 2004; Jacoby & Chestnut, 1978; Oliver, 1999; Pritchard, Havitz, & Howard, 1999).”
Testing a Hierarchy of Effects Model of Sponsorship Effectiveness (2012, background): “Keller (2003) proposed three dimensions of brand associations: attributes, benefits and attitudes.”
The Impact of Flow and Communitas on Enduring Involvement in Extended Service Encounters (2008, background): “Enduring involvement is an important marketing construct because of its direct and indirect effects on behavioral loyalty, including the duration, frequency, and intensity of play (Iwasaki and Havitz 1998, 2004).”
Predicting behavioral loyalty through corporate social responsibility: The mediating role of involvement and commitment (2017, positive): “Their subsequent work tested the model using data from customers of recreation service agencies, confirming that commitment mediated the relationship between involvement and behavioral loyalty (Iwasaki & Havitz, 2004).”
Empirical study of destination loyalty and its antecedent: the perspective of place attachment (2011, result): “…towards a special setting, place dependence, place identity as well as behavioural intention share strong similarities with cognitive, affective, and conative components of attitude, respectively, in our present model is confirmed by our data (Iwasaki & Havitz, 2004; Pritchard et al., 1999).”
International Sport Event Participation: Prior Sport Involvement; Destination Image; and Travel Motives (2007, background): “…been studied in a number of different countries, for example, within the contexts of recreational sport participation in Greece (Carroll & Alexandris, 1997), physical activity in South Korea (Cho, 2004) and loyalty of Canadian fitness facility users to recreation agencies (Iwasaki & Havitz, 2004).”
Marathons for the Masses: Exploring the Role of Negotiation-Efficacy and Involvement on Running Commitment (2012, methodology): “Iwasaki and Havitz (2004) found that psychological commitment served as a mediator between involvement and behavioral loyalty; however, the role of negotiation-efficacy in this process has not been explored.”
Behavioral Adaptation of Alpine Skiers to Climate Change: Examining Activity Involvement and Place Loyalty (2011, background): “…activity also tend to report strong levels of psychological commitment and loyalty to a favored service provider or place (Gahwiler & Havitz, 1998; Iwasaki & Havitz, 2004); although this was not true for all markets in Gahwiler’s research, as they identified one group which was loyal to activity…”