The Social Nature of Leisure Involvement

By G. Kyle, Garry Chick. 2002

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Social Psychology

1. Daniel C. Funk
2. G. Kyle
3. W. Hammitt
4. J. Absher
5. N. Chen
6. Ceridwyn King
7. W. Norman
8. L. Jodice

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Daniel C. Funk
2. Girish Prayag
3. Ceridwyn King
4. G. Kyle
5. N. Chen
6. Guy Assaker
7. C. Ryan
8. Kevin Filo

Citations in the corpus

• Effects of place attachment on users’ perceptions of social and environmental conditions in a natural setting (2004, background): “ARTICLE IN PRESS G. Kyle et al. / Journal of Environmental Psychology 24 (2004) 213–225 223 items measuring an individual’s social connections with the activity (McIntyre, 1989; McIntyre & Pigram, 1992; Kyle & Chick, 2002).”
• International Sport Event Participation: Prior Sport Involvement; Destination Image; and Travel Motives (2007, background): “One of the most widely accepted approaches to understand motivation related to recreational hobbies is through the construct of leisure involvement (see Gursoy & Gavcar, 2003; Kyle & Chick, 2002).”
• Serious sport tourism and event travel careers (2011, methodology): “Although a uni-dimensional scale is often used (Zaichkowsky 1985), Kyle and Chick (2002) explained that there is a general consensus that leisure involvement is best conceptualized as a multidimensional construct with the following dimensions being most important: 1: Attraction: perceived…”
• Revisiting the host city: An empirical examination of sport involvement, place attachment, event satisfaction and spectator intentions at the London Olympics (2016, background): “Involvement refers to levels of psychological connection (Funk, Ridinger, & Moorman, 2004), perceptions about personal relevance (Kyle & Chick, 2002) and the degree to which a person is 7 committed to an object, activity, place or experience (Gross & Brown, 2008).”
• Yoga tourism – a catalyst for transformation? (2019, background): “The practice creates space for emotional and social rejuvenation from our busy lives, and therefore, can be classified as a leisure activity (Driver, Brown, and Peterson 1991; Kyle and Chick 2002; Nimrod 2007).”
• The Serious Leisure Perspective and the Experience of Leisure (2017, background): “…extensively researched in relation to consumer behavior and applied to leisure experiences (Havitz&Dimanche, 1990; Jun, Kyle, &Vlachopoulos, 2012; Kyle & Chick, 2002; Lee & Scott, 2009; McIntyre, 1989) but had merited only a footnote in the SLP literature (Stebbins, 2007, p. 23, n. 5) until a…”
• Antecedents of Tourists’ Loyalty to Mauritius (2012, background): “Sufficient evidence exists in the literature to suggest that personal involvement is an antecedent of place attachment (see Hou, Lin, and Morais 2005; Hwang, Lee, and Chen 2005; Kyle et al. 2004). However, not all dimensions of involvement are related to place attachment. For example, Moore and Grae”
• Sport Tourists’ Involvement with a Destination (2013, background): “Involvement reflects the extent to which an individual is dedicated to an activity or product (Kyle & Chick, 2002).”
• A Modified Involvement Scale (2007, methodology): “…several authors have questioned the validity of the various scales’ hypothesized factor structure and have noted the existence of other components that could also be considered aspects of an individual’s involvement profile (Dimanche & Samdahl, 1994; Havitz & Dimanche, 1999; Kyle & Chick, 2002).”
• Cross-Validation of Abbreviated Perceived Residential Environment Quality (PREQ) and Neighborhood Attachment (NA) Indicators (2010, unknown): “…overlapping with other constructs, such as place identity (Proshansky, Fabian, & Kaminoff, 1983; Twigger-Ross & Uzzell, 1996), place dependence (Kyle & Chick, 2002; Stokols & Schumaker, 1981), place belongingness (Korpela, 1989; Milligan, 1998), rootedness (McAndrew, 1998; Relph, 1976), sense…”
• Behavioral Adaptation of Alpine Skiers to Climate Change: Examining Activity Involvement and Place Loyalty (2011, background): “…choices, involvement within social networks has been proven to inspire continued involvement in a particular activity, thus the dimension social bonding is included in order to measure the extent to which involvement is driven by important social ties (Kyle & Chick, 2002; Kyle et al. 2007).”
• Comparing Trail Runners and Mountain Bikers: Motivation, Involvement, Portfolios, and Event-Tourist Careers (2014, methodology): “Although a uni-dimensional involvement scale is sometimes used (from Zaichkowsky, 1985), Kyle and Chick (2002) said there is a general consensus that leisure involvement is best conceptualized as a multidimensional construct with three dimensions being most important: attraction (perceived…”