A Research Of City Inhabitants' Leisure Motivation And Leisure Satisfaction And The Relationship Between Them

By the advent of leisure time and the enrich of leisure activities, people started to recognize the important role of leisure in daily life. Also, the enthusiasm of people's leisure participation ran high. But it is still not clearly cognition the reason for people's leisure motivation and the feeling gained from leisure experience.The purpose of this study was to discuss the current situation and the relationship between leisure motivation and leisure satisfaction by empirical survey. The subjects of this study were 550 inhabitants in ChangSha. Based on the review of the relevant theory and research, using Leisure Motivation Scale and Leisure Satisfaction Scale from four dimensions of motivation including intellectual, social, competence-mastery, stimulus-avoidance and six dimensions of satisfaction including psychological, educational, social, relaxational, physiological, aesthetic, this thesis investigated and analyzed peoples' leisure motivation and leisure satisfaction.The result indicated that the inhabitants at ChangSha perceived an upper level on leisure motivation, and the average was 3.83.They perceived an upper level on leisure satisfaction, and the average was 3.78. It had significant differences in leisure motivation on different background such as sex, age, education level, career, incomes except marriage condition; it had significant differences in leisure satisfaction on different background such as sex, age, marriage condition education level, career, incomes; it had significant linear correlation between leisure motivation and leisure satisfaction. Lastly, based on the results of this research analysis, some suggestions are offered as followed: Strengthen the construction of public leisure facilities, improve the overall leisure quality of city. Develop leisure products and leisure market to meet market demand. Develop leisure education, bring up more major leisure education talents. Strengthen the study of leisure skills to enhance leisure tastes.