英文摘要 |
Purpose: This research was to construct the effect model of hikers' activity involvement and place attachment. The variances were studied and the cause and effect model discovered was tested according to the method of activity involvement and place attachment. Methods: Questionnaire Survey was adopted as the research method and the questionnaires were collected randomly from the hikers on the trails in Da Ken, Taichung. A total of 475 valid questionnaires were collected. According to the research purposes and in order to test and verify the hypothesis, the Structural Equation Modeling was used to analyze the data. Results: The outcomes are as follows. First, there was remarkable positive influence over the centrality, self expression on the place dependence and identity of the hikers' activity involvement. Second, the place dependence possessed obvious effect over the place identity. Third, the attraction of the activity involvement did not have apparent effect on the place dependence and identity. In addition, the place dependence was an important intermediary variance in the cause and effect model of the activity-involvement-versus-place-attachment. Conclusions: Hiking has become the center of hikers' life and played an important role. Hikers have showed themselves through participation of the hiking activity. The connection to oneself and the feeling of the place was based on the attachment of the place. Therefore the level of the activity involvement contained a great impact on the place attachment. |