英文摘要 |
This study developed the benefits, impact, support, and sustainability scales for road race events in Taiwan as well as examined the discriminant, reliability and validity. The study's methodology involved subjects who had participated in the road race events of Penghu Marathon, Taichunh Shupao Cup, Taitung Makino marathon and Tseng Wen Reservoir marathon in Taiwan and included the collection of 925 valid questionnaires. The scales were modified from the literature about road race and leisure participation behavior. The statistical analyses of the study data included item analysis, exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and reliability testing. Firstly, the results revealed that the critical ratio values (6.60-36.43) and total correlation coefficients (r=.58-.96) for each item had statistical significance to reveal scales that exhibited discriminant. Secondly, according to the results, the exploratory factor analyses revealed that the benefits from social, environmental, and economic scales had a total cumulative explained variance of 89.64% respectively. The impact of the social, environmental, and economic scales had a total cumulative explained variance of 77.69% respectively. The support scales had a total cumulative explained variance of 90.69%, the sustainability scales had a total cumulative explained variance of 81.10% and the analyses revealed that all research instruments exhibited validity. Thirdly, the reliability analyses showed that each scale's Cronbach's alpha coefficients were above .89, which suggests that the level of internal consistency was acceptable for each scale. Finally, the results of the confirmatory factor analyses on the benefits, impact, support, and sustainability scales revealed that indices of absolute fit, incremental fit and parsimonious fit were closed or passed for the accepting indices. It indicated that the scale of construction for the study was an acceptable scale. In conclusion, based on the results, the scales demonstrated sound discriminant, validity, and reliability. Moreover, the scales are well suited to the measurement of participant opinion regarding the benefits, impact, support, and sustainability for road race events in Taiwan. |