英文摘要 |
The music with nature soundscapes has become rather popular. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to explore how natural-environment-related activities determine individuals' music preference. Taking factors such as wildlife-and-nature activities, information, group-activities, as well as travelling engagement in natural surroundings into consideration, this study applied McIntire and Pigram (1992) involvement theory and its assessment scale to verify the cause-and-effect relationship between involvement of outdoor activities and the music preference. Based on the references, this study provided a hypothesis. Participants of this research, which was conducted by using Internet questionnaires with au audio attachment, were all Internet users, and 476 snowball samples were collected with those under the age of 30 accounting for 89.4 % of participants. This paper utilized Structure Equation Models to verify the hypothesis. According to the analysis result, it turned out that there is a cause-and-effect relationship between the centrality aspect of activity involvement theory and the music preference, and centrality aspect is with a connotation that life style is associated with wildlife-and-nature activities such as sharing with friends about wildlife-and-nature activities or enjoyment of visiting natural surroundings, etc. |