英文摘要 |
This study aims to understand how the Marathon runners’ participative motivations, leisure benefits, and their senses of happiness are related. The target group of this survey focuses on the participants of the Blessed 2013 Tainan An-Ping at Midsummer Night under Romantic Star Light Marathon and it adopts questionnaire survey to collect relevant information, including Participative Motivation Scale, Leisure Benefits Scale, and Sense of Happiness Scale. The questionnaire survey was conducted by convenience sampling, with 450 formal questionnaires given out, 430 response questionnaires, 401 effective copies by eliminating the incomplete questionnaires, and the effective response rate is 93.3%. The collected data are handled in line with SPSS19.0, which are analyzed based on descriptive statistics, relevant and regression analysis. The results and findings are as follows: 1. Marathon runners’ participative motivations and leisure benefits have significant positive influence. 2. Marathon runners’ participative motivations and their senses of happiness have significant positive influence. 3. Marathon runners’ leisure benefits and their senses of happiness have significant positive influence. According to the study results, it reveals that Marathon runners’ participative motivations and leisure benefits have highly correlation with their sense of happiness. In the other words, Marathon exactly has positive influence on healthy life. As to engaging Marathon exercise has a lot of leisure benefits, we can encourage people to participate in it as often as possible. |