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Abstract
In contrast to the substantial body of published leisure research which has investigated differences between users of leisure services, very little published research has focused on differences among discontinuers. Previous investigators have recognized that discontinuers are not a homogeneous group, but little attention has been given to identifying variables which could be used to differentiate meaningful subgroups among discontinuers. Respondents were classified into one of two categories, active or passive, based on their propensity to transmit negative information. Two hypotheses were tested to determine if selected internal and external variables could be used to differentiate between the two groups of discontinuers. Results of the discriminant analysis revealed that variables such as side bets and values were useful for discriminating between active and passive discontinuers of golf and tennis.
