Motivations for Activity Participation as Predictors of Emerging Adults' Psychological Engagement in Leisure Activities

ABSTRACT

Psychological engagement has been identified as a critical factor in the potential benefits of emerging adults. leisure activity participation. Emerging adults. motivations for participation might be particularly important in predicting psychological engagement. In the present work, we report findings from a study of motivations for leisure participation and its associations with psychological engagement. In a sample of 183 undergraduate university students, we found that three of the five hypothesized motivators positively and significantly predicted greater psychological engagement. Specifically, greater psychological engagement was related to leisure participation motivated by a desire to learn and exercise skills and abilities, protect the self (for example, to alleviate guilt by helping others), and because of opportunities presented by others. favorable attitudes towards involvement.

KEYWORDS:

• Activity Engagement<Leisure
• Leisure Motives<Leisure
• Youth Leisure<Family/Life Cycle

Notes

1 Further, even with the inclusion of the three residual covariances noted in the main text for the second-order conceptualization of the psychological engagement model, the one-factor model still did not provide strong fit (χ² = 70.22, df = 11, p <.001, CFI =.91, RMSEA =.17).