Leisure Involvement Revisited: Conceptual Conundrums and Measurement Advances

Abstract

This paper revisits and critiques two propositions originally posited by Havitz and Dimanche (1990) with respect to leisure involvement on the basis of evidence from 50 leisure involvement data sets: (1) Multifaceted scales are more appropriate than single faceted scales for measuring leisure and tourism involvement; and (2) Leisure and touristic experiences should be highly involving on all facets. Despite general support for both propositions, recent research has suggested that leisure involvement is a more complex construct than originally suggested. Much of the complexity stems from the challenges inherent in interpreting multifaceted data.

KEYWORDS:

• Leisure involvement
• social judgement theory
• methodology
• measurement