Abstract
Effective inventory, management, and planning for recreation resources depend upon knowing why persons choose certain environments to attain specific goals, and what elements in those environments facilitate goal-attainment. Research focused on relating motives for participation to specific components in the environment has had only limited success. This paper proposes an alternative organization of the motive-behavior/environment relationship intended to improve the predictive power of this line of research. The model is founded on an attempt to separate the process of recreation behavior from the content (i.e., the specific overt manifestations of behavior). The process of recreation behavior is seen as the attempt to attain a desirable state of consciousness which is experienced as satisfaction in recreation.
Parent Publication
Keywords
recreation choice behavior,
motive/environment,
model
Citation
Schreyer, Richard; Knopf, Richard C.; Williams, Daniel R. 1985. Reconceptualizing the motive/environment link in recreation choice behavior. In: Stankey, George H.; McCool, Stephen F., compilers. Proceedings--symposium on recreation choice behavior; 1984 March 22-23; Missoula, MT. General Technical Report INT-184. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station. p. 9-18
