FAMILY LEISURE IN MACAO
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This study mainly discusses the relationship among leisure motives,leisure benefits, and experience values of Macao local families participating in outdoor leisure activities. The Leisure Motivation Scale was based on a scale suggested by Beard and Ragheb (1983). The Leisure Benefit Scale was based on a scale proposed by Bammel and Burus-Bammel (1982). The experiential value scale used the scale of
Mathwich, Malhotra and Rigdon (1994). This study was a quantitative research and data collection was by means of distributing the questionnaires to Macao families while participating at Macao Food Festival on November 2019. A total of 400 questionnaires were collected and only 380 were valid questionnaires. By using SPSS software to analyze the research data and drew the following conclusions: Firstly, there is a significant relationship between the leisure motivation and leisure benefits of parent-children participating in outdoor leisure activities in Macao; Secondly, there is a significant relationship between the leisure benefits and experiential value of Macao parent-children participating in outdoor leisure activities; Thirdly, there is a significant relationship between leisure motivation and experiential values of activities; In particular, leisure benefits play an mediator role between leisure motivation and experiential values.
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