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Serious Leisure, Motivation to Volunteer and Subjective Well-Being of Volunteers in Recreational Events

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In this paper, we examined the relationships between motivation to volunteer, serious leisure, and the subjective well-being of volunteers at the 2010 Taipei International Flora Exposition. This study used convenience sampling to recruit a total of 1,094 volunteers. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were conducted for data analysis. The results of this study revealed that serious leisure positively associated with both motivation to volunteer and volunteers’ subjective well-being, while the association between motivation to volunteer and subjective well-being, at a level of 0.5, was not significant. These results suggest that greater attention in future research should be paid to the relationship between motivation to volunteer and volunteers’ subjective well-being, with a focus placed on implications for volunteers’ subjective well-being.

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  1. Institute of Recreation and Sport Management, University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

    Lu-Luan Pi

  2. Department of Sport Management, Aletheia University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Yi-Hsiu Lin

  3. National Taiwan Sport University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    Chen-Yueh Chen

  4. Education Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Jong-Chi Chiu

  5. Concordia University, Mequon, WI, USA

    Yu-Mei Chen

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Table 2 Measurement of volunteer motivation
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Table 3 Measurement of serious leisure
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Table 4 Measurement of subjective well-being
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Pi, LL., Lin, YH., Chen, CY. et al. Serious Leisure, Motivation to Volunteer and Subjective Well-Being of Volunteers in Recreational Events. Soc Indic Res 119, 1485–1494 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-013-0562-x

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