The Relationships among Leisure Involvement, Organizational Commitment and Well-Being: Viewpoints from Sport Fans in Asia

Su-Lan Pan, Homer C. Wu, Alastair M. Morrison, Min-Tzu Huang and Wen-Shiung Huang
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Su-Lan Pan: School of Tourism & Hospitality Management and Institute for Development of Cross-strait Small and Medium Enterprises, Hubei University of Economics, Wuhan 430205, China
Homer C. Wu: Graduate Program of Sustainable Tourism and Recreation Management, National Taichung University of Education, Taichung 40306, Taiwan
Alastair M. Morrison: National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Min-Tzu Huang: Hualien Sun Dance High School, Hualien 97367, Taiwan
Wen-Shiung Huang: Department of Tourism and Leisure Management, Ling Tung University, Taichung 40852, Taiwan

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 3, 1-18

Abstract: Baseball spectating is one of the most popular leisure activities in Asia. Leisure participants with high well-being levels usually demonstrate loyal behavior to the teams they follow. Previous research indicates that professional sport fans are serious leisure participants and their participation has career qualities. The goal of this research was to investigate the relationship of leisure involvement with the well-being of professional sport fans and the possible mediating effect of organizational commitment, a career-related characteristic, on well-being. Some 406 fans of the Brother Elephants Baseball Team in Taiwan were surveyed. The results showed that leisure involvement positively and significantly influenced fans’ well-being and organizational commitment partially mediated the influence of leisure involvement on well-being. This study pioneers the integration of leisure involvement, well-being and organizational commitment in the context of a Professional Baseball League team within Asia. Implications and future research directions are presented.

Keywords: leisure involvement; organizational commitment; serious leisure; professional sport fans; well-being (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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