Social and Attitudinal Variants In High and Low Use of Outdoor Recreational Facilities

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Group affiliation and attitudes toward leisure and expansion of recreation facilities were important to the level of participation in outdoor recreation, although these variables have not been used extensively in past leisure research. Of the socioeconomic variables frequently researched, income was not significantly related to the level of recreation facilities used by the respondents. Nearly 50 percent of the variance in the use of outdoor-recreation facilities was explained by the combination of eight variables. The importance of some of the less-emphasized variables, relative to the conventional socioeconomic and demographic variables, was greater, although results varied depending on whether the unit of analysis was participation with family or as an individual. This is Journal Paper No. J-7357 of the Iowa Agricultural and Home Economics Experiment Station, Ames, Iowa, Project No. 1809. This project also is financed in part by a grant from the U.S. Department of Interior, Office of Water Resources Institute. Statistical consultant for this paper was Richard D. Warren, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

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