Factor Structure of Leisure Behavior for High School Age Youth in Three Communities

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Abstract
The recreation activity preferences for high school age youth in three Midwest cities were factor analyzed and resulting structures compared. For each city, four stable factors were derived. These were labelled Sports, Outdoor-Nature, Adolescent-Social, Aesthetic-Sophisticate. The factor pattern was compared to the patterns derived by Bishop (1970) from similar data for adults in the same cities. While adult data yielded only three factors, two of these seemed similar to the Outdoor-Nature and Aesthetic-Sophisticate factors in the youth data. The differences in the remaining factors were discussed in terms of the differing roles that activities may fill in satisfying need states for the two groups.

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