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The Conceptive of Risk of Outdoor Adventure Activities Influence on an Individual’s Self-Confidence
(International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Abeykoon, A.M.S.J.P.; Rajapaksha, R.P.D.D.
The risk when engaging with adventure activities could affect differently on the physical and mental wellbeing of a person. There are two types of adventure ‘soft adventure and hard adventure (Hudson, 2003) so it includes hard and soft risk. Humans are believed to comprehend risk through two fundamental mechanisms, an ‘‘analytic’’ system and an ‘‘experiential’ ’system (P.Solvic,M.L.Finucane,E.Peters, D.G.MacGregor, 2004). Hence, this research study focuses on the conceptive of risk of outdoor adventure activities' influence on an individual’s Self-confidence. Researchers are found that adventure risk impacts mind and health. But according to the literature review, there is no conceptualization. Also, in the Sri Lankan context, much research has been done on adventure activities and adventure locations. But there is a paucity of research on outdoor adventure risk. Therefore, there is a lack in the knowledge domain in terms of conceptualization and construct development for further empirical studies in the field. The field of outdoor adventure management has not developed empirical tools to measure the impact of outdoor adventure risk on an individual’s Self-confidence with a particular concern in the Sri Lankan context. Therefore, this research study fills the gap in terms of the measurement of outdoor adventure risk impact on an individual’s Self-confidence. A qualitative approach has been adopted with thematic analysis methods to answer the research question along with the main objective. The PRISMA methodology coded the content of each of the 35 journal articles based on the themes to identify the latent idea of the phenomenon. Content and construct validity methods were used to confirm the items related to the factors. It was 10 items that were above the value of the content validity of individual items (I-CVI) than 0.8 out of 7 items originally developed. Only 7 items were agreed by raters which were at a level of 1 in terms of I-CVI. Any researchers who have an interest in the field of outdoor adventure can use the conceptualized model which has 8 factors to measure the risk of outdoor adventure activities influence on an individual’s Self-confidence with empirical validation.
The Conceptualization of “Escape” as a Benefit of Recreational Consumption
(2018) Abeykoon, A.M.S.J.P.; Ramanayaka, A.R.N.D.; Senanayaka, R.M.C.A.
This research focuses to conceptualize “escape” as an of recreation consumption. Recreation provides range of benefits. Visitors have their expected level of benefit based the perceived benefit of consumption. As literature shown in the fields of study, visitors expect more “escape” especially when they visit outdoor recreation places. On the other hand, green concept of the natural environment gets more public attention. Management in the field of outdoor recreation has no empirical tools were developed to measure the visiting benefits like “escape” especially in Sri Lankan context. The qualitative approach has been done with thematic analysis to answer the research question. The content of each selected 20 journal articles were coded based on the themes to identify the latent idea of the phenomenon. The analysis of this research revealed the conceptualization of “escape” as a benefit of recreational consumption. These findings reveal that several factors influence for escape. According to that the most influential factors are autonomy, enjoying nature, introspection, social escape and physical escape. Apart from that the factors like self-expression, intellectuality, novelty, reducing tension, sensual enjoyment, cognitive stimulation and relaxation also could be affected. Finally, the paper concludes with suggestion for further research. Accordingly, Escape is a recreation benefit. It is a symptom of psychological pleasure. This can be used to measure SEAPI scale. But this scale is not measured. Accordingly, this research suggests that further How to measure “escape” as a benefit and what are the outdoor recreation consumption index
The Impact by Environmental Features of the Recreation Parks on the Continues Participation
(International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019) Rajapaksha, R.P.D.D.; Abeykoon, A.M.S.J.P.
During the past few decades, the role of sport and physical education in health and vitality has been the focus of the attention of sports scientists. Research has shown that recreational activity is effective for the health and well-being of society. Therefore, they have not forgotten to pay attention to spend their leisure time in parks. Thus, it is important to point out that the human and social-centric conditions motivate the individual to engage in recreational activity and, on the other hand, the natural or designed environment on which the relevant functions are based is acting as the pull factors. The key objective of this study was to identify how environmental features impact on the tendency for continues participation. It was intended to collect Primary data. Convenient sample method was used to collect data from 200 people who arrived to the “Diyatha Uyana”. The questionnaire covered the 03 main aspects of environmental features called Greenspace, Landscape & River Trails. “The tendency to continue participation” was the dependent variable of this study, which was measured by the number of arriving by the beneficiaries from January to September of 2019. An analysis was done using the descriptive and inferential statistics method such as Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Estimated relationship in SPSS- AMOS 21 and SPSS statistic version 21. The analysis showed that River trails (P=.064) and Landscape (P=.010) variables were statistically significant at 0.5 levels. In addition, among the identified variables the impact of the landscape has most regression weights reported as .134. Which can make an impact on the beneficiaries’ tendency to participate in the “Diyatha Uyana”. It means that when landscape increase by one standard deviation, the tendency to participate goes up by 0.134 standard deviations. Moreover, this result indicates that, landscapes and River trails variables have a comparatively higher association with beneficiaries' participation in “Diyatha Uyana” than green space.