Leisure Involvement Revisited: Drive Properties and Paradoxes

Abstract

This paper reviews 52 leisure involvement data sets in the context of 13 propositions developed a decade earlier (Havitz & Dimanche, 1990). The review suggests that five of the propositions have been strongly or moderately supported in subsequent research and eight have received little or no support. Those receiving the most support related to involvement as a mediator of purchases and participation. Most of the remaining eight have been only partially tested. We critique reasons underlying our varying degrees of understanding and identify shortcomings in the existing leisure involvement literature for the purpose of improving future research designs.