To Establish the Relationship Model of Enduring Involvement, Benefits of Leisure and Well-being of Hiking Activity

In Taiwan, one in four people has the experience of going hiking. Thus, this study aims to illuminate the importance of hikers’ psychological traits and phenomenon toward the growth of the leisure industry.

Previous hiking related researches on psychological are limited in that they only focus on the study of precedent variables –motivation, cognition, and benefits; seldom discussed the posterior variables. In this regards, this study has proposed posterior psychological variable discussion to investigate the relationship among enduring involvement, benefits of leisure, and well-being of hikers. The findings of this research shows: Enduring involvement is significant and positively related to benefits of leisure and well-being; benefits of leisure are positively related to well-being and also a mediator of enduring involvement and well-being.