RECONCEPTUALIZING THE MOTZVE/ENVIRONMENT LTNK IN RECREATION CHOICE BEHAVIOR

ABSTRACT: Effective inventory, management, and planning for recreation resources depend upon know-ing why persons choose certain environments to attain specific goals, and what elements in those environments facilitate goal-attainment. Research focused on relating motives for participation to specific components in the environment has had only limited success. This paper proposes an alternative organization of the motive-behavior/environment relationship intended to improve the predictive power of this line of research. The model is founded on an attempt to separate the process of recreation behavior from the content (i.e., the specific overt manifestations of behavior). The process of recreation behavior is seen as the attempt to attain a desirable state of conscious-ness which is experienced as satisfaction in recreation