PMG458: PARK VISITOR RECREATION BEHAVIOR

About This Course

The utilisation of the social sciences of leisure and recreation in relation to natural resource management will be examined in this course, as well as the human aspects of resource management. In this course, the emphasis is placed on sociological, psychological, and psychological concepts that help to create a modern, multidisciplinary understanding of leisure and recreation. These ideas will be connected to research on natural resource management.

Topics In This Course

1. Effective Practice and Dimensions of Human Behaviour

1.1) Definition of human behaviour

1.2) Four sources of behaviour

2. Leisure Theories and Leisure Behaviour

2.1) Concept of leisure behaviour

2.2) Theories of leisure behaviour

3. Social Psychology

3.1) Understanding Leisure with Social Psychology

3.2) Factors affecting leisure behaviour

4. Personality and Leisure

4.1) Focus on factors that cause individuals to behave and react to situations

4.2) Theory personality

5. Leisure Satisfaction and Motivation

5.1) Life Satisfaction

5.2) Theory of Motivation

5.3) Leisure Motives and Constraints