Abstract

This study was to redefine leisure-concept and explore the meaning of leisure experience, through reviewing the various viewpoints on leisure phenomenon. Here, we defined leisure as freely selected activities for obtaining prompt and subjective feelings. Also, we regarded the process of leisure experience as a sequence of motivation, activity experience, and results. We considered leisure motivation as intrinsic motivation caused by basic needs and psychological drive(optimal arousal & relaxation seeking). The positive leisure experience is intrinsic rewards which reinforce intrinsically motivated behaviors. So, a leisure participant feels the feeling of joy or pleasure resulted from combination of cognitive experiences. Leisure result was divided into short-term effect such as intellectual-emotional-physical skill-up and long-term effect such as Quality of Life. In addition, we added reminiscence process in our model. The theoretical implication of our study for leisure phenomenon was discussed in the conclusion.