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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Sport Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1546405
This article is part of the Research Topic Multidisciplinary Aspects and Performance in Racket Sports-Volume III View all articles
Re-Participation Intention in Individuals Playing Tennis for Recreational Purposes: Investigation of Differences Based on Low and High Involvement
Provisionally accepted
Omur Fatih Karakullukcu 1
Cihan Ayhan 2*
Tugcenur Kalkan 3
Bilal Okudan 4
Laurentiu-Gabriel Talaghir 5*
Iconomescu Teodora Mihaela 5- 1 Ministry of National Education, Ankara, Ankara, Türkiye
- 2 Department of Recreation, Faculty of Sports Science, Sakarya University of Applied Scienc, Sakarya, Sakarya, Türkiye
- 3 Graduate Education Institute, Sakarya University of Applied Sciences, Sakarya, Türkiye
- 4 Free Researcher, Ankara, Türkiye
- 5 Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Dunarea de Jos University, Galați, Romania
This study examined how the level of involvement influences the re-participation intentions of recreational tennis players. To measure the participants' leisure involvement levels; the leisure involvement scale, developed by Kyle et al. (2007) and adapted to the Turkish language by Gürbüz, Çimen, and Aydın (2018) was used. The behavioral intentions scale developed by Zeithaml, Berry, and Parasuraman (1996) was used to measure participants' re-participation intentions. The research group consists of a total of 327 volunteer individuals, 172 males (52.6%) and 155 females (47.4%), selected by convenience sampling method among individuals who play tennis for recreational purposes. The normality test of the data obtained was tested by checking the skewness-kurtosis values and it was determined that the data showed normal distribution. In this context, in addition to descriptive statistics, Hierarchical-Non-Hierarchical Clustering Analysis, and Univariate analyses were used in the analysis of the data. According to the research findings, it was determined that there was a statistically significant difference in the re-participation intentions of the participants who played tennis for recreational purposes according to their involvement levels.It was observed that participants with high involvement levels had higher re-participation intentions than those with low involvement.
Keywords: Tennis, Involvement, Recreation, Racket sports, Re-participation intention
Received: 16 Dec 2024; Accepted: 25 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Karakullukcu, Ayhan, Kalkan, Okudan, Talaghir and Teodora Mihaela. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Cihan Ayhan, Department of Recreation, Faculty of Sports Science, Sakarya University of Applied Scienc, Sakarya, Sakarya, Türkiye
Laurentiu-Gabriel Talaghir, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Dunarea de Jos University, Galați, 800008, Romania
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