Reconceptualizing the motive/environment link in recreation choice behavior.

Effective inventory, management, and planning for recreation resources depend upon knowing 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-behaviour/environment relationship intended to improve the predictive power of this line of research. The process of recreation behaviour is seen as the attempt to attain a desirable state of consciousness which is experienced as satisfaction in recreation.-Authors