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APA Citation:   McIntyre, N. (1992). Involvement in risk recreation: A comparison of objective and subjective measures of engagement. Journal of Leisure Research. Vol 24(1), 1992, pp. 64-71.

Abstract:
Examined 3 methods of assessing the level of engagement of 132 rockclimbers, namely, skill level, self-reported experience, and the perceived importance of the activity or involvement. Of these, both experience and involvement demonstrated a relationship between the level of engagement and motivations. However, only the latter exhibited the proposed increase in intrinsic motivations with engagement. The importance an individual attaches to participation or the involvement level may provide a more appropriate basis for assessing the levels of engagement in future empirical analysis of the "Adventure Model" (A. Ewert and S. Hollenhurst; see record 1990-08795-001) of risk recreation.

Keywords:   *Experience Level; *Involvement; *Recreation; *Risk Taking