Factors of motivation that leads involvement in outdoor leisure activity / Siti Nor Farhah Kamarudin

The purpose of this study was to investigate the level type of motivation of participants in outdoor leisure activity at Wilderness Malaysia. The researcher also identified the difference each type of motivation between male and female in outdoor leisure activity at Wilderness Malaysia. 70 participants was involved through 2 outdoor leisure event organized by Wilderness Malaysia as purposive sampling to participate in this study. The instrument that were used in this study was Leisure Motivation Scale (LMS) questionnaire and demographic questionnaire. One-way MANOVA were used to identified the difference, the result showed that there is no significance difference 5 domain in intrinsic motivation toward to know (P=0.44), to accomplish (P=0.25), to experience stimulation (P=0.84) and extrinsic motivation toward identified (P=0.34) and introjected (P=0.21), while extrinsic motivation toward external regulation (P=0.01) and a motivation (P=0.00) showed a significance difference. As a conclusion, people did gained an extrinsic and intrinsic motivation for personal reward when involve in outdoor leisure activity.