Youth Outdoor Recreation Experience, Race, and Socioeconomic Status: Explaining Connection to Nature and Future Career Interest

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2022-10-21 DOI:10.18666/jorel-2022-11599

N. Q. Lackey, Lisa Meerts-Brandsma, Jeff Rose

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Abstract

The outdoor recreation industry faces the challenge of recruiting the next generation of professionals. This study examined factors that may influence young adults’ interest in outdoor recreation careers, including participation in organized and unorganized outdoor recreation as a youth, connection to nature (CTN), racial identity, and socioeconomic status (SES). An online questionnaire was distributed using a Qualtrics panel, and criterion sampling was used to ensure the sample included participants with approximately equal representation across racial identity and SES categories. Participation in unorganized recreation, CTN, and SES were found to be significant predictors of interest in outdoor recreation careers. Additionally, participation in organized recreation was found to be a significant negative predictor of CTN, while participation in unorganized recreation and racial identity were significant positive predictors of CTN, and CTN had a small mediating effect on the relationship between unorganized recreation participation and interest in outdoor recreation careers.

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青少年户外娱乐经验、种族与社会经济地位:对自然与未来职业兴趣的解释

户外娱乐行业面临着招聘下一代专业人士的挑战。本研究考察了可能影响年轻人对户外娱乐职业兴趣的因素，包括青年参与有组织和无组织的户外娱乐，与自然的联系(CTN)，种族认同和社会经济地位(SES)。使用qualics面板分发在线问卷，并使用标准抽样来确保样本包括种族身份和社会经济地位类别的参与者大致相同的代表性。参与无组织的娱乐活动、CTN和SES被发现是对户外娱乐职业感兴趣的显著预测因子。此外，有组织休闲活动的参与是CTN的显著负向预测因子，而无组织休闲活动的参与和种族认同是CTN的显著正向预测因子，CTN在无组织休闲活动参与与户外休闲职业兴趣之间的关系中具有微小的中介作用。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.