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The trends of social psychological research on recreation

Most studies in Korea and Japan on Recreation have used the social survey as a research method and some studies have used speculative methods which are used to attempt principal investigation. However, studies in western countries, including America and Canada have focused on many fields, even including sociology, psychology, economics, industrial engineering and ecology. Socioloical studies on Recreation have been an essential area, since publishing of “the theory of leisure class : an economic study in the evolution of institutions” of Vebren, T.B.(1899). Leisure sociology, based on practical data appeared in 1920 to 1930. After publishing of mass leisure of Larrbee, E and Meyersohn, R.B., the mass leisure era appeared in 1950 to 1960 and researchers took a growing interest in much broader fields. From 1960 to the present, the number of studies on recreation have increased and extended to many fields. Since 1960, researchers on recreation have gazed with deep interest and anxiety on practical studies to apply its’ results to everyday life. Although it was Kaplan who gave a definition of recreation from objective and subjective standpoints, Many studies have attempted to analyze one’s mental state, experience and attitude, which are existent in the subject of behavior by psychological concept from subjective standpoint. Many psychological studies on recreation published from the late 1960’s to the early 1970’s. During that time, the psychological studies focused on amusements, motive, personality, socialization and metal hygienic effects of recreation. And also, experimental studies and analytic studies by case studies were published.