Japan Outdoor Education Journal
Online ISSN : 1884-4677
Print ISSN : 1343-9634
ISSN-L : 1343-9634
Volume 22, Issue 1
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  • Narratives About Participants' Camp Experience and Life Story
    Fuyuka SATO, Hitoshi IMURA
    2018 Volume 22 Issue 1 Pages 1-18
    Published: 2018
    Released on J-STAGE: October 05, 2019
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    The study aims to elucidate the lasting impacts of organized camp on participants as they reached their adulthood through the viewpoint of autobiographical memory and autobiographical reasoning. Qualitative data were collected by semi-structured interviews with three male and four female research subjects (20 to 40-years age) who had participated in an organized camp during their childhood. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to analyze these seven case studies of organized camp experience. Through the IPA, 14 themes emerged which were categorized into two major domains. Domain of “impact on oneself” including seven themes ; “core of self,” “conception of nature,” “relationship to others,” “acquisition of sociability,” “improving confidence,” “interest and skill about outdoor education or outdoor activity,” “vitality,” and domain of “factor of impact on oneself” including seven themes ; “camper and adult staff,” “enjoyment,” “unusual situation,” “experience of severe situations,” “continuous participations,” “successful experience,” and “motivation for camp”. Results revealed that the duration of evaluation by participants about camp's significance is not confined within the immediate time frame of the occurrence. The camp's significance is reevaluated at different stages of one's life. This could be during the time when one goes to camp again, or when one is trying to figure out one's occupation, or even when one is facing an obstacle. Further, our analysis suggests that at each stage, the camp's experience is reassessed by the individuals and held a new meaning to them. This study confirms that the meaning-making process and lifelong benefits of camp experience during childhood to adulthood.

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  • Qualitative analysis for Scuba Divers
    Hideo MATSUMOTO, Koichi CHIASHI
    2018 Volume 22 Issue 1 Pages 19-36
    Published: 2018
    Released on J-STAGE: October 05, 2019
    JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

    The purpose of this study was aimed to qualify the effects of recreation specialization on subjective happiness and leisure satisfaction in Marine sports and Recreation. Specifically, semi-structured interviews with 19 experienced scuba divers were employed to investigate recreation specialization formation process and the effect of recreation specialization on subjective happiness and leisure satisfaction. Statements supporting the effects of scuba diving importance and centrality on subjective happiness were recognized, but there are no concrete statements that subjective happiness can increase in the recreation specialization formation process were provided. Therefore, the causal relationship between recreation specialization and subjective happiness was not upheld. Nevertheless, it was mentioned that leisure satisfaction kept increasing in the formation process of recreation specialization. More specifically, leisure satisfaction continued to improve in the process of recreation specialization based on their leisure participation. This result provided an implication of the causal relationship between recreation specialization and leisure satisfaction. In the process of recreation specialization, participants may change their purposes of scuba diving to reduce the feeling of boredom, which helped them to maintain the level of leisure satisfaction, which provided support the previous literature (Ateca-Amestoy et al., 2008) suggesting that the decline of leisure satisfaction by feeling of boredom.

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