Relationship serious leisure and leisure satisfaction mediated by recreational involvement in amateur Volleyball athletes

Leisure under the influence of socio-economic developments and global values is one of the concerns of individuals. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of serious leisure on satisfaction from lelisure activities with the mediation of recreational involvement in amateur volleyball athletes. The research method was applied research of purpose and correlation in terms of data collection, which was done in the field. The target population of the study was non-professional athletes of Tehran Volleyball House who had at least 6 months of membership in this collection. Software was used to determine the sample size and the sampling method was available. Finally, 274 questionnaires were used for statistical analysis. The face and content validity of the data collection tool was reviewed by 9 experts in this field. Cronbach's alpha was 0.95. In order to analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used using SPSS software version 26 and PLS version 3. The findings show that one of the most important factors in increasing people's satisfaction with leisure activities is recreational involvement, which is most effective after gravity, and the more irritated people are about an activity, the greater their satisfaction. Entertainment participation predicts 49% and serious leisure 42% of changes in leisure satisfaction, and 66% recreational involvement of changes depend on the serious leisure of volleyball players. Therefore, considering a factor such as recreational involvement can be a great help to the officials in the field of leisure to attract and satisfy more customers of Tehran Volleyball House.