Die invloed van geselekteerde avontuuraktiwiteite op gemoedstoestand en selfagting

[摘要] ENGLISH SUMMARY: The purpose of the study is to examine the psychological effect of participating inadventure recreational activities on the participant, with special reference tochanges in mood states and self-esteem.It is predicted that participation in such activities will have a positive influence onthe participants' mood states and levels of self-esteem. It is also hypothesized thatthese influences will be affected 'by the participants' age and gender. Finally it ispredicted that there will be a positive relationship between the participants' levels ofself-esteem and mood states prior to participation, as' well as after participation.The sample consisted of 145 men and 79 women who voluntarily took part in eightdifferent, commercially operated, adventure recreational activities. The subjects'mood states, as well as levels. of self-esteem were determined directly beforeparticipation by means of an adapted version of Grove and Prapavessis's (1992)shortened version of the Profile of Mood States questionnaire (POMS). Directly afterparticipation, the subjects completed the same questionnaire, thus two sets of datawere available and could be corripared.The results indicated that participants in all the activities (men as well as women), except SCUBA-diving, showed significant elevation in levels of self-esteem atcompletion of the activity. All the significant changes in the participants' moodstates indicated that positive mood states were reinforced, while negative moodstates became more positive. It was also found that the participants' age and genderinfluenced the results while a positive relationship was found between theparticipants' self-esteem and mood states.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University