Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
22nd International Sport Sciences Congress, Ankara, Türkiye, 21 - 24 Kasım 2024, ss.605-606
Introduction and Purpose Social appearance anxiety negatively affects individuals' psychological states. Providing various opportunities to help individuals escape these negative situations and promoting their participation in leisure activities to increase their happiness can positively affect their psychological well-being. In this context, our study examines the moderated mediating effect of leisure involvement in the relationship between social appearance anxiety, leisure satisfaction, and happiness. Method The sample group of the study, which follows a correlational model, consists of 134 women (32.4%) and 279 men (67.6%), totaling 413 individuals (M = 22.72 ± 3.12), selected using the convenience sampling method. To collect data, the following scales were used: the "Social Appearance Anxiety Scale (SAAS),” the "Leisure Involvement Scale (LIS)", the "Leisure Satisfaction Scale (LSS)", and the "Oxford Happiness Scale - Short Form (OHS-SF)". A structural equation model (SEM) has been developed for this study. In the model, social appearance anxiety (x: independent variable), leisure satisfaction (m: mediator variable), leisure involvement (w: moderator variable), and happiness (y: dependent variable) are included as key variables. The basic assumptions of parametric tests were tested, and descriptive statistics were employed to analyse the data. Furthermore, all of the model's construct validity criteria were met. The SPSS Process Macro (Model 7) was utilized to identify leisure involvement as a moderated mediator in the relationship between social appearance anxiety, leisure satisfaction, and happiness. A bootstrap sample of 5000 and a 95% confidence interval (CI) were calculated, and the CI values do not include 0 (zero), indicating that the moderated mediating effect is significant. Findings Pearson correlation analysis indicated a significant negative relationship between the mean scores of the SAAS, LIS, LSS, and OHS-SF (p<0.01). The analysis revealed that social appearance anxiety has a direct negative effect on happiness (β = -0.315, 95% CI [-0.4001, -0.2311], t = -7.341, p < 0.05). Additionally, the indirect effect of social appearance anxiety on happiness was found to be significant, indicating that leisure satisfaction mediates the relationship between social appearance anxiety and happiness (β = -0.091, 95% CI [-0.1418, -0.0525], p < 0.05). In the moderated mediation analysis, the indirect effect of social appearance anxiety on happiness through leisure satisfaction was found to be significant at low (β = 0.048, 95% CI [-0.1020, -0.0111]), medium (β = 0.083, 95% CI [-0.1293, -0.0482]), and high (β = 0.113, 95% CI [-0.1683, -0.0671]) levels of leisure involvement. Furthermore, the moderated mediation index was found to be significant (β = -0.044, 95% CI [-0.0803, -0.0073]). Results In conclusion, compared to low and moderate levels of involvement, higher levels of leisure involvement lead to a stronger effect of social appearance anxiety on leisure satisfaction. This paper, as the first study, provides an analysis of the moderated mediation effect in the relationship between social appearance anxiety, leisure involvement, leisure satisfaction, and happiness in the existing literature. Furthermore, it can contribute both theoretically and practically to the development of individuals' psychological factors through leisure, opening up new avenues for future research from a variety of perspectives.