Leisure constraints are known to have negative effects on individuals' participation in their desired activities. Despite the presence of various constraints, many individuals continuously engage in those activities by using several negotiation strategies. Prior studies that examined the leisure constraints negotiation process have focused on whether individuals participate in the activities or not as study outcomes and thus paid scant attention to whether they fulfill desired leisure benefits through leisure involvement. Unlike prospective participants who want to initiate participation, current participants are likely eager to pursue diverse leisure benefits from their habitual engagement while negotiating a series of constraints. The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a comprehensive understanding of how participants with desire for more frequent participation determine their continual leisure engagement and consequently acquire beneficial outcomes from their leisure involvement. In order to achieve the research purpose, this dissertation will make use of several concepts associated with participants' stronger leisure enjoyment.This dissertation provides empirical evidence that negotiation efforts play an important role in mediating the relationships between leisure constraints and different concepts such as future behavioral intentions and recreation demand for more frequent participation which predict participants' leisure benefit realization. Results indicate that participants made use of diverse cognitive and behavioral negotiation strategies to mitigate the impacts of leisure constraints and diminish their unfulfilled desire for continual engagement in favorite activities. Also, results show that participants made a strong effort to realize various leisure benefits from their leisure involvement by constantly challenging and overcoming constraints. With the three independent research essays, this dissertation suggests a conceptual framework that can help better understand recreationists' mechanisms of constraints negotiation and benefit realization. The dissertation presents several management implications based on study findings and recommendations for future research are discussed.
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