Values, Ideologies, Attitudes, and Preferences for Relative Allocations to Park and Recreation Services. (18th August 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pitas, Nick A.; Mowen, Andrew; Taff, B. Derrick; Hickerson, Benjamin; Graefe, Alan
• Is Part Of: Leisure sciences. Volume 44:Number 6(2022)
• Page Start: 677
• Page End: 696
• Publication Date: 2022-08-18
• Subjects: Public parks and recreation -- privatization -- financing -- values; Leisure -- Periodicals; 306.4812
• DOI: 10.1080/01490400.2019.1656120
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0149-0400

Abstract

Abstract: Local park and recreation agencies rely heavily on tax-based allocations as a funding source. However, such allocations have recently been cut both overall and relative to other services, incentivizing exploration of alternative funding strategies. Privatization practices represent a potentially efficacious but controversial alternative funding approach. This study examines the relationship between attitudes toward privatization, and preferences for allocating tax-based funding to park and recreation services. The mediating role of other cognitive processes (values, value orientations, and ideology) is considered using a cognitive hierarchy approach. Results indicate that a more positive perception of privatization was related to the allocation of less tax funding to park and recreation services. A more self-transcendent value orientation was positively related to preferred allocations, while a more self-enhancement value orientation and a more conservative social ideology were negatively related to preferred allocations.