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The research was aimed to study the impact of the Leisure Industry of Professional Baseball (LIPB) on social culture. Research was designed to understand the cognitive difference the involving degree of different demographics and professional baseball products. Besides, the interaction between the two mentioned above will be another point. The questionnaire was adopted and started from March 15 to April 14, 1997. According to the population and proportion of all sections in Tai-Chung City, non-random sampling method was used, and 424 effective questionnaires were collected. The results of descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis, and two-way ANOVA were as following: 1.On "life style", LIPB did not have high impact on locals. In"value", the residents held the positive perspectives. In "social relation" and "quality of life", the locals thought LIPB will help the promotion of both. 2.On the cognitive impact of life style, significant difference showed among live-spectators from different sections.In "value", great difference showed on professional baseball products among residents from different professions. In "social relation", for sex variable, locals showed great difference on TV-watching; for professjon variable, difference exited on life-spectators, magazines, and professional baseball products and for the income variable, TV-watching was added. In "quality of life", for sex variable, difference exited on products; and for ages, difference exited on TV-watching and magazines. 3.The more the residents involved into the products, the more the life style, the judgment of value, cognition of social relation, and the quality of life would be promoted. Besides, the buyers also showed higher cognition than those who did not buy. 4.There was interaction of the cognitive impact on "life style"among the involving degree of life-spectators, professions, educational background and incomes. Interaction existed between educational background and TV-watching on value, and so did the residential sections and magazine involving degree. Professions and life-spectators involving degree interacted on social reltion. Age, educational background, and life-spectators involving degree also interacted on quality of life.
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