The purpose of this study is to conduct a relational analysis on serious leisure, recreation
specialization and leisure addiction. For this, an structural equation modeling analysis was
done on 317 persons living in Seoul, Incheon, Gyeonggi area using SPSS 18.0 and AMOS
18.0 program, and following conclusion was drawn; First, the higher the level of serious
leisure is, the higher the level of recreation specialization becomes. Second, the higher
the level of serious leisure is, the higher the level of recreation addiction becomes; and,
the higher level of recreation specialization also causes the higher level of recreation
addiction. Third, the higher the level of recreation specialization is, the higher the level
of recreation addiction becomes. Such a research result will provide the transition
process of leisure's positive factor to negative one and the embodiment process of
recreation addiction. In addition, it will give a help to subsequent researchers for
expansion of research on recreation addiction field.