This paper describes research which has developed a detailed instrument for assessing motives and emotions in motorbiking that comprehensively assessed the motivational and emotional aspects of an intrinsically motivated leisure-time activity such as: positive experience, dynamic aspects of biking, performance aspects, social aspects, control beliefs, identification with the motorbike, as well as experiencing flow and sensation seeking. The last two aspects in particular have been studied intensively in motivational and differential research on high-risk leisure-time activities. The instrument contains a scale for each of the above-mentioned aspects. It was tested on 376 motorbikers. The psychometric analysis of the data demonstrated the quality of the instrument. Further statistical-differential studies have shown which differences in motives and emotions exist between single age groups and users of different types of motorbike. The different temperaments of the individual driver types are clearly expressed in motives and emotions.
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