Associations between leisure experiences, psychological resilience, and sustainable consumption behaviours in recreational park users

This study examines how leisure experiences relate to sustainable consumption behaviour through leisure crafting and psychological resilience among urban park users in Konya, Türkiye. The model is based on a context-based interpretation of the Value–Belief–Norm framework. Data were collected from 377 participants using a structured questionnaire. The study used PLS-SEM to test direct and indirect relationships. The results show that leisure awareness, challenge, and distress predict leisure crafting, while boredom shows a weak negative effect. Leisure experiences have limited effects on resilience. Leisure crafting predicts environmental awareness, saving, and reusability, but not non-essential purchase. Resilience has weaker and selective effects on outcomes. Mediation results show that leisure crafting plays a significant role between leisure experiences and sustainable behaviours, while resilience does not act as a mediator. The findings indicate that active engagement in leisure is more important than passive experience. The study highlights that sustainable consumption behaviour depends on specific psychological processes. It also shows that different behavioural outcomes respond to different mechanisms.