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Active leisure, passive leisure and health

Economics & Human Biology, 2021
Leisure consumption has been increasing in the United States since the 1960s. Over the same period, inactive lifestyles have contributed to adverse health outcomes. We propose a new way of categorizing leisure into groups based on the amount of physical exercise needed. Our results show that physically active leisure is a normal good whose demand rises
Soumyadip Roy, Peter F. Orazem
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Leisure for Leisure: Critical Essays.

Contemporary Sociology, 1990
Part 1 Theoretical perspectives on leisure: models of work, models of leisure, H.F.Moorhouse the figurational approach to leisure and sport, E.Dunning Sigmund Freud and the pursuit of pleasure, H.Ferguson Simmel and leisure, D. Frisby leisure and "the ruins of the bourgeois world", C.Rojek.
John Wilson, Chris Rojek
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Pursuing Leisure During Leisure-Time Physical Activity

Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 2010
Background:While considerable attention has been given to quantifying leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) among subpopulations, less attention has focused on the perception of the experience as leisure. The current study describes the prevalence of leisure-like experiences during LTPA among college students.
Kindal A, Shores, Stephanie T, West
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Interrelationships Among Leisure Participation Leisure Satisfaction and Leisure Attitudes

Journal of Leisure Research, 1980
Some of the determinants of leisure participation were identified and investigated. Among those determinants were leisure attitude, age, and sex.
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Leisure, contemplation and leisure education

Ethics and Education, 2006
I argue in defense of Aristotle's position that contemplation (theoria) is the proper use of at least some of one's leisure and that, consequently, leisure education must consist in teaching the inclination and capacity for contemplation. However, my position is somewhat more flexible than Aristotle's, in that I allow that there are other activities ...
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Leisure

2023
This essay examines the concept of leisure in 19th century Victorian Britain, it examines how leisure offered a form of liberation for the Victorians and the possibility of being carefree, unrestrained and open to a good time. This essay contrasts the concept of leisure with the other side of the Victorian belief in the Protestant ...
Rohan McWilliam, Harold Perkin
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Digital Leisure and Communicative Leisure

2015
It is easy to turn to the Net to find out what it means to be alternative, to be a goth or a punk or a metaller. One can find Wikipedia and other forms of wiki pages discussing the history, the music and the fashions, along with hundreds, if not thousands, of pages set up by people to try to define this alternative subculture as they understand it ...
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New Leisure and Leisure Customization

World Leisure Journal, 2009
Abstract New leisure is any activity of recent invention undertaken in free time, in the sense that a number of people in a region, nation, or larger sociocultural unit have only lately taken it up as a pastime. The goal here is to examine the nature and import of new leisure activities.
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