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Leisure Despite Constraint: The Impact of Leisure Constraints on Leisure Participation

Journal of Leisure Research, 1991
High levels of constraint have been assumed to lead to restricted engagement in leisure activities.
Tess Kay, Guy Jackson
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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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The interrelationship of leisure and play: play as leisure, leisure as play. Leisure studies in a global era

Annals of Leisure Research, 2016
Stebbins’ new book, The Interrelationship of Leisure and Play: Play as Leisure, Leisure as Play (2015) provides timely insight to further the scholarship of leisure, the serious leisure perspective...
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Migration, migrants and leisure: meaningful leisure?

Leisure Studies, 2015
This special issue looks at the ways in which migrants’ leisure activities contribute to self-perception, daily life organisation, multiple embeddedness and sense of belonging.
Mata-Codesal, D, Peperkamp, EMJ, Tiesler, NC   +2 more
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Leisure-rich and leisure-poor: the leisure patterns of young adults

Leisure Studies, 1984
Some of the results of an investigation into the leisure patterns and lifestyles of 200 ‘young adults’ living in the Potteries are presented. On the basis of selected attributes of their leisure behaviour, respondents were classified into six leisure activity types and ordered along a spectrum from ‘leisure-rich’ to ‘leisure-poor’.
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Leisure Time and Leisure Space

1989
Leisure time and leisure space are not fixed and definite features of society. ‘Nineteenth and twentieth century life,’ writes Yeo,1 ‘has been full of attempts to divide performing from spectating, street space from play space, education and welfare from recreation, politics from the rest of life, values and choices from production, work from ...
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The Meaning of Leisure

Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 1999
Actively creating leisure experiences, or authoring leisure, allows older adults to achieve satisfaction and improve their quality of life.
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The Demand for Leisure

Journal of Political Economy, 1971
Complementarity between leisure time and market recreation is estimated empirically by regressing the demand for leisure time of U.S. employees in the 1900-1961 period on the relative price of recreational goods and services, holding real income and the relative price of leisure time constant.
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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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Is Leisure Theory Needed For Leisure Studies?

Journal of Leisure Research, 2000
KEYWORDS: Leisure theory, social exchange Studying leisure has been the subject of interest by a wide range of scholars representing a wide range of disciplines. In so doing, these scholars have largely used leisure instrumentally as means to test some aspect of their own discipline such as psychological, sociological, or economic concepts.
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