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Leisure Time, Non-leisure Time, and Occupational Physical Activity in Asian Americans
Annals of Epidemiology, 2005Asian American immigrants' risk of heart disease, diabetes, and obesity increase with duration of residence in the United States (US). Regular physical activity reduces the risk of these diseases, yet little is known about physical activity in Asian Americans and how it changes after immigration.Data from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey ...
Diane S. Lauderdale, Namratha R. Kandula
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Leisure Time and Leisure Space
1989Leisure 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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2006
Both notions examined in this chapter — time and leisure — pose considerable definitional difficulties. St Augustine, struggling in the fourth century with the concept of time, wrote: ‘What then is time? If no one asks of me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not’ (St Augustine, Confessions, XI, 14). Ennis, in an article published 16
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Both notions examined in this chapter — time and leisure — pose considerable definitional difficulties. St Augustine, struggling in the fourth century with the concept of time, wrote: ‘What then is time? If no one asks of me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not’ (St Augustine, Confessions, XI, 14). Ennis, in an article published 16
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Patterns of Leisure Time and Non-Leisure Time Physical Activity of Korean Immigrant Women
Health Care for Women International, 2011Our purpose in this study was to examine the patterns of physical activity and demographic characteristics associated with those patterns in Korean immigrants in the United States. Participants were 197 women, and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire was utilized.
Mi Ja Kim, JiWon Choi, JoEllen Wilbur
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Gender and Leisure: Inequality in the Distribution of Leisure Time
Journal of Leisure Research, 1985Consideration of status differences between males and females in society in general leads to the expectation of inequality in access to leisure time.
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In search of leisure time: An endogenous growth model with leisure services
Metroeconomica, 2019AbstractStarting from the Ladrón‐de Guevara et al.’s framework, we develop a model with an additional sector for the production of leisure services. By introducing consumption of leisure services as a time‐consuming activity, our model generalizes the standard time allocation problem whereby total available time can be allocated between work, education,
Guido Candela +2 more
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, 2016
Summary Previous research showed that psychological detachment from work during leisure time is beneficial and that reflecting on negative aspects of work is detrimental for employees’ well-being.
Laurenz L. Meier +2 more
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Summary Previous research showed that psychological detachment from work during leisure time is beneficial and that reflecting on negative aspects of work is detrimental for employees’ well-being.
Laurenz L. Meier +2 more
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Correlates of leisure‐time reading
Journal of Research in Reading, 1987ABSTRACTPupils from middle‐class homes devoted an average of 7.2 per cent of leisure time to reading. The relationship between home environment, attitude to reading and motivations for reading on the one hand and leisure‐time reading on the other, was examined. The addition of these sets of variables to previously established correlates of leisure‐time
Vincent Greaney, Mary Hegarty
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2006
Introduction The first edition of Thomas Greenwood's Free public libraries , published in 1886, featured a cartoon depicting two well-dressed gentlemen entering a Free Library. Adjacent to the library was a public house; the door of the library led to education and personal improvement, that of the Red Lion to drink and poverty.
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Introduction The first edition of Thomas Greenwood's Free public libraries , published in 1886, featured a cartoon depicting two well-dressed gentlemen entering a Free Library. Adjacent to the library was a public house; the door of the library led to education and personal improvement, that of the Red Lion to drink and poverty.
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Social Support and Leisure-Time Physical Activity Among the Elderly: A Population-Based Study.
Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 2016BACKGROUND Physical inactivity in elderly is a public health problem. The purpose of this study is to describe and test the association between social support and leisure-time physical activity among the elderly.
Andrea Wendt Böhm +4 more
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