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Youth activism in Poland: Perceptions, participation and diverging perspectives from young people and activists

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent years have seen a growing scholarly interest in youth activism (YA), a phenomenon often viewed as a positive development in response to declining civic and political engagement among young people. However, most of the research focuses on the activists themselves and gives less attention to how YA is perceived by the broader youth ...
Martyna Elerian, Miri Yemini, Katarzyna Jasikowska   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When leisure becomes excessive: a bifurcation result in endogenous growth theory [PDF]

The traditional assumption concerning endogenous labor supply in models of economic growth is that utility increases with leisure, independently of the specific time allocation of the representative agent observed at a given moment.
Gomes, Orlando
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Keeping in touch – A benefit of public holidays using time use diary data [PDF]

This paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain ...
Joachim Merz, Lars Osberg
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Parental involvement and engagement during COVID‐19 lockdowns: School staff and parents' reflections about children's learning at home

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Valuing parental engagement, as part of home–school collaboration, can benefit children's learning. This article focuses on parents and school‐based staff's (N = 120) experiences of children's learning occurring at home during the COVID‐19 lockdowns (2020–2021), both school‐mandated and other learning activities.
Ashley Brett, Bonny L. Hartley, Deborah Wallace, Adewale Magaji, Lorraine Smith, Rachel Wolfendale   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predictors of leisure physical activity in a spanish university population

Pedagogía Social: Revista Interuniversitaria, 2014
Objectives: To determine some predictors of leisure-time physical activity in the Spanish university environment. Participants: A total of 1340 participants (48% men), with an average age of 22 years.
Ana Ponce-de-León Elizondo, Eva Sanz Arazuri   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predicting substance use behavior among South African adolescents: The role of leisure experiences across time [PDF]

, 2011
Using seven waves of data, collected twice a year from the 8th through the 11th grades in a low-resource community in Cape Town, South Africa, we aimed to describe the developmental trends in three specific leisure experiences (leisure boredom, new ...
Caldwell, L.L., Caldwell, L.L., Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development., Catherine Mathews, Chassin, L., Donna L. Coffman, Edward A. Smith, Erikson, E., Erin Hiley Sharp, Farrington, D.P., Fitzmaurice, G.M., Flisher, A.J., Gordon, W.R., Graham, J.W., Haugaard, J.J., Hedeker, D., Johnston, L.D., Kleiber, D.A., Lerner, R.M., Linda L. Caldwell, Lisa Wegner, Mahoney, J. L., Silbereisen, R.K., Statistics South Africa., Tania Vergnani, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse., Verma, S., Wegner, L.   +27 more
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Young people's occupational aspirations beyond the aspiration discourse: A sociocultural perspective

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people's aspirations have been the focus of many educational, sociological and psychological studies. This paper argues, firstly, that the concept of aspirations holds greater generative potential than suggested by the policy‐oriented ‘aspiration discourse’.
Jelena Popov
wiley   +1 more source

Leisure time and labor productivity: a new economic view rooted from sociological perspective

Economics: Journal Articles, 2019
Most economists measure labor productivity based on activities conducted at places of work and do not consider leisure time in their calculations. In contrast, psychologists and sociologists argue that leisure has a positive role in the production ...
Cui Dan, Wei Xiang, Wu Dianting, Cui Nana, Nijkamp Peter   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the Role of Prospect Theory for Fast‐Fashion Practice as Experienced Through a Generational Lens: Marketing an Environmental Business Strategy That Appeals to Fashion Identity and Time Horizon Values

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The financially lucrative fast‐fashion business strategy is criticised for impacting detrimentally on the environment, with marketing tactics encouraging frequent‐impulsive fashion consumption. This research presents a novel conceptual framework merging fashion involvement values within prospect theory, creating a fashion‐identity‐time‐horizon
Elaine L. Ritch, Noreen Q. Siddiqui, Catherine Canning   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leisure-time physical activity in youth as a predictor of adult leisure physical activity among Japanese workers: a cross-sectional study

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2017
Background Workers in Japan are not sufficiently active; however, it remains unclear how their leisure-time physical activity habits may be developed. This cross-sectional study investigated the relationship of age- and intensity-specific leisure-time ...
Hiroaki Itoh, Fumihiko Kitamura, Noriko Hagi, Tomoe Mashiko, Takehisa Matsukawa, Kazuhito Yokoyama   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source