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Equity, identity, and representation in outdoor recreation: ‘I am not an outdoors person’

Leisure Studies, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine the recreational experiences of African American residents in Hillsborough County, Florida at varied levels: institutional, recreational, and personal.
Amonté L. Martin, Alison E. Adams, Taylor Stein   +2 more
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COVID-19, mobility, leisure, and travel around the world

Journal of Leisure Research, 2023
The paper uses daily data from Google to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people’s mobility around the world regarding three types of leisure and travel activity: retail shopping and recreation; participation in open spaces, such as parks ...
Charilaos Mertzanis, Avraam Papastathopoulos, Christina Koutra, Hazem Marashdeh   +3 more
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Investigating the leisure behavior of Iranians: the structural model of serious leisure, recreation specialization and place attachment

, 2019
Leisure behavior and its associated factors are complex and manifold. The present study sought to investigate the effects of serious leisure (perseverance, effort, career, identity and ethos) and recreation specialization (economic commitment, experience
Kolsoum Heidari, S. Heydarinejad, Marjan Saffari, Amin Khatibi   +3 more
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Recreation and Leisure

2017
This chapter addresses attitudes towards recreation and leisure in nineteenth-century Christian thought using examples from the United Kingdom, North America, Australia, and Africa. Christianity influenced recreation through phenomena related to the animal welfare, temperance, Sabbatarian, Sunday school, Band of Hope, muscular Christianity, Young Men’s
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LEISURE AND RECREATION

History, 1980
LEISURE AND CLASS IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND: RATIONAL RECREATION AND THE CONTEST FOR CONTROL, 1830–1885. By Peter Bailey.THE SPICE OF LIFE: PLEASURES OF THE VICTORIAN AGE. By Patrick Beaver.THE ENGLISHMAN'S CHRISTMAS: A SOCIAL HISTORY. By J. A. R. Pimlott.THE LIFE AND ART OF ANDREW DUCROW and THE ROMANTIC AGE OF THE ENGLISH CIRCUS. By A. H. Saxon. HamdenTHE
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Promoting Community Recreation and Leisure

Pediatric Physical Therapy, 2003
The aim of this study was to investigate the nature and level of involvement a cross section of pediatric physical therapists (PTs) and pediatric occupational therapists (OTs) have achieved in promoting community recreation and leisure participation for their clients with disabilities.Using the current Internal Classification of Functioning and ...
Amy D, Thomas, Angela, Rosenberg
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Mental health benefits of nature-based recreation: a systematic review

Annals of Leisure Research, 2019
The demand for mental health services around the world has risen dramatically. Many researchers and practitioners are looking for alternative mental health treatments, including nature-based recreation.
N. Q. Lackey, Deborah A. Tysor, G. McNay, L. Joyner, Kensey H. Baker, Camilla J. Hodge   +5 more
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African Americans’ outdoor recreation involvement, leisure satisfaction, and subjective well-being

Current Psychology, 2022
K. Lee, Jonathan M. Casper, R. Powell, M. Floyd   +3 more
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Hospitality and Leisure/Recreation:

Journal of Hospitality & Leisure Marketing, 1994
Tourism is playing an increasingly important role in our society. The fields of hospitality and leisure/recreation management are closely allied fields in serving the tourism industry, but have come from separate traditions. This paper examines how their relationship is evolving.
J.S. Perry Hobson, Joseph D. Teaff
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Happiness, leisure and recreation

2002
Leisure is viewed by most people as a desirable goal in itself but ‘having’ leisure can be problematic because it ties expectations of happiness and contentment with a negative goal — not being occupied by work. How then do people ‘do’ leisure? How is the free time at their disposal to be filled?
Judith Milner, Patrick O’Byrne
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