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Running and serious leisure perspective

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The Serious Leisure Perspective

2014
This chapter lays out insufficient detail the serious leisure perspective (SLP). It covers serious, casual, and project-based leisure. There is also a discussion of work and leisure and one about the nature of activity. Non-work obligation and occupational devotion are also considered.
Sam Elkington, Robert Stebbins
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Volunteering as Serious Leisure

Leisure/Loisir, 2000
Abstract In this paper, the meaning of volunteering and related concepts are discussed first, and then a brief history of volunteering in Australia is given. The notion of volunteering as serious leisure is examined and the paper concludes with a few case studies of people who volunteer in various ways as part of their leisure.
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Serious Leisure and Recreation Specialization

Leisure Sciences, 2008
Most previous research concerning serious leisure has focused on testing the nature of activities using six distinctive qualities proposed by Robert Stebbins. Viewed from a different perspective, our study treats serious leisure as a type of personal characteristic.
Sheng-Hshiung Tsaur, Ying-Wen Liang
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Women, climbing and serious leisure

Leisure Studies, 2010
In this paper, the notion of serious leisure is critically explored in relation to women's climbing careers and identities. It draws upon findings from an in‐depth qualitative study of 19 women climbers and explores the concept of serious leisure from a gender perspective, arguing that in order to develop a more sophisticated understanding of serious ...
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Hobbies and Serious Leisure

World Leisure & Recreation, 1993
(1993). Hobbies and Serious Leisure. World Leisure & Recreation: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 27-32.
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YOUTH SPORTS AS SERIOUS LEISURE

Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 1997
It has been suggested that serious leisure can reduce problems resulting from meaningless leisure because serious leisure requires sustained and committed involvement. Youth sport participation has traditionally been viewed as a positive leisure involvement because of its contribution to healthy lifestyles and character development. These benefits can
K. L. Siegenthaler, G. Leticia Gonzalez
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Career (Serious Leisure) Volunteering

2015
Career volunteering is motivated by altruism and self-interest as well as by a sense of career in the activity and a set of special rewards gained from pursuing it. First, the theoretic advances that have been made beyond the two basic statements made in 1982 and 1996 are summarized.
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Cultural tourism as serious leisure

Annals of Tourism Research, 1996
Mather, E. C. 1972 The American Great Plains. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 62~237-257. Meinig, D.W. 1979 Reading the Landscape in the Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes. New York: Oxford University Press. Pinder, D. 1991 The Netherlands: Tourist Development in a Crowded Society.
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Performing Serious Leisure: Competitions

2018
This chapter discusses dancing competitions as experienced by medallists in Ballroom and Latin American dancing. Dancing competitions are argued to be highly ritualised spectacles which depend on the performance of both the individual and the couple. This chapter explores the dual forces of pressure and pleasure in Ballroom and Latin American dancing ...
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