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The Serious Leisure Perspective and the Experience of Leisure [PDF]
Leisure Sciences, 2016 © 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The serious leisure perspective (SLP), which divides leisure activities into three distinct forms (serious, casual, and project-based), has been developed by Robert Stebbins over the last 40 years.
Veal, AJ
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“I'm not too old to lift”: exploring lifelong involvement in Olympic weightlifting through the serious leisure perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingIntroductionThis study explores the lifelong involvement of older adults in Olympic weightlifting (OW) with the aim of understanding the factors that motivate them to initiate and sustain participation across their lifespan, as well as the challenges ...
François Gravelle +2 more
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Analysis of paddlesport commitment and multiple outcomes: A serious leisure perspective
Cogent Social Sciences, 2017 Paddlesports as outdoor recreation (OR) have become popular options for leisure time consumption and as a means to obtain well-being. The concept of serious leisure (SL) was used to measure and explain the associations between committed leisure ...
KoFan Lee +2 more
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The challenges of the wind. Ecology of serious leisure in the Brazilian Northeast [PDF]
Frontiers in Sports and Active LivingAimThe aim of this study is to understand the development of windsports and the challenges faced by wind-based leisure activities.MethodsThe socio-historical dynamics behind the development of wind leisure are analysed on the basis of specialised tourism
Olivier Sirost +3 more
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Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021 The study sought to find out to what extent engagement with serious leisure, in this case, bonsai growing, can help people deal with challenging times, such as a global pandemic.
Yazdan Mansourian
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Mind-stimulating leisure activities: Prospective associations with health, wellbeing, and longevity
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionThis study examines prospective associations within a 6-year perspective between three mind-stimulating leisure activities (relaxed and solitary: reading; serious and solitary: doing number and word games; serious and social: playing cards ...
Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska +6 more
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Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2021 The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis management strategies adopted by world leaders across the globe in 2020 impacted the work-life balance of billions of people.
Richard Keith Wright +2 more
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Self-actualization and Self-efficacy in the Elderly in a Ludic Italian Language Learning Program
Licere, 2021 This article presents the conceptual framework developed for the study “Self-actualization and self-efficacy in the elderly in a ludic foreign language program.” We explicate the theoretical grounds for the ludic teaching approach used in the Italian ...
Nilce da Silva, Hélène Carbonneau
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Understanding Women Modders using the Serious Leisure Perspective [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020 Modding, the act of custom creation in videogames, is a large enterprise comprising millions of people. Despite the large number of individuals creating mods, our understanding of who modders are and their motivation for modding is limited. This is especially true for minority groups, including women.
Tancred, Nicoletta +4 more
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Angles, 2017 This article discusses leisure in contemporary Britain pertaining to the political participation of young people in relation to the concepts of ‘serious leisure’ and ‘politically engaged leisure.’ Leisure is a fundamental component of a young person’s ...
Sarah Pickard
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