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Healthy and Somewhat Wealthy: The Lived Experience of Successful Aging
Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia, 2020 The idea of being active, healthy, happy and independent as long as is possible is strongly promoted in public discourse and in aging policies. Starting from the idea of investigating the serious leisure practices of the elderly, I sought to develop a ...
Tobias Andrada
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European Papers, 2023 (Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2023 8(2), 713-740 | Article | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction: data retention and future-proofing. – II. “The Lighthouse for Privacy Rights in Europe”?
Gavin Robinson
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 Contemporary college students are suffering from increasingly serious psychological health problems, such as attention fatigue, psychological stress and negative emotions.
Weihong Guo +6 more
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The construction of identities in narratives about serious leisure occupations [PDF]
, 2015 Engagement in occupation contributes to the shaping of identity throughout the human life. The act of telling about such engagement involves interaction based on symbolic meaning; the speaker constructing an identity by conveying how the occupation is ...
Baldwin C. K. +22 more
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‘You don't understand us!’ An inside perspective on adventure climbing [PDF]
, 2013 This paper presents a specific (insider) perspective of a small group of experienced male Scottish adventure climbers and explores through in-depth semi-structured interviews their attitudes, strategies and justifications associated with potentially high-
Holland-Smith, David, Olivier, Steve
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Physical activities of boys and girls at primary schools in Central Slovakia [PDF]
, 2015 Our survey deals with the major issues affecting young people, which is the active leisure. We explore the most risky age – boys and girls attending primary school at age 13 to 15 years. By using questionnaire we detect and analyze differences of opinion
Adamčák, Štefan +3 more
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Sciences du Jeu, 2016 The success of serious games tends to conceal the little work yet produced about these hybrid objects. Both rooted in leisure time, by strong markers related to the game, and in working time, because of the educational aim that characterizes them, these ...
Victor Potier
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“I am not an artist, I make art”: amateurish artists in Israel and the sense of creativity
Creativity Studies, 2020 This study deals with self-taught visual artists who are considered “amateurish” by the establishment of the Memorial Center in Kiryat Tiv’on, Israel, where they have exhibit their artwork.
Shahar Marnin-Distelfeld, Uri Dorchin
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The public face of event volunteering at the 2006 Commonwealth Games The media perspective [PDF]
, 2009 Volunteers play a major role in mega and major events, both cultural and sporting, contributing invaluable human resources. Frequently described (and, maybe, over-emphasised) as the 'unsung heroes' of such events, relatively little is known about this ...
Baum, T.G., Lockstone, L.
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The value of the serious leisure perspective in understanding cultural capital embodiment in festival settings [PDF]
The Sociological Review, 2022 Festivals have been conceptualised as serious leisure activities as well as arenas for cultural capital acquisition and embodiment. However, there is still theoretical confusion surrounding the process of cultural embodiment, especially in leisure practices.
Ressetti, Giulia, Quinn, Bernadette
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