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The Serious Leisure Perspective and the Experience of Leisure [PDF]

open access: yesLeisure Sciences, 2016
ABSTRACTThe 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. This article evaluates the perspective as theory and as a typology. The theory associated with the SLP concerning social worlds, identification, and
Veal, AJ, A. J. Veal
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Perspectives of Endurance Athletes' Spouses: A Paradox of Serious Leisure

open access: yesLeisure Sciences, 2017
Amateur endurance sports have been widely couched as serious leisure. However, to date there has been a lack of research exploring impacts of serious leisure on athletes' spouses. Adopting a grounded theory approach, in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 spouses of endurance athletes in Australia who regularly competed in distance running ...
Matthew Lamont   +2 more
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Serious Leisure [PDF]

open access: yesMovimento, 2012
Esta es la reseña del libro Serious Leisure: a perspective for our time, publicado en 2007. Robert A. Stebbins presenta la "perspectiva de ocio serio", que incluye tres formas de ocio: el "ocio serio", "ocio casual" y ocio proyecto-basado".
Saulo Neves de Oliveira, Johannes Doll
doaj   +2 more sources

Digital Gaming Participation from a Serious Leisure Perspective Examining Digital Literacy and Mindful Attention Awareness Levels [PDF]

open access: yesSportif Bakış Spor ve Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between digital game participation, digital literacy and mindful attention awareness levels from a serious leisure perspective.
Recep Cengiz, Batuhan Er
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The lived experience of London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games volunteers: a serious leisure perspective [PDF]

open access: yesLeisure Studies, 2014
Along with other sporting mega-events, the Olympic Games, in all its versions, makes extensive use of volunteers. The 70,000 London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic volunteers, for example, played a vital role in the delivery of the event. Stebbins’ theoretical perspective of serious leisure includes consideration of volunteering and there are calls for its
Wilks, Linda, Linda Wilks
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Exploring the Nature of Pre and Post Flow in Serious Leisure

open access: yes, 2006
This chapter explores the nexus between the flow theory and the serious leisure ...
Elkington, Samuel; id_orcid
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Targeted Retention of Communications Metadata: Future-proofing the Fight Against Serious Crime in Europe?

open access: yesEuropean 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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Research on the psychologically restorative effects of campus common spaces from the perspective of health

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Travel bloggers and the serious leisure perspective: Who do they think they are? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Web 2.0 environment has altered North American society immeasurably as producers and consumers have merged into one, the prosumer. This new type of individual is visible in the blogosphere, in particular when examining travel blogs. The creators of travel blogs spend a considerable amount of their leisure and work creating and maintaining these ...
Bates, Tonia
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Dancing through life in a changing world : Life course, historical time and serious leisure

open access: yes, 2021
There is a lack of studies taking a life course perspective in the growing field of research on the social aspects of older people’s dance. This study aims to redress this negligence by exploring older people’s experiences of social dance through life by
Heikkinen, Satu   +2 more
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