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Leisure Education in Colleges and Universities
In manifold ways colleges and universities foster leisure and thereby leisure education. Some of this leisure education is an unintended consequence...
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Introducing ‘Everyday Moments of Leisure’: Highlighting Enjoyable Breaks and Pauses
Momentary experiences of leisure in the context of routine activities, such as pausing to watch a sunset out the kitchen window, or to chat with a...
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“I Don’t Want to Have the Time When I Do Nothing”: Aging and Reconfigured Leisure Practices During the Pandemic
In this paper, we contend that urban middle-class older Indians engaged in “serious leisure” as a way to reimagine and reconfigure the structure of...
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The Impact of Residents' Leisure Time Allocation Mode on Individual Subjective Well-being: The Case of China
As the main tension in Chinese society has become that between people's growing need for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development,...
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Can Leisure Become a Place Generator? Exploring the Idea through Stebbins’s Serious Leisure Perspective
It is surprising that only now leisure studies are starting to look at the importance of the physical environment (i.e. natural and built...
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Necessity-Rich, Leisure-Poor: The Long-Term Relationship Between Income Cohorts and Consumption Through Age-Period-Cohort Analysis
The main aim of this study is to analyse household consumption patterns in the highest and lowest income quintiles and explore how they have changed...
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Clearing Your Mind of Work-Related Stress Through Moderate-to-Vigorous and Leisure-Time Physical Activity: What ‘Dose’ it Take?
Work is reported as a major source of psychological stress. Because of its role in the onset of burnout and its impact on economic and health...
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Leisure
The PEA (pondering of everyday activities) of Homo otiosus, leisure man, diverges from that of Homo faber, for it relates to how we see life in our...
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Serious Leisure Visual Artists in Israel: Challenging Amateurism
This study investigates ‘amateurish’ visual artists and their work, exhibited at the Upper-Floor Gallery (UFG) at the Memorial Center of Kiryat...
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The Locational Choice of Urban Lifestyle Migrants in Lisbon: Beyond Tourism Imaginaries
This chapter foregrounds discussions on the city as a lifestyle destination in the context of increasing urban tourism and privileged migration to...
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Individual Participation in Leisure
The preceding chapters show that obligation is an omnipresent feature of everyday life, and that it may be agreeable or disagreeable (Stebbins 2000)....
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The Impact of Age, COVID-19 and Physical Activity on Life Satisfaction in the European Union: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
In psychology and public health domains, there is a strong interconnection between life satisfaction, an individual’s cognitive evaluation of one’s...
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Self-selection or situational stratification? A quasiexperimental study on social class differences in health behaviors in China
Fundamental cause theory suggests that differences in social status lead to health inequalities, with lifestyle serving as the intermediary...
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Underneath the Sheets: a Cross-Cultural Cluster Analysis of Older Adults’ Patterns of Aging and Sexual Well-Being in Portugal and Mexico
This study aims to assess the patterns of life satisfaction with life (SwL), sexual satisfaction, and adjustment to aging (AtA), of older adults in...
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Across and Within- Individual Associations Between Everyday Activities and Quality of Life Relevant Measures, in Workers with Type 1 Diabetes
Relationships between activity engagement and health related quality of life (HRQOL) can differ based on the level of analyses. For instance, greater...
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Children’s Time Use Patterns and Subjective Well-being in Asian Countries
This international study aims to explore time use patterns in which children experience higher subjective well-being within varying national contexts...
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Positive and Negative Spillover Effects: Managing Multiple Goals in Middle Adulthood
Both in the research literature as well as in popular media, the topic of “work-life” balance receives much attention, particularly for the age group...
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Impacts of Industrialization on Foraging in Peri-Urban Areas. Insights from Padua, NE Italy
Western European societies, ecologies, and economies were significantly impacted by industrialization after WWII. Steadily increasing urbanization...
