Reliability of the Leisure Boredom Scale for use with high school learners...

Journal of Leisure Research;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......studies have shown that the Leisure Boredom Scale (LBS) is a reliable and...determining subjective perceptions of leisure boredom. Iso-Ahola & Weissinger (1990) used the LBS to investigate leisure boredom among college students in America...

Downshifting: Regaining the Essence of Leisure.

Journal of Leisure Research;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...KEYWORDS: Leisure behavior, leisure meaning, commodification, consumerism The parameters for success...to give the reader a brief review of the historical evolution of leisure and its changes through time. I will examine how contemporary notions...

Sport, Leisure and Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain.(Reviews of...

Albion;  September 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Jeffrey Hill. Sport, Leisure and Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain...what we have learned about sport and leisure in twentieth-century Britain and suggests...Britain through examining sport and leisure as cultural texts and practices. To...

Development of the Aristotelian Ethical Behavior in Leisure Scale Short...

Therapeutic Recreation Journal;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Ethical Behavior in Leisure Scale" (AEBLS-S...ethical behavior in leisure were selected through...legal involvement, leisure boredom, children's social...substance abuse, and leisure boredom. Non-significant...ethical behavior in leisure from scores produced...good versus bad ...

The role of leisure education in parks and recreation.

Parks & Recreation;  May 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...The relationship between leisure and work has been examined in many...history. The ancient Greeks viewed leisure as a serious pursuit and assumed that...was justified as a means to obtain leisure. Aristotle described life as either...

Women's leisure and constraints to participation: Iranian perspectives.

Journal of Leisure Research;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Introduction The study of women's leisure has been visible in the leisure literature for almost 20 years. During that time, a good deal of information has been uncovered about leisure meanings and how leisure is enabled as well as constrained...

Multiple dimensions of meaning in the domains of work, family, and...

Journal of Leisure Research;  June 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ...The field of leisure studies has a considerable investment in the idea that leisure is fundamentally different from the rest of life. The legitimacy of research and theory on leisure has often been presumed to require such a clear...

Leisure in the lives of old lesbians: experiences with and responses to...

Journal of Leisure Research;  March 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Introduction In recent years, leisure researchers have given much attention to positive aspects of leisure and the benefits that people might experience through their leisure (cf. Driver, Brown, & Peterson, 1991). One popular view is that leisure...

Bid war on the cards as sector giants stalk First Leisure

The Independent - London;  August 18, 1997 ;     460 words ...Predators are believed to be circling First Leisure, the bingo to nightclubs group run by...is thought to be keen to maintain First Leisure's independence, having only just taken...is mounting that Bass, the brewing and leisure group, is considering a pounds 630m takeover...

Context and dialogue in research on women and leisure.

Journal of Leisure Research;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Introduction Research on women and leisure became visible about 20 years ago. During...epistemology. Research about women and leisure in the past five years has expanded further...researchers from around the world have examined leisure and its meanings from a range of cultural...

Leisure orientations and self-esteem in women with low incomes who are...

Journal of Leisure Research;  January 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ...Generally, investigations of gender issues in leisure behavior have established differences between the leisure of men and women. For example, Shaw (1985...that men experienced significantly more leisure than women and that weekends provided more...

One size doesn't fit all: the meaning of women's leisure.

Journal of Leisure Research;  June 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Introduction Until 15 years ago, women's leisure was an invisible area of study relatively...social psychological meaning of women's leisure in a one size fits all approach have been...but insufficient, step for understanding leisure behavior. The research about feminism...

LEISURE - MEANING AND IMPACT ON LEISURE TRAVEL BEHAVIOR

Journal of Services Research;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The concept of leisure has been discussed in numerous forums from sociology...various connotations. The current study looks at leisure in the specific context of travel as a manifest part of leisure behavior. Based on extant literature the determinants...

Leisure Research Symposium schedule announced.(BRANCH/REGION...

Parks & Recreation;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The 2006 Leisure Research Symposium promises to offer a wide variety of topics...Seattle, Wash.: OCT. 10, 12:45-2:00 P.M. Session 1: Women and Leisure I Engagement in Leisure: A Restorative Justice Approach to Working with Incarcerated...

leisure

Dictionary of the Social Sciences;      418 words ...leisure Economists traditionally defined leisure in opposition to work and more specifically as a residual...of Time ,” 1965) and Staffan Linder ( The Harried Leisure Class , 1970) offered an alternative interpretation of...