This study investigated the effect of culture on running involvement by reference to both Euro-Canadian and Japanese runners. The objective of the study was to identify similarities and differences in the running involvement-related and sociodemographic characteristics of runners participating in organized Euro-Canadian and Japanese running events. In terms of running involvement, this study considered three factors: attraction, centrality, and self-expression. The total sample included 122 valid responses from Canada and 340 valid responses from Japan. The findings revealed a significant effect of running involvement among both Japanese and Euro-Canadian runners in terms of three dimensions. The results also revealed a significant effect of country on three factors pertaining to running involvement. In summary, the results indicated that Euro-Canadian runners were likely to attain higher scores than were Japanese runners. The results of this study support the role of experience in running in these countries. The findings of this study revealed that some factors related to running involvement were lower among Japanese runners than among Euro-Canadian runners. Accordingly, this study improves our understanding of the effect of culture on running involvement. Additionally, the results of this study can be used to promote lifelong sports involvement.

Numerous people pay attention to large sporting events such as the Olympics and the football World Cup and derive a sense of national pride. As such, a large number of governments tend to support a national team for worldwide mega sporting events. The outcome of mega sporting events might affect citizens’ trust in government because this is a sort of government performance and solidifies national identity. However, few research studies have empirically estimated the impact of mega sporting events’ results on citizens’ trust in government. For this reason, this article is aimed at investigating how the 2014 World Cup affected Brazilian citizens’ trust in government. In particular, the article assesses how the disastrous defeat of Brazil by Germany affected Brazilian citizens’ trust in government. The results show that the outcome of the World Cup 2014 reduced Brazilian trust in government.

This article is written as a tribute to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021), whose Experience Sampling Method and ideas about the relationship between time passage and optimal experience (flow) laid the ground for the analyses of the effects of perceived passage of time, time pressure, and social rhythms of life on the feelings of happiness. Popular literature abounds with statements that the accelerated rhythms of modern life are taxing us emotionally. This article examines findings that justify both our intuitive fears of the accelerated rhythms of modern life and findings about people’s apparent enjoyment of fast-running time. Data for the analyses in the article are taken from the 2003 Experience Sampling Survey of Time Use and Well-Being, conducted at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and from Canada’s 2010 General Social Survey.

This study examines the impact of leisure constraints, motivation, and self-efficacy on the intention to participate in leisure activities among Turkish Gen Z and Millennials, comparing early adolescents and young adults to understand changes in leisure activity participation from middle school to adulthood. Data were gathered from individuals aged 15 to 39 for the first study and specifically from middle school students for the second study, using convenience sampling. A total of 425 questionnaires were acquired for the first study in December 2020 and 289 for the second study in November 2022. Structural Equation Modelling was utilized to analyze the data. The results of the first study indicate that motivation significantly influences both constraints and intention, while self-efficacy only influences motivation. In the second study, motivation’s significant influence was observed only on intention. While self-efficacy has a significant influence on motivation, only general self-efficacy influence constraints.

Cette revue narrative explore comment l’image du corps est mobilisée dans le voyage touristique. L’image du corps, un concept multidimensionnel influencé par le contexte socioculturel, est cruciale pour le bien-être mental et physique. Les études mettent en évidence les liens entre une mauvaise image corporelle et les attitudes et comportements alimentaires dysfonctionnels. Le tourisme offre un cadre unique pour explorer de nouvelles cultures et contribuer indirectement au développement d’une image du corps positive. La revue narrative a été menée entre septembre 2022 et septembre 2023 et a retenu 11 études à comités de pairs. Quatre thématiques émergent: le corps pour apprendre; le corps pour s’alimenter; le corps pour ressentir; et le corps pour se percevoir. Cette revue narrative souligne l’importance d’explorer l’interaction entre l’image du corps et le voyage touristique et positionne ce dernier comme une alternative holistique du voyage thérapeutique, au service du mieux-être corporel.

Given research connecting leisure experiences with well-being and challenges associated with aging, there are social-psychological principles that have been particularly insightful in explaining connections between leisure and their lives that have implications for leisure education. Studies identify the value of Self-Determination Theory, Optimal Experience, and Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (SOC), in understanding leisure in the lives of elders. There is merit in examining the literature through the lens of these relevant principles to increase understanding of the role leisure education might play in facilitating leisure experiences of elders. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to glean from literature examining applications of the three principles to increase understanding of ways to facilitate elders’ leisure experiences. Collectively, these concepts help identify elders’ leisure-related needs, desirable outcomes, and possible ways to meet those needs and facilitate those outcomes through leisure education. Based on this examination, the article includes recommendations for providing leisure education.

Through a series of semi-structured interviews (N = 20) conducted with foreign students on temporary mobility at the University of Strasbourg, this study sheds light on the fact that these temporary students belong to a globalized elite. It demonstrates that this elite has a culture of its own, shared by all the members of the group. The article shows that healthism and a socio-environmental model are conveyed through this global culture. It also highlights the important role of the media and supranational bodies in the dissemination of ideologies underlying this global culture.

Car Wash Party is a leisure activity organized in the streets of Port-au-Prince by the working classes. Its particularity is linked to the water games between participants and to the dress code. It emerged during the 2019 summer vacation, a period marked by popular demonstrations and public insecurity. This article proposes to understand the articulation between the production of leisure and the production of a collective space. Based on a grounded theory analysis of interviews and observational participations, results show, from the participants’ point of view, how Car Wash programs, through their dimensions of inclusivity, sociability, and social reproduction, participate in the production of a collective space and the revitalization of the city of Port-au-Prince. The importance of this study is to contribute to the understanding of the production of new leisure activities in the country.

This article identifies innovations that are likely to take place in the nature-based tourism sector in the future. The authors do this with the help of an international expert panel representing a broad range of perspectives relevant to the nature-based tourism market, service provision, and the natural resources upon which this tourism sector depends. The diversity of expertise reflects the need for greater variety in data acquisition processes in innovation research, and the focus on nature-based tourism adds knowledge about a sector experiencing rapid development. The authors observe several key findings at the crossroads between the five main innovation categories identified: product packaging, new technology, business relations, outdoor activity, and learning. The nature-based tourism innovation system is more complex than tourism innovation in general, and of special interest is the learning category, which can support understanding of nature, value creation, and safety.