Leisure Lifestyles Research Articles

Group lifestyle mobilities: understanding Chinese senior long-stay tourists in rural destinations

ABSTRACT Existing work on senior lifestyle mobilities in China has predominantly focused on therapeutic landscape imaginaries and second-home cities. This paper shifts the focus to the group-oriented lifestyle pursuits of Chinese urban seniors who temporarily reside in rural areas for extended vacations. By interviewing Chinese senior long-stay tourists in rural destinations, this study examines how their decisions to engage in long-stay tourism are driven by the quest for a communal leisure lifestyle characterised by group living routines and a sense of camaraderie. Our findings highlight the role of geo-arbitrage in facilitating and accommodating these group-oriented mobility patterns among senior tourists. Yet, their mobile later life experiences are also marked by precariousness and vulnerability due to individual and group-level health decline, as well as the disparities in senior care services between urban and rural regions in China.

The Value of Leisure: Significance and Evolution

In recent decades, Spanish society has evolved, conditioned especially by the changing global environment of which it is a part. One of the areas of people's lives in which these transformations can be most clearly seen is that of leisure, which has given rise to a certain evolution in the value given to it by citizens, as well as in the relevance that leisure lifestyles are progressively acquiring. This article presents the results of the fifth European Leisure Values Survey applied to Spain. In the case of Spain, the effective sample size is 1,200 persons. The random samples provide a complete coverage of the target population (persons aged 18 and over residing in private households, irrespective of nationality or language). The results show how leisure currently occupies a central space in the cultural, social and economic reality of our environment.

Correlation Between Lifestyle Patterns and Cognitive Function Among Community-Dwelling Older Chinese Adults in the Pre-Dementia Stages: A Latent Class Analysis.

Lifestyle activity engagement is a modifiable factor for cognitive decline. We aimed to identify lifestyle patterns (LPs) among community-dwelling older adults in the pre-dementia stages and to explore the links between LPs, cognitive function, and individual characteristics. 702 older Chinese adults were recruited. Three LPs were identified by latent class analysis: active aging lifestyle pattern (AALP), leisure lifestyle pattern (LLP), and work-centered lifestyle pattern (WLP). AALP refers to participation in various activities that are meaningful to individuals and benefit their well-being. LLP is the pattern of activities aimed at recreation. WLP refers to the LP where individuals are most likely to engage in work-related activities. However, only AALP is protected against mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Multinomial logistic regression models revealed the differences in individual characteristics among participants with different LPs, indicating the importance of tailored intervention strategies. As a protective factor against MCI, AALP should be highlighted in community-based care.

Flow Perspectives: Using the FSS-2 to Compare Climbers With and Without Disabilities

Background: Participation in adventure as a recreational therapy intervention is well-recognized for its benefits for people with disabilities. Advances in technology and adaptive equipment have increased accessibility to adventure-based activities for those with physical disabilities. Climbing has long been established to facilitate the psychological state of flow; however, there is little research on the experience of flow in individuals with physical disabilities and adaptive climbing, specifically. Purpose: This study investigated if flow is experienced differently between individuals with and without physical disabilities who participated in climbing programs and to determine if there was a relationship between flow and intentions in future participation in climbing. Methodology: The Flow State Scale-2 was used to assess flow and additional questions measured participation. Findings: The global flow score on the FSS-2 indicated that climbers with and without disabilities both experienced a flow-like state. Climbers without disabilities reported a significantly higher sense of control, one of the nine dimensions of flow. Implications: With a better understanding of how people with physical disabilities experience flow, practitioners can better design interventions to facilitate this experience and should know how flow can best be used to promote an active leisure lifestyle.

Serious leisure and sociolinguistics: English-speaking homebrewers in South Korea and their leisure speech community

ABSTRACT Increasing global mobilities bring more non-native speakers into new countries where they face obstacles in establishing successful acculturation and leisure lifestyles. Leisure and acculturation are attracting limited research interest, but serious leisure’s role in assisting new arrivals in overcoming social and language challenges when they establish amateur, hobby or volunteer careers is unknown. This study explores that research gap by examining qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with 18 long staying English speaking professional workers who pursue hobbyist homebrewing in South Korea. Analysis revealed they experience creative fulfilment by their sharing of brewing activities with Korean family and friends and they improve social acceptance by their volunteer organising of beer tasting events with interested community members. Usefully, language contact with native speakers through all aspects of their hobby enhances their language acquisition and socialisation. Theorising from further analysis supports these rewards are taking place in a serious leisure speech community featuring brewing activity and volunteer activity spaces combined with English, Korean and blended language contact. Generalising, these findings imply that involvement with continuing leisure activities that offer possible serious leisure pathways within mixed language formats can significantly assist non-native speaking arrivals with acculturation in their new countries.

‘My mum just wants me out of the house’: the leisure lifestyles of white-working class adolescents

ABSTRACT The sports participation rates of British adults remain strongly influenced by their social class background, with those from the bottom of the social class hierarchy significantly less likely to take part in sport and/or active leisure. These trends are closely linked to the types of active leisure participation that adults engage in as young people, with those from working-class backgrounds more likely to engage in a narrower range of class-related activities in their youth, a trend that has been shown to constrain the likelihood of them participating into adulthood. One of the influences on this outcome is the way in which parental influence comes to impact upon the ways that young people from working-class families approach and engage in activities during their leisure time. In order to explore this influence, this paper examines the leisure lifestyles of white, working-class adolescent males via the use of group interviews in an attempt to explain the current and future participation of working-class male adolescents in sport and active leisure. The study utilised responses from 47 participants in Years 10 and 11 across eight focus group interviews as part of a semi-ethnographical multi-method design in a predominantly white, working-class mainstream secondary school. The results found that the participants spent significant amounts of their leisure time engaged in class-related, recreational activities within the local area alongside their peers. Linked to this was the apparent lack of formal guidance and support from their parents in relation the participants’ regular involvement in organised sporting activities. The behaviours and attitudes of these participants meant that the majority of the participants were neither inclined nor ‘set up’ to participate in the types and range of activities that may well have kept them active into and through adulthood.

Tourist Rescue in Natural Disasters

In recent years, the tourism industry has expanded rapidly and China will enter the mass tourism era comprehensively, with tourism becoming an important leisure lifestyle for people. However, natural disasters have the characteristics of high frequency, multiple types, wide distribution and large post-disaster losses, which often cause huge impact on tourism industry development. It is of great practical significance to explore the key factors for successful rescue of tourists after disasters. Taking the Wenchuan earthquake as an example, the article selects the Fuzzy Delphi Method and the Analytical Hierarchy Process as the data analysis method, and also randomly selects the local residents of 20 affected scenic spots as the research subjects. The results show that among the assessment dimensions, the most important dimension is prevention, followed by preparedness, response and recovery respectively. Meanwhile, among the 16 assessment indicators, the top five most valued indicators were regional emergency planning, management systems, prompt notification, publicity and education, training and emergency drill in order.

Advancing the association for humanistic counseling principles through the serious leisure perspective

AbstractThe serious leisure perspective (SLP) aligns with humanistic counseling principles. A most significant professional implication is that humanistic counselors can create optimal leisure lifestyle strategies linked to the AHC principles of discovering meaning and purpose, developing deep connections with people and nature, moving toward growth and change, maintaining a holistic approach to humanity, and developing creativity. Future research implications and practical steps that humanistic counselors can use in professional practice to connect the SLP to humanistic counseling principles are elucidated.

여가라이프스타일에 따른 삶의 만족도 연구: 1인 가구와 다인 가구 비교 분석

As the number of single-person households in Korea has increased rapidly, the relevant issue has been discussed in many dimensions to improve their quality of life. This study explored the differences in life satisfaction according to leisure lifestyles between single-person and multi-person households. The study also examined the influence of leisure lifestyles on life satisfaction within each group. Data was collected using an online questionnaire for 415 respondents from online survey panels(204 respondents from single-person households and 211 from multi-person households). Frequency analysis, reliability analysis, factor analysis, and multiple regression analysis were conducted to analyze the collected data. The results showed partially significant differences in leisure lifestyles and a significant difference in life satisfaction between single-person and multi-person households. The study also revealed that leisure lifestyles significantly influenced life satisfaction within each group. As a result, it is suggested that proper leisure activities and programs need to be designed and supported to make up for the inconvenience and to improve the quality of life for single-person households who reported lower levels of life satisfaction than multi-person households.

Analysis of the New Route of Brand Communication in the Post-epidemic Period -- Take the Outdoor Camping Brand TOREAD as an Example

In the post-epidemic era, the restrictions of the external business environment and the traditional communication methods of many brands have kept the brand from gaining and maintaining customers. At the same time, the communication of some "outdoor camping" brands has won the favor of more and more audiences, which hides their precise positioning for the concept of outdoor leisure lifestyle and the rise of minority cultural circles. This is exactly the opportunity for the growth of outdoor camping brands. Focusing on the local perspective, from the ups and downs of China's own outdoor camping brands, domestic local outdoor camping brands have penetrated into public life, which also represents the return of contemporary Chinese aesthetics. In the post-epidemic era, with consumption upgrading, the role of consumers has gradually changed into an important node in brand production and communication. They need to find a breathing space in their limited life. In this space, the consumer brand that best meets the audience's psychology makes them yearn for it. Based on this, brand development should be studied from the internal and external environment and consumer concepts. Nowadays, the competition of brand communication is not only the competition between products but also the development of brand communication through such countermeasures as increasing the added value of the brand, accurate positioning of the audience at all levels, and respecting the co-creation value of consumers' psychology.

밀레니얼 세대와 Z세대의 여가라이프스타일과 여가만족도에 대한 비교 연구

As the “Millennials and Generation Z”(MZ generation) have emerged as the leading players in the consumption trend, related news and research are constantly coming out with considering two generations as a single group. However, two groups contain age range from late teens to early forties. This range is various in regard to demographics such as occupation, marital status and income. Such differences can have influences on their leisure lifestyle and leisure satisfaction. This study was conducted to investigate whether “Millennials (Generation M)” and “Generation Z” have differences in their leisure lifestyle and leisure satisfaction. The study also examined the influence of leisure lifestyle on leisure satisfaction within each generation. The data was collected using online survey from 476 respondents(223 respondents of “Millennials” and 253 respondents of “Generation Z”). The collected data were analyzed by frequency analysis, reliability analysis, factor analysis, and multiple regression analysis. The results revealed that two generations had partially significant differences in their leisure lifestyle and leisure satisfaction. The study also showed that leisure lifestyle had influences on leisure satisfaction within the generation. Based on the results of this study, it is suggested to adapt a proven market segment in order to analyze accurate market trends and to apply its information in the market for effective marketing practice.

The multiple presentations of Chengdu's leisure life in <i>Xinxin News</i> advertisements from 1930 to 1949 from the perspective of historical anthropology

This study used advertisements in the Xinxin News, a daily newspaper published in the Republic of China, as its historical material, took the leisure life of modern Chengdu citizens as its research object, and applied the research paradigm of historical anthropology to observe multiple changes in the leisure life of modern Chengdu. It was shown that, on the one hand, advertisements in the newspaper motivated the leisure lifestyle of modern Chengdu citizens, on the other hand, that leisure consumption became a fashionable modern goal actively pursued by Chengdu citizens in their daily lives. This paper discussed the leisure life of modern Chengdu as revealed by advertisements in the Xinxin News and explored the changing trajectory of the social panoramas of modern Chengdu, thus showing how a landlocked city in China started to become an international city in the wave of globalisation that washed over the country.

코로나19 팬데믹 상황에서 시니어 여행제약 협상 과정 분석

The 2020 coronavirus pandemic has had a significant impact on the tourism industry as well as the lives of senior travelers. The pandemic imposed a new constraint on seniors who actively planned to travel after retirement, altering their leisure lifestyle. The goal of this research is to delve deeply into the travel constraints and negotiation process of senior travelers during the corona pandemic. In order to achieve the study's goal, in-depth interviews with 9 seniors were conducted and analyzed using the grounded theory method. The analysis produced a total of 51 concepts, 18 subcategories, and 9 categories. During the corona pandemic, the central phenomenon was the recognition of travel constraints, and action/interaction strategies included continuing to travel, engaging in existing leisure activities, and trying new leisure activities. Participants in the study who were restricted from traveling due to the pandemic experienced a positive shift in perception, allowing them to rediscover and appreciate their daily lives, and the path to pursue a leisure lifestyle was divided into travel regression, leisure regression, and leisure diversity. Based on this, a paradigm model was presented, and the core category'moving to a more advanced leisure life through negotiation of travel constraints during the COVID-19 period' was derived. This study is theoretically significant because it thoroughly examined the senior traveler's constraint negotiation process and presented a model for the new phenomenon of a pandemic. Furthermore, the research findings on negotiation strategy, negotiation influencing factors, and type classification have important implications for senior leisure and tourism policies and practices.

Optimal Leisure Lifestyle: What we need to know

Optimal Leisure Lifestyle: What we need to know Robert A. Stebbins, Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary, Canada, tells us what an optimal leisure lifestyle consists of, including finding balance in everyday living. Professor Stebbins explains that the OLL is a contextual phenomenon, where a person’s diverse work, leisure, and obligatory non-work activities are coordinated along, among others, the dimensions of time, money, and available resources.

Development of Ecological Health Tourism Products under the Background of Internet+

With the development of domestic economy and the improvement of people’s living standard, tourism has become more and more popular as a leisure lifestyle. The explosive growth of the mobile Internet has caused the problem of “information overload”. The travel recommendation system can help tourists obtain the travel information that users are interested in from the massive data. Ecological health tourism is a special tourism product with ecological environment as the background and leisure health activities as the theme. With the development of China’s urbanization and the intensification of population aging, the Chinese people’s demand for health tourism products and ecological health tourism market is becoming stronger and stronger, and the development prospect is extremely broad, but there is not much research in this field in the academic circles at present. This paper applies the Collaborative Filtering (CF) to travel recommendation to provide users with accurate travel recommendation services. However, because the traditional CF only relies on a single user’s rating data, and has its own defects, it cannot meet the complex needs of users in the tourism industry. This paper improves the traditional CF and designs and implements a tourism recommendation system on this basis. Combine Spark cloud computing platform technology and TC-Personal Rank algorithm to achieve a breakthrough in the algorithm. Through experiments, it can be found that the accuracy of product recommendation can be improved by 75.3% for the algorithm designed in this paper. Overall, the recall rate can reach 65.7%. And it can also achieve good results in recommendation satisfaction and recommendation coverage.

The relationship between dyslipidemia and inflammation among adults in east coast China: A cross-sectional study.

ObjectiveDyslipidemia is one of the major public health problems in China. It is characterized by multisystem dysregulation and inflammation, and oxidant/antioxidant balance has been suggested as an important factor for its initiation and progression. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between prevalence of dyslipidemia and measured changes in the levels of proinflammatory cytokines (IL-6, TNF-a, and MCP-1), thiobarbituric acid-reactant substances (TBARS), and serum total antioxidant capacity (TAC) in serum samples.Study designA cross-sectional survey with a purposive sampling of 2,631 enrolled participants (age 18–85 years) was performed using the adult population of long-term residents of the municipality of east coast China in Fujian province between the years 2017 and 2019. Information on general health status, dyslipidemia prevalence, and selected mediators of inflammation was collected through a two-stage probability sampling design according to socioeconomic level, sex, and age.MethodsThe lipid profile was conducted by measuring the levels of total cholesterol (TC), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and triglycerides (TG) with an autoanalyzer. Dyslipidemia was defined according to National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III diagnostic criteria, and patients with it were identified by means of a computerized database. Serum parameters including IL-6/TNF-a/MCP-1, TBARS, and TAC were measured in three consecutive years. Familial history, education level, risk factors, etc. were determined. The association between dyslipidemia and serum parameters was explored using multivariable logistic regression models. Sociodemographic, age, and risk factors were also investigated among all participants.ResultsThe mean prevalence of various dyslipidemia in the population at baseline (2017) was as follows: dyslipidemias, 28.50%; hypercholesterolemia, 26.33%; high LDL-C, 26.10%; low HDL-C, 24.44%; and hypertriglyceridemia, 27.77%. A significant effect of aging was found among all male and female participants. The mean levels of serum Il-6/TNF-a/MCP-1 were significantly higher in all the types of dyslipidemia among male participants. Female participants with all types of dyslipidemia but low HDL-C showed an elevation of IL-6 and MCP-1 levels, and those with dyslipidemias and hypercholesterolemia presented higher levels of TNF-a compared to the normal participants. The oxidative stress marker TBARS increased among all types of dyslipidemia except hypertriglyceridemia. All participants with different types of dyslipidemia had a lower total antioxidant capacity. Correlation analysis showed that cytokines and TBARS were positively associated with age, obesity, and diabetes mellitus, but not sex, sedentary leisure lifestyle, hypertension, and CVD/CHD history. The activity of TAC was negatively associated with the above parameters.ConclusionsThe correlation between the prevalence of dyslipidemia and the modification of inflammation status was statistically significant. The levels of proinflammatory cytokines, oxidative stress, and antioxidant capacity in serum may reflect the severity of the lipid abnormalities. These promising results further warrant a thorough medical screening in enhanced anti-inflammatory and reduced oxidative stress to better diagnose and comprehensively treat dyslipidemia at an early stage.

Funkkis Mökkis. Paper Huts at the 1932 Enso-Gutzeit Competition in Finland

Finland lived, in the 1920s and 1930s, through an ephemeral time of peace and enthusiastic ideas in which it began to forge itself as a modern nation. Its borders still unstable, the country used its landscape as a social unifier and an element of national identity. Finland’s incipient welfare state, institutionalised holidays and the democratised consumer goods encouraged a new leisure lifestyle in natural settings. This article studies the recreational housing programme that responded to that demand. The new typology, later called mökki in Finland, was developed during the rise of Nordic functionalism (funkkis in Finnish) – the revision of the romantic villa and the traditional rural housing model, together with the emergence of prefabrication techniques. Among the architectural competitions and drawing albums published on the subject, this article studies the competition run by the Enso-Gutzeit paper company in 1932. Other studies have analysed this competition from constructive, stylistic or historical perspectives. This paper provides a different view by explaining that the competition was a testing ground where one of modern Finnish architecture’s distinctive features was forged: tuning into a constructed idea of nature. This fact is revealed through a graphical analysis of the competition’s proposals, as well as through the incipient personal traits in the work of the promising, young Finnish architects who participated in the competition.

Стили жизни калининградской молодежи

Based on an analysis of leisure and consumer practices of students of two leading Kaliningrad universities, this paper attempts to reconstruct the actual space of Kaliningrad youth lifestyles, as well as to identify and describe groups following these lifestyles in socio-­economic and demographic terms. Five style groups are identified: the party people who prefer to spend their free time in bars and clubs; the hipsters who frequent theatres and lecture halls, whilst being staunch upholders of the consumerist culture promoted via social media; the ‘normal’ young people choosing physical exercise and standard weekend leisure activities; the young adults combining Soviet leisure heritage with creative and do-it-yourself practices; the homebodies opting for stay-at-home entertainment. Drawing on the discussion about the significance of lifestyle for modern society, the author concludes that lifestyles do not replace the usual socio-­economic stratification markers, and their capacity to differentiate youth groups with unequal access to economic and cultural resources of youth is also limited. Youth leisure lifestyles form an independent system of stratification, which partially coincides with existing social boundaries and partially overlaps with them. The main dividing line runs between the young people who can afford to choose from a ‘supermarket of styles’ and those deprived of such an opportunity.

Tools of Creating Emotional Climate in Knowledge-Based Television Space

The relevance of the article is due to the need to comprehend and identify the specifics of the formation of emotional mood in modern knowledge-based TV texts of an advisory nature. It will make possible to better understand the specifics of educational genres. The purpose of the work is to establish and describe the repertoire of tools for the formation of emotional mood and linguistic means of their representation in a knowledge-based television discourse. The research material was TV broadcasts of thematic groups as follows: leisure, health and healthy lifestyle, home improvement, food, driving, beauty and fashion. The corpus of the texts under analysis is represented by advisory-instructive and informative-demonstrative genres. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that in the texts that broadcast everyday, practical knowledge, tools are recorded and described that simulate the emotional mood of the viewer in the process of learning process. The research reveals that the textual representatives of the advisory and instructive genres of relaxation and hedonistic themes construct an impressions and pleasure zone. At the same time, the accents of texts describing ways of behavior in danger-associated situations (for example, health topics) are focused on regulating the mood and emotions of the media audience. Such texts are constructed based on an emotionally sensual modality that swings the viewer's emotions from negative to positive. The formation of such a diverse emotional tone is aimed at creating a positive attitude towards specific health improvement actions, as well as encouraging adherence to the rules of a healthy lifestyle in society. The article describes the triggers that produce positive and negative emotions, as well as tools for their activation in the text (the image of the author and the image of the addressee; genres of everyday communication, designed in a friendly-informal register; linguistic means). The research reveals functions of impression producing (attracting attention, positive emotional modeling, formation of a positive attitude to the object of expression and persuasive influence) and regulation of emotional mood (socially stabilizing, regulation of behavior, persuasive influence).

Leisure Lifestyle and Fashion Consumption Survey of Baby Boomer Women in Changwon City

This study used a questionnaire survey to investigate the leisure lifestyle and fashion consumption of Korean women in the baby boomers generation (born from 1955 to 1963) living in Changwon city. The Survey period was from October 23 to December 5, 2020. The questionnaire items asked about demographic characteristics, interested in leisure lifestyle, fashion consciousness, and fashion consumption. Data from 250 respondents were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics26 to identify the mean, standard deviation, and frequency of the item responses, which were given on a 5-point scale. The participants were involved in economic activity and have a high level of education. They reported having active lifestyle in sports, religious, and social gatherings. The main survey results are as follows; First, many participants were active in economic activities, and their leisure activities were characterized by a high proportion of health-related outdoor activities such as walking, trekking, and mountain climbing. Second, they were more likely to make purchases in-person than online i.e., the number of fashion product purchases made through the Internet and mobile phones was very low. Third, although the women were passive in following and expressing themselves in fashion, they show a conservative tendency due to the large influence of purchases made on the advice of family and acquaintances. Fourth, they considered practicality and quality very important when purchasing clothes. The survey results are expected to help the fashion industries with production planning and to contribute to local research on Korean active senior women.