Leisure Life Research Articles

The role of microboards in enhancing quality of life for children with intellectual disability and their families

AbstractDisability support systems have not consistently used family‐centered practices when supporting families of children with disability. Families have experienced structural and interpersonal barriers that have negatively impacted not only their child's quality of life, but also family quality of life (FQOL). The eight domains of QOL as defined by the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities [IASSID] are reflected in a family‐centered model of support developed for children and young people by Microboards Australia. The Microboards for Children [MB4C] model reflects best family centered practice based on principles that integrate well with recognised FQOL domains such as family relationships, support from other people and from disability‐related services, and leisure and enjoyment of life. The MB4C model aims to enhance families’ knowledge, skills, confidence, and sense of wellbeing to support them develop a vision for an active, socially connected, and happy future with their child. The model consists of a structured network of formal and informal support to enhance not only their child or young person's personal relationships, social networks, and community inclusion but also to enable parents and siblings to access education, employment and to enjoy life in their community – all indicators of FQOL. In this paper we explore how these features of MB4C policies and practice align with family‐centered practice principles and with FQOL domains. We argue that the MB4C model provides an example of how FQOL may be enhanced by a holistic family‐centered disability service system that works in partnership with families with disability.

시니어와 청년의 여가 격차 분석

In an egalitarian society, everyone should be provided with an environment where they can freely enjoy their leisure time and satisfy their leisure needs. However, in reality, the leisure environment for each individual is not equal, resulting in a leisure gap. While leisure utilization is a crucial issue for seniors who have relatively more leisure time, they are known to have lower leisure utilization abilities, leading to a significant leisure gap between seniors and other generations. The purpose of this study is to closely examine the current status of the leisure gap between seniors and youths and demonstrate the leisure disparities. To achieve this, a mixed research method was employed by utilizing the National Survey on Leisure Activities and senior focus group interviews. The analysis of the National Survey on Leisure Activities revealed leisure gaps in nine categories: leisure diversity, leisure cost, leisure time, public leisure resources perception, digital leisure activities, leisure perception, leisure satisfaction, leisure purpose, and leisure activity types. The results of a cross-generational comparative analysis on the factors influencing overall leisure life satisfaction, with the influences of education and income being controlled, revealed a total of 5 common determinants: perceived importance of leisure, sufficiency of leisure time, diversity of leisure activities, sufficiency of information about public leisure programs, and sufficiency of leisure costs. Furthermore, it was confirmed that leisure perception had the greatest impact on seniors' leisure satisfaction, and leisure cost had more influence than leisure time. Suggestions for resolving senior leisure disparities were provided, along with academic and practical implications.

Understanding Boredom and Leisure in Later Life: A Systematic Review.

Anecdotal evidence and references to boredom appear frequently in mass media, but only a few studies directly examine the phenomenon of boredom, and existing literature within the context of leisure has primarily focused on adolescents. Social isolation and loneliness often intertwine with boredom, and chronic conditions are major factors that increase the risk of experiencing boredom in later life. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to examine the significance of boredom among older adults and assess the existing literature to gain a more holistic understanding of boredom and how it has been studied among older adults in the context of leisure. Following the PRISMA guidelines, this study gathered literature from 5 electronic databases through December 2022. This systematic review investigated both qualitative and quantitative evidence, and standardized data extraction and study quality assessments were conducted. A comprehensive search initially revealed 2,757 potentially relevant articles, 8 of which met the full inclusion criteria. Three studies investigated the phenomenon of leisure-boredom, and 5 studies assessed the experience of boredom in general and its relationship with leisure engagement. A majority of the studies, especially ones that examined older adults' experience of overall boredom experience, lacked a thorough description of the phenomenon and did not use reliable and/or valid measurements. Findings from 8 articles offer insights into boredom; however, the discussion examines the limitations of these studies and reasons why studying boredom is important. We also speculate as to why little research has addressed leisure boredom among older adults and propose a research agenda for increasing our understanding of the ways older adults experience boredom, the effects boredom has on health and well-being, and how boredom can be alleviated and/or managed in the context of leisure.

장애인을 돌보는 가구주의 자살생각에 미치는 영향요인

Heads of households who take care of disabled people experience negative prejudice from society along with physical, mental, social and economic burdens throughout their lives. It has been reported that household heads with disabilities who are living with these difficulties are showing up to suicide as a solution to mental problems. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the factors influencing suicidal ideation of household heads with disabilities. For multilateral analysis, it was classified into personal, psychological, and social factors. Therefore, this study set subjective health status and relationship with the disabled as personal factors, depression, self-esteem, and leisure life satisfaction as psychological factors, and the impact of disability on life, disability-related experience, and family strength as social factors. The purpose of this study is to identify the influencing factors on the relationship between the main variables and suicidal ideation. The purpose of this study is to measure the degree of the relationship with suicidal ideation and to identify the factors affecting them through various variables. The data of this study is a secondary data analysis study using raw data from the second panel survey on disabled people's lives, and real numbers and percentages, Chi-Square test, t-test, and logistic regression analysis were performed. As a result of the study, it was found that the level of depression (2.6 times) and the degree of relationship with the disabled (1.73 times) were higher among those who thought about suicide compared to those who did not think of suicide, while the self-esteem (.33 times) and family strengths (.63 times), subjective health status (.45 times), and leisure life satisfaction (.66 times) were low. Based on the above results, it was found that the suicidal ideation of the head of a disabled householder is affected by depression, relationship with the disabled, self-esteem, family health, subjective health status, and leisure life satisfaction. Among the major variables, the most influential variable are depression, the degree of relationship with the disabled, so it is necessary to develop a suicide prevention program for the disabled family using this and to mediate and apply it.

Development of a prediction model for the depression level of the elderly in low-income households: using decision trees, logistic regression, neural networks, and random forest

Korea is showing the fastest trend in the world in population aging; there is a high interest in the elderly population nationwide. Among the common chronic diseases, the elderly tends to have a high incidence of depression. That said, it has been vital to focus on preventing depression in the elderly in advance. Hence, this study aims to select the factors related to depression in low-income seniors identified in previous studies and to develop a prediction model. In this study, 2975 elderly people from low-income families were extracted using the 13th-year data of the Korea Welfare Panel Study (2018). Decision trees, logistic regression, neural networks, and random forest were applied to develop a predictive model among the numerous data mining techniques. In addition, the wrapper’s stepwise backward elimination, which finds the optimal model by removing the least relevant factors, was applied. The evaluation of the model was confirmed via accuracy. It was verified that the final prediction model, in the case of a decision tree, showed the highest predictive power with an accuracy of 97.3%. Second, psychological factors, leisure life satisfaction, social support, subjective health awareness, and family support ranked higher than demographic factors influencing depression. Based on the results, an approach focused on psychological support is much needed to manage depression in low-income seniors. As predicting depression in the elderly varies on numerous influencing factors, using a decision tree may be beneficial to establish a firm prediction model to identify vital factors causing depression in the elderly population.

Unequal or unavailable: gender, leisure and quality of life of refugees in Turkey

ABSTRACT Leisure has proved to be a significant contributor to quality of life (QOL). In the refugee context, however, a literature review shows a gap in understanding refugees’ perceived availability and leisure contribution to QOL. Moreover, there are differences between men’s and women’s perceptions of leisure participation and availability. This study explored the differences between men and women refugees’ leisure participation as well as gender differences in perceived QOL among the refugee population in Turkey. A sample of 203 refugees completed a multi-language online survey. Refugees’ perceptions of different dimensions of leisure (i.e. active, passive, and social) and QOL (i.e. physical, psychological, social, and environmental) were compared across genders. Results revealed a significant difference between the psychological QOL of men and women. Neither leisure participation nor leisure availability showed significant differences between men and women. Both groups reported relatively poor availability of leisure. Their participation level was also reported below par.

Further towards the right to ‘safe leisure’: a case study of the Council of Europe’s 2016 Saint-Denis Convention

ABSTRACT In the context of the right to leisure – enshrined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) – this article addresses how the Council of Europe’s (2016) Convention on an ‘Integrated Safety, Security and Service Approach at Football Matches and Other Sports Events’ (‘Saint-Denis Convention’) provides a legal pathway towards what we conceptualize here as the right to ‘safe leisure’. This right to ‘safe leisure’, we locate within broader right to leisure discourses which this article reconsiders. We contend that the Convention has wider ramifications for the intersection between human rights and leisure and that the Convention’s potential resides in the fact that it enhances the existing and orthodox conceptualizations of leisure. Following an unpacking and operationalization of the right to leisure, this conceptual article then showcases how the 2016 Convention enshrines distinct duties and obligations which establish a clear right to ‘safe leisure’ within a significant realm of leisure life.

A Life of Leisure? Investigating the Differential Impact of Retirement on Leisure Activity.

Remaining active in older adulthood is widely endorsed by governments and policy-makers as a way of promoting public health and curbing welfare spending. Despite links between greater leisure activity in older adulthood and better health, cognitive function, and subjective well-being, there is a dearth of research investigating the impact of retirement on leisure activity engagement. Therefore, the primary goal of this study is to address this knowledge gap and investigate the impact of retirement on leisure activity engagement. Using panel data from 2 waves of a large-scale longitudinal survey of Dutch older workers (N = 4,927), we investigated the impact of retirement on hours spent engaging in physical, social, and self-development activities. We further investigated the differential impact of retirement on leisure activity in retirement based on various sociodemographic characteristics. Although leisure activity increased across all 3 activity domains, conditional change ordinal least square regression models revealed that retirement resulted in significantly greater increases in activity relative to nonretirees. Additional analyses including interaction terms revealed that the impact of retirement on self-development and social activity differed significantly based on gender and education. Our study demonstrates that while time in leisure activity largely increases in response to retirement the nature and magnitude of the impact of retirement on leisure activity is not uniform. From a policy perspective, findings that certain groups, namely men and lower--educated individuals, may be at greater risk of lower activity levels may help guide interventions promoting active aging and retirement.

Photography and Early Motor Touring in Britain

This article explores the arrival of the motorcar in Britain as it polarised photographers’ opinions like no other means of transport before. The article asks, more specifically, why those photographers who came from the experience of cycling believed that the new transport technology hindered the practices of observation that they treasured and, relatedly, how the use that the motorists made of the camera ushered in a new way of being modern. It does so by reconstructing the impact that the new material and social experiences triggered by motoring, together with the visual culture that accompanied its popularisation, had in shaping the automobile’s relationship with photography. The article argues that photographers’ conflicted attitudes towards the role that the motorcar played in their leisure lives is reflected in a tension between established and emerging machine-driven visual epistemologies at the beginning of the twentieth century.

탄소중립도시 실현을 위한 민관협력형 그린인프라 운영사례 연구

This study examines the operation case of public-private cooperative greeninfrastructure to realize a carbon-neutral city. The research site is Seoullo 7017, located in Seoul, South Korea, and the research period is from May 2017 ~ May 2019. The research method was based on observational surveys and literature research, and analyzed data were from the Seoul Information Communication Plaza. There were three types of public-private cooperative greeninfrastructure operations: resourcecentered- public&public cooperation, social problem solving-foundation cooperation, and technologybased - enterprise cooperation. And there were four types of analysis frameworks: greenhouse gas reduction, green growth, improvement of leisure quality of life, and community innovationAs a result of the research, public-private cooperation for the realization of a carbon-neutral city had common results in four aspects: greenhouse gas reduction, green growth, improvement of leisure quality of life, and community innovation. However, the improvement of the quality of leisure life and community innovation differed according to the type of public-private cooperation, which showed that the participation of various public-private cooperation actors improved the quality of life of various members of society and influenced innovation in local communities. Therefore, in order to realize a carbon-neutral city and increase sustainability, a customized public-private cooperation model is needed that considers its goals and targets is needed and it is necessary to discover various contents for this.

노인의 죽음불안이 삶의 질에 미치는 영향 연구

The purpose of this study is to find out the moderating effect of leisure activities in the effect of death anxiety of the elderly on the quality of life. To verify this, the hierarchical regression analysis method using the hierarchical analysis of the SPSS 20 statistical package program was used as the analysis data answered by 345 elderly people. In addition, in order to confirm the significance of the effect of the interaction, it was confirmed by the slope and intersection through the chart function of the generalized linear model. The study results showed that, first, the correlation between leisure life and quality of life was a statistically significant positive correlation. Death anxiety and leisure life, quality of life, and death anxiety all showed statistically significant negative correlation. Second, in the relationship between death anxiety and quality of life of the elderly, the interaction variable between death anxiety and leisure life was statistically significant, confirming the moderating effect of the interaction variable. Third, in the relationship between the elderly's fear and quality of life, the interaction variable between fear and leisure life was statistically significant, confirming the moderating effect of the interaction variable. This confirms that leisure activities play a controlling role in the relationship between death anxiety and quality of life of the elderly. Therefore, in this study, suggestions were made to improve the quality of life and buffer death anxiety through leisure activities of the elderly.

시멘틱 네트워크 분석을 통한 김포 아라마리나 담론 탐색 연구

Leisure activities have naturally increased as the desire for leisure life has increased since the transition to a five-day workweek. In particular, due to the geographical characteristics of Korea, which is a sea on three sides, interest and use of marine tourism and marine leisure sports have also increased. Marine leisure sports include yachts, boats, and surfing, and the importance of the marina is growing as a major space for enjoying marine leisure sports. With the opening of the Gyeongin Ara Waterway in April 2012, Gimpo Ara Marina, the largest marina facility in the Seoul metropolitan area, began operation in connection with this. Gimpo Ara Marina became a complex marine leisure space formed along the waterway of the Ara Waterway linking the West Sea to the Han River. This research was conducted on unstructured big data extracted from social media to explore the discourse of Gimpo Ara Marina. In addition, frequency analysis, centrality analysis, and CONCOR analysis were performed step by step to derive the results of the in-depth keyword cluster. As a result of the study, keywords such as Gimpo, hotel, hosting, Gyeonggi-do, Gyeonggi International Boat Show, yacht, and events showed a high frequency of appearance. Second, keywords such as boats, leisure, festivals, tourism, and marine leisure showed high centrality results according to the results of the implementation of centrality. Third, as a result of the CONCOR analysis, a total of five clusters were formed. The community was identified as an exhibition of marine leisure industries, major festivals, promotion of marine leisure content, and accommodations nearby. Based on the results of these studies, practical implications that can be applied to the Marina industry in the future and theoretical implications that can be applied to academia were derived.

A ‘cannibalised’ cricket event? Mediatisation, innovation and The Hundred

ABSTRACT Attending and consuming events are integral to many peoples’ leisure lives. However, as the literature attests, events represent significant sites of contestation over who does and does not belong. This paper explores such contestation in the notoriously elitist and traditionally exclusionary sport of cricket, and specifically The Hundred; the most recent attempt to democratise the sport by appealing to a more demographically diverse spectator base. It uniquely blends extensive semi-structured interviews with stakeholders (n = 33), and a synthesised theoretical framework of mediatisation, media events and digital leisure studies, to argue that the apparent success of The Hundred in attracting and including new audiences has been enabled by incorporating elements of media spectacle. We therefore, use The Hundred to further delineate the processes described in the extant literature, and extend analysis of the ‘digital turn’, by drawing attention to the tensions between the speed and trajectory of these developments and the constraints imposed by cricket’s history. We illustrate how digital and analogue leisure remain highly interdependent, and argue that the ongoing contestation of game forms championed by different cricket stakeholders makes it improbable that The Hundred can achieve its twin goals of being economically viable, while increasing the popularity and, ultimately survival, of other cricket formats.

Leisure, Employment, Community Participation, and Quality of Life in Primary Caregivers of Autistic Children: A Qualitative Study

PurposeIn prioritising the needs of their autistic children, parents often modify their own participation across leisure, social, and workforce activities. Few studies have examined the impact these modifications have on caregiver quality of life (QoL). The aim in the current study was to examine how parenting their autistic child/ren impacts parent’s participation and QoL.MethodsTwenty primary caregivers (29–48 years, all female) of autistic children (7–11 years) were interviewed online about their participation in leisure, community, and employment activities including the impact of COVID-19.ResultsFive themes with underlying subthemes were identified using reflexive thematic analysis. The themes were: (1) Reflecting on the important things in life, (2) Getting access to everything needed, (3) Barriers to participation in meaningful activities, (4) Facilitators of participation in meaningful activities, and (5) Participation through the COVID-19 pandemic.ConclusionThe findings highlight the importance of regular participation in meaningful activities for parents of autistic children and the support needed by them, particularly single parents, to achieve balance between meeting caring responsibilities and their own participation needs.

Happy city for everyone: Generational differences in rural migrant workers’ leisure in urban China

Everyday leisure creates opportunities for migrant–local encounters and these encounters play important roles in urban migrants’ lives as they further their integration into the city. However, migrant workers are not homogeneous, with prominent identifiable differences between generations. This current paper analyses migrant workers’ leisure patterns and constraints in Guangzhou, China, with a particular focus on generational differences. Based on survey data collected in 2018, we have identified three leisure patterns, namely Transformed (i.e., higher leisure consumption and longer travelled distance for leisure), Prolonged (i.e., longer leisure time) and Traditional (i.e., lower leisure consumption, shorter leisure time and shorter travelled distance). In addition, significant generational differences are observed: first, while the Transformed Pattern is predisposed to be the new generation’s choice, almost half of the first generation retains the Traditional pattern; second, the first generation tends to report more substantial leisure constraints subjectively, but their leisure patterns are contrarily more affected by objective constraint indicators, such as gender, working hours, living with family members and residential location. The new generation is more influenced by subjective constraint indicators such as their attitude towards leisure, lack of like-minded companions or mobility choices. This study contributes to the extant literature by offering a typology of leisure patterns considering multiple dimensions of leisure behaviours, and further revealing the diversification of migrant workers’ leisure life in the dynamic urban context. Findings suggest that the two generations may value leisure differently, indicating inevitable lifestyle changes of the newcomers in Chinese cities. Our findings may also provide some suggestions for policymakers.

Therapeutische Schutzverbandskontaktlinsen bei Blepharophimose-Ptosis- Epicanthus-inversus-Syndrom

Purpose. The case report describes the fitting of bandage contact lenses for bilateral severe visual impairment, severe ocular pain and glare sensitivity and the rehabilitative effect on the life of the affected patient. Material and Methods. Structured fitting of silicone hydro- gel bandage contact lenses and visual rehabilitation in a 49-year-old female patient with bilateral blepharophimo- sis-ptosis-epicanthus-inversus syndrome (BPES) and neu- trophilic ulceration bilaterally, as a result of lagophthalmos in marked incomplete blink OD and nearly inactive eyelids OS and bilateral ptosis. Results. By means of structured and targeted fitting of phys- iologically acceptable bandage contact lenses in continuous wear modality, almost all limiting visual and pathophysiological symptoms of the patient such as glare sensitivity and pain could be eliminated. The corrected visual acuity could be increased from light perception to 1.0−2. The patient again participates regularly in normal work and leisure life and is fully reintegrated into society. Conclusion. Bandage contact lenses are used in daily clinical practice. A goal oriented fitting procedure often allows a com- plete visual and social rehabilitation even in severe cases. The field of application is multifarious, and the patients concerned are very grateful for the rapid and uncomplicated help. Keywords blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus-inversus syndrome, bandage contact lens, rehabilitation

Kindergarten Teachers' Quality of Work Life in China: A National Empirical Study.

Kindergarten teachers' quality of work life (QWL) is of great significance in ensuring teacher stability, improvement in education quality, and the development of education. This study used the newly developed and validated tool, the QWL scale for kindergarten teachers (QWLSKT) to investigate QWL among kindergarten teachers in China. The participants comprised 936 kindergarten teachers. Psychometric results showed that the QWLSKT is a reliable and effective scale across six dimensions: health status, interpersonal relationships, working conditions, professional growth, participation in decision making, and leisure life. The Chinese teachers' evaluation of their professional growth was positive, while their evaluation of their working conditions was negative. Latent profile analysis results showed that a three-profile model had the best fitting model, comprising low, middle, and high profiles in relation to low, medium, or high scale scores, respectively. Finally, the results of hierarchical regression analysis showed that the educational level and establishment of kindergarten teachers, as well as the quality level of kindergartens and their regions, play an important role in the QWL of kindergarten teachers. The results showed that more effective policy and management strategies are needed to improve QWL among kindergarten teachers in China.

The Wind River Scribe: Grace Darling Wetherbee Coolidge and Her Teepee Neighbors

Grace Darling Wetherbee Coolidge’s 1917 book Teepee Neighbors is a little-known collection of twenty-nine sketches of Indian life on the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, where she worked as a missionary from 1902 to 1910. Only recently have Coolidge’s personal papers been made publicly available by the Pioneers Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado, allowing scholars to investigate the true contours of her life for the first time. These primary source materials shed new light on a woman who—though born to great privilege in New York City—rejected a life of leisure and wealth in favor of a subsistence existence on a remote Indian reservation, devoted to charitable acts. This paper offers the first accurate essay-length biographical treatment of Grace Coolidge. It as well analyzes selections of her Teepee Neighbors as an attempt to generate sympathy among white readers for a colonized people, the Arapaho, and to offer a critique of Euro-American society from the standpoint of the communal Indian values she encountered at Wind River. Coolidge’s project, however, is ultimately hampered by her own ethnocentrism and admitted inability to understand Indian cultures.

코로나19(COVID-19) 장기화로 인한 대학생의 피로, 우울, 삶의 질이 여가만족도에 미치는 영향

Objectives This study attempted to understand the relationship between fatigue, depression, quality of life, and leisure satisfaction of college students due to the prolonged COVID-19, and to understand the factors affecting leisure satisfaction.
 Methods The convenience was extracted from college students who experienced more than one semester of non- face-to-face online lectures among 130 college students enrolled in 4-year colleges in C province. Data collection was conducted from June 1st to June 14th, 2021 and the non-face-to-face URL questionnaire was used for the collection. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS 19.0 program for the mean and standard deviation, Pearson correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression.
 Results The leisure satisfaction of college students due to the prolonged COVID-19 has a positive(+)correlation with depression, negative correlation, and quality of life, and the higher the leisure satisfaction, the lower the depression and the higher the quality of life. In addition, as a result of analyzing the factors influencing college students' fatigue, depression, and quality of life on leisure satisfaction, fatigue and depression had no significant effect, and quality of life had a significant effect on leisure satisfaction, and the explanatory power of the model was 46%.
 Conclusions The purposes of this study were to identify the degree of fatigue, depression, and quality of life of college students, and to identify leisure satisfaction according to the variation of the subjects, and to provide basic data for college students to lead their daily and leisure lives and improve mental health in a pandemic situation.

Leisure and meaning in life.

How people engage in leisure is an important but frequently underappreciated aspect of meaning in life. Leisure activities range from highly engaging and meaningful to subjectively trivial. Leisure itself is largely defined by meaning: The essence of leisure lies less in the specific activity than in the subjective perception of freedom, choice, and intrinsic motivation. People desire their lives to be meaningful, and leisure activities offer varying degrees of satisfying the basic needs for meaning (here covered as purpose, value, efficacy, and self-worth). Leisure activities vary along multiple conceptual dimensions, such as active vs. passive, seeking vs. escaping, solitary vs. interpersonal, and we consider the implications of these for meaningfulness. The most common leisure activity in modern society, watching television, encapsulates some of the paradoxes of leisure and meaningfulness. The study of how leisure enhances meaning in life is rich and ripe for future research.