Leisure Perspectives Research Articles

Investigation of the Relationship Between Individuals’ Authenticity, Self-Esteem, and Serious Leisure Perspectives of Individuals Participating in Leisure Activities

Investigation of the Relationship Between Individuals’ Authenticity, Self-Esteem, and Serious Leisure Perspectives of Individuals Participating in Leisure Activities

Serious Leisure Perspectives in Sports: Professional Athletes’ Career Progress via Serious Leisure

The aim of this study is to determine serious leisure perspectives of professional athletes. 689 athletes selected through random sampling participated in the study. The data were collected with the “Serious Leisure Inventory and Measure (Short Form) (SLIM)’’, developed by Gould et al. (2011) adapted to Turkish by Ozdemir, Ayyıldız Durhan, and Akgül (2020) which consisting of 12 items and 3 sub-dimensions. It was determined that the data were not distributed homogeneously and non parametric tests were applied. In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics, Man Whitney U, Kruskall Wallis, Tukey (HSD-LSD) and Pearson Correlation test were used for within-group comparisons. In this study, total internal reliability coefficient of SLIM (short form) scale was determined as .93. Participants had higher SLIM scores (89,60 ± 15,76), the highest subscale score was ‘’identification with pursuit and social outcomes’’ sub-dimension (37,39 ± 7,35), and the lowest subscale score was ‘’individual outcomes’’ (22,30 ± 4,39). Significant relationships and differences were found among the variables of gender, sports, age of athletics, number of trainings per week, participation status of international competitions, perceived challenge of duties, perceived skill development and perceived total development. As a result of the research, it was determined that professional athletes had high serious leisure perspectives and this situation being in interaction with certain variables.

Capitalizing on a “Huge Resource”: Successful Aging and Physically Active Leisure Perspectives from Older Males

A major concern in the context of aging populations is improving patterns of active leisure involvement. However, there is insufficient knowledge pertaining to the relationship between successful aging and active leisure. Preliminary evidence indicates older Canadian women have varying beliefs about the ways they can age successfully and the role physical activity may have in this process. To more fully inform health promotion initiatives, the current study explored the related perspectives of 19 older Canadian men (75–90 years of age) who varied in their level of physical activity involvement. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed through the use of standard coding and comparison procedures. Overall, older men appeared to also use multiple perspectives to frame the intersection of successful aging and physically active leisure. Researchers, practitioners, and policy makers should be aware of these nuances so that aging-related programs and policies may be tailored accordingly.

Is BDSM a Sexual Orientation or Serious Leisure?

This review summarizes recent empirical and theoretical scholarship pertaining to two primary ways that BDSM is conceptualized, specifically as a unique sexual orientation or as a form of leisure experience. This review helps clinicians understand how BDSM is currently positioned by scholars and by some within the BDSM community. Recent studies have found strong support for both the sexual orientation and leisure perspectives, distinctly. The sexual orientation approach currently focuses on a somewhat narrow segment of highly invested BDSM participants, while the leisure approach accounts for a broad range of diverse participation and experience. BDSM can be understood as both an orientation and as leisure for many but not all participants. Both perspectives share the same underlying multidisciplinary substrate. Although the emphases of the orientation and leisure approaches are different to some degree, the sexual orientation perspective (OP) and the serious leisure perspective (SLP) seem to account equally well for sexual identity centered on BDSM. Understanding both perspectives provides a more complete understanding of the variation and complexity of BDSM.

The information seeking and use behaviors of retired investors

This exploratory study examines the information seeking and use behaviors of a group of US retired or near-retirement investors from everyday life information seeking and serious leisure perspectives. Although primarily qualitative, it also collects and analyzes quanitative data to describe retired investors’ information preferences and use. Semi-structured interviews and journaling are used to examine the information seeking behaviors of a diverse group of investors and to assess the impact that personal characteristics, such as sex, socio-economic status, and educational attainment have on their behaviors. Findings suggest that the female investors studied were less likely to create information intensive fields and that this tendency is exacerbated by low educational attainment. Furthermore, the male investors studied were more likely to adopt Internet technology for their investing information seeking regardless of their educational attainment. Recommendations are made for improving information services to this important segment of the population.

Segmenting indigenous tourists from a serious leisure perspective

Cultural resources are the essence of indigenous tourism. Tourist’s sincere attitudes toward indigenous culture are critical to successfully manage and develop indigenous tourism. This study proposes examining the seriousness of tourists toward indigenous tourism to better explore the distinguishing and meaningful subgroups of indigenous tourists. Based on the ‘serious leisure perspectives’ (SLPs), this study first developed a measurement of seriousness toward indigenous tourism and applied it to further segmentation analysis. Study results indicate that indigenous tourists can be divided into three segments: ‘expert’, who are driven by a serious leisure interest (indigenous culture); ‘interested’, who are curious about indigenous appeals; and ‘apathetic’ type, who are not interested in aboriginal culture at all. These three segments differ significantly in terms of marital status, travel motives, and preferences for culture-based tourism product. Managerial implications are drawn based on the nature of SIT and their differences among segments. Finally, this study discusses the application of SLP to indigenous tourism.

How Do Playful People Play? Gendered and Racial Leisure Perspectives, Motives, and Preferences of College Students

Playfulness is an aspect of personality that predisposes individuals to reframe boring situations into more amusing ones for themselves. This study extends knowledge about the playfulness construct by contrasting college students who were high or low in playfulness relative to the activity preferences they make, the motives they have, and their perspectives on their leisure time. Significant differences were found in perspectives and motives but not in activity preferences, leading to the conclusion that playfulness relates more to how individuals view their leisure and what they seek than in what they do. Only minor differences due to gender or race were observed.

Motivated for leisure in the future: A person-centred longitudinal study in the lowest level of secondary education

Long-term future time perspective on leisure has been found to relate negatively to school effort. This was studied further by recognizing types of students based on developments in long-term leisure perspectives and comparing their development in motivation and academic achievement. Around 1200 12–13 year old students attending the lowest level of secondary education in the Netherlands participated in the research. Questionnaires were administered four times during a year and report marks were collected. We distinguished three groups of students: a small group with low and slightly decreasing, a group with intermediate and slightly decreasing; and a group with quite high and increasing long-term leisure perspectives. We expected the last group, which contained almost half of the students, to be problematic, and indeed these students less often resisted leisure opportunities in favour of pursuing chosen important academic future goals. Nevertheless, they had a more positive development in well-being.

Personal Projects of Boys with Developmental Coordination Disorder

Understanding the leisure perspectives of preadolescent boys with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) requires more than documenting time-use patterns. This study explored the use of the Personal Projects Analysis for Children (PPA-C) to improve depth of understanding about personally meaningful leisure participation for this population. Sixty boys with DCD and 113 boys without DCD completed the PPA-C. Boys with DCD reported significantly fewer personal projects involving physical activities; fewer friends with whom to complete personal projects; more solitary leisure projects; and fewer personally meaningful personal projects in total than the comparison group. The PPA-C findings provided ecologically sensitive and personally salient information about leisure time participation from the perspectives of boys with and without DCD. The low frequency of self-reported social and physical activity personal projects for boys with DCD has not been previously detailed in this way. Occupational therapists are challenged to be vigilant regarding restricted leisure portfolios and expectations about activity participation in boys with DCD, with further research and advocacy for balanced portfolios of personally meaningful leisure.

Australian Family Leisure: Modelling parent and youth data

The purpose of this study was to test a recently developed broad structural model which examines the relationships between family leisure involvement, family functioning, family communication, family leisure satisfaction, and satisfaction with family life among a large sample of families from Australia (n = 1014). Participating families provided responses to family variables from both a parent (n = 902) and an adolescent child (n = 810) in the household. Structural equation modelling was employed and the fit indices from the parent and youth structural equation models were quite similar to each other, with both exhibiting a reasonable fit of the data. This study provides some insight into Australian family leisure perspectives and assists in providing a more global view of family leisure constructs. Implications, limitations, and recommendations are discussed.

DEVELOPMENTAL ADVISING THROUGH LIFE ROLES

Expanding developmental advising through life roles offers the opportunity for advising to realize its potential as a developmental and integrating force in higher education. The author suggests a model for moving into these life roles as well as ideas for academic advisors to use in incorporating leisure and leadership perspectives into their advising.