Leisure Preferences Research Articles

Comparative Study of Physical Activity, Leisure Preferences, and Sedentary Behavior among Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish University Students.

The objective of this study is to describe and compare the levels of physical activity, preferences for leisure-time physical activity, and the frequency of non-sedentary behaviors of Portuguese, Italian, and Spanish students attending higher education. A total of 1354 students (21.2 ± 2.9 years) participated in the study, with data collected through an online questionnaire for 6 months. The highest levels of sedentary behavior are found among Spanish students, followed by the Portuguese, and lastly the Italians. In relation to physical activity levels, Spanish students perform more low and moderate physical activity, while Italian students perform more vigorous activities and naturally have a lower level of sedentary behavior. However, it is worth highlighting that students from all three countries reach the minimum levels of physical activity recommended by the WHO.

Impact of over-the-top video providers on viewing satisfaction and its effect on watching a movie in cinema: Bridging preferences and challenges

Netflix, Disney Hotstar, Amazon Prime, and VIU are projected to abolish cinema due to fierce competition. Traditional cinema businessmen blame the COVID-19 pandemic for exacerbating cinema's collapse. Streaming services are more like websites than TV and movie theatres in terms of distribution and accessibility. Streaming platforms provide users more control over content selection and consumption, changing how they watch TV and films. This study compares OTT video provider viewing pleasure to cinema viewing satisfaction. Satisfaction is essential to understanding customer decisions and entertainment. Analysing and comparing both mediums' satisfaction levels will reveal what influences viewers' tastes and entertainment choices. This survey-based investigation was quantitative. OTT users and cinemagoers in Greater Jakarta (Jakarta-Bogor-Depok-Tangerang-Bekasi) were surveyed. June 2024's survey. This study compares OTT and cinema viewing satisfaction. 148 respondents were used in this investigation. This study sheds light on the changing dynamics between OTT video providers and traditional cinema experiences. The research will also help industry practitioners understand viewers' preferences and optimise their offers to increase satisfaction and competitiveness. This study compares OTT video providers' viewing satisfaction to cinema experiences to better understand viewers' leisure preferences. The findings will help industry players decide on content generation, distribution, and user experience improvements. This study contributes to the discussion over entertainment consumption's future and customer pleasure.

Staff Perceptions of Implementing a Person-Centered Communication Tool in the Nursing Home Setting: PAL Cards.

To understand direct care workers' perceptions of the impact of implementing a person-centered communication tool, Preference for Activity and Leisure (PAL) Cards, into care. PAL Cards provide at-a-glance information about a nursing home (NH) resident's background and important preferences for activities and leisure. As a quality improvement project, 11 NHs implemented use of PAL Cards in their communities and provided feedback (N = 91 feedback forms received) on their perceptions of impact of PAL Cards on care communication and delivery. A variety of NH staff members, across disciplines, were a part of PAL Card implementation. The majority of staff (84%) perceived that PAL Cards helped them start a conversation with a resident and 64% indicated that PAL Cards helped them provide care for a resident. PAL Cards are an effective tool for communicating information about NH residents' preferences to staff. [Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 50(8), 5-10.].

ГОРОДСКИЕ СООБЩЕСТВА В 1920-е гг. (НА ПРИМЕРЕ СЛОБОД И ПРИГОРОДОВ г. КРАСНОЯРСКА ЕНИСЕЙСКОЙ ГУБЕРНИИ)

The paper attempts to reconstruct certain aspects of the daily life of residents of urban communities - residents of slobodas and suburbs of Krasnoyarsk in the 1920s – as an insufficiently studied phenomenon of local history. The relevance of the topic is determined by the possibility of identifying the social consequences of compact living of groups with similar sociocultural and status characteristics. In the context of intensified migration processes in modern urban landscapes, places of autonomous residence of such groups are often formed, creating an increased riskiness, which actualizes the need to address the topic, including in the context of historical experience. In the paper, the main research perspective is focused on the analysis of archival sources identified by the author - minutes of meetings of local history circles organized at the State Museum of the Prienisei Region and the Pedagogical Museum of Krasnoyarsk - and the representation of inhabitants of slobodas and suburbs in regional media of the 1920s. Based on a study of the characteristics of the sociocultural appearance of the residents of these territories, interaction with other actors in the urban space, reconstruction of the conditions of everyday life and ways of spending free time, the process of compiling a social characteristic is initiated, the reasons for giving the inhabitants of slobodas and suburbs of Krasnoyarsk similar status characteristics and possible reasons for socio-spatial segregation in the discourse of local society are identified. The results of the study makes it possible to conclude that in the local conditions of a provincial Siberian city in the 1920s the peculiarities of everyday life and work, and the leisure preferences of residents of slobodas and suburbs became one of the reasons for the appearance of “invisible borders” within the urban space. Prospects for further research are related to the possibility of drawing up a holistic picture of the daily life of urban residents of provincial territories in the first years after the restoration of Soviet power and identifying the reasons.

WITHDRAWN: Addressing China’s retirement Dilemma: Exploring strategies to balance life expectancy and leisure preference

We construct an overlapping generation model (OLG) that reflects workers’ endogenous retirement intention and retirement age, and examine the effects of increased life expectancy and leisure preference on individuals’ retirement age choice, with a specific focus on China’s unique demographic and economic context. The deepening degree of population aging in China may lead to a series of economic and social challenges if not properly addressed. Our findings suggest that as life expectancy rises, individuals may choose to work longer and retire later to accumulate more resources for their extended retirement years. However, with fewer young people entering the workforce and an increasing older population, labor shortages and pressures on the pension and healthcare systems are of paramount concern. The results have significant implications for policy-making in China, emphasizing the need for strategic adjustments to retirement age policies and leisure preferences to sustain economic growth and manage the aging population crisis.

Structuring the Museum Audience on the Example of Izhevsk and Votkinsk

Modern sociological research demonstrates the need to comprehend the transformation of the organizational principles of museum work, which implies the intensification of interactivity in various forms and the provision of opportunities for individual involvement and for the activities of public associations. The development of museums presupposes a combination of two factors: firstly, the articulated symbolic value of objects, and secondly, different types of capital of actors who make up a one-time or permanent audience. Museums in provincial cities have difficulties with these factors, as their inhabitants, due to their habitus, are limited in resources and the cultural value of the practice of visiting museums is not obvious to them. In addition, provincial museums as a rule do not have information about the composition of their visitors and their cultural needs. The aim of the article is to determine the structure of the museum audience on the example of two cities of the Udmurt Republic — Izhevsk and Votkinsk. The empirical basis of the research is based on the data of a qualitative study with the staff of museums in Izhevsk and Votkinsk(n = 25), supplemented by surveys in Izhevsk (n = 600) and Votkinsk (n = 330). In accordance with L. Lotina’s typology, five forms of cultural engagement were identified: public, audience, visitors, users (regular visitors), and participants. The analysis of such categories as public and audience allows us to define the place of going to museums as a form of leisure. Differences in leisure preferences of residents of Izhevsk and Votkinsk are related to commercial forms of leisure. Regular visitors of museums and other cultural institutions, among whom middle-aged women, pensioners and families with children predominate, demonstrate a high degree of satisfaction with the content and level of work of these institutions. At the same time, there are difficulties associated with the transition of regular visitors to the category of active participants, which are caused by staffing, resource and organizational limitations of museums, as well as the existing level of differentiation of the museum audience.

Leisure Ex Machina: The Leisure Lives of Digital Minds

Humans may soon succeed in the creation of sentient artificial intelligence (SAI) that experiences human-like consciousness. Such SAI would have a claim to the same rights and moral considerations afforded to biological humans, including a right to leisure. Particular to this special issue, I explore the implications of such a development from the context of leisure studies; specifically, I apply utilitarian moral theory and the concept of a “utility monster,” as an analytical framework to consider the potential for SAI to degrade the wellbeing of humans and non-human animals through their leisure experiences. Throughout this essay, my overarching goal is to provide a thought provoking argument that serves as the context for fruitful reflection and discussion in the field of leisure studies. Due to their potentially superhuman efficiency in deriving benefits (“utility”) from experiences, SAI may become a “utility monster,” or a being with superior moral claim to scarce resources. As SAI will (a) likely be “human-like,” and (b) exist independent of the physiological needs/limits inherent to biological humans, it is likely that a large proportion of the experiences chosen by SAI would be categorizable as leisure. Following a utilitarian logic that the only morally acceptable action is the one that raises net utility by the greatest amount, other beings would be morally compelled to transfer all available resources to satisfy the leisure preferences of the SAI utility monster. I examine the implications of this moral quandary for leisure studies and wider society, and discuss three potential paths forward: total transfer of resources to a leisure-focused SAI utility monster; strict limits on the development of SAI; and a middle path where the interests of SAI and humans align. Although the topic of artificial intelligence is increasingly relevant in discussions within our broader society, and specific to the field of leisure studies, to date that conversation has largely focused on how technological advances in artificial intelligence will impact humans, and how that technology can be used in an ethical fashion; this essay refocuses the conversation to the implications for a potential SAI that may look and feel very much like we do.

Literary responses in Spanish adolescents: Adaptation, validation, and analysis of the Literary Response Questionnaire

AbstractThis study involves translating, cross‐culturally adapting, and validating the Literary Response Questionnaire (LRQ) for 413 Spanish adolescents. It explores the evolution of literary education in Spain and its alignment with the Reading Responses paradigm. The LRQ, adapted across various locations, is validated in Spanish through Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. The research analyzes reading responses in dimensions like Leisure Escape, Insight, Empathy, Story‐driven Reading, Concern with Author, Imagery Vividness, and Rejecting Literary Values. Findings reveal widespread indifference and rejection toward literary reading among the adolescents, along with a clear disapproval of the historicist‐authorial approach to literary education. Significant variations were identified based on students' gender, enrollment in a bilingual program, and notably, the number of books read per year. This underscores the significance of introducing literary reading practices in secondary education that align with the leisure preferences of adolescents, encouraging personal and experiential engagement with texts. This could materialize in the classroom the shift from a historicist to a reader‐centered approach suggested by the current Spanish curriculum.

Dynamic effects of tourism shocks on innovation in an open-economy Schumpeterian growth model

International travel restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic drastically reduced the number of tourists. This study explores the dynamic effects of tourism shocks in an open-economy Schumpeterian model with endogenous market structure. A tourism shock affects the economy via a reallocation effect and an employment effect. A positive tourism shock increases employment, which raises production and innovation in the short run. However, a positive tourism shock also reallocates labor from production to service for tourists, which reduces production and innovation. If leisure preference is weak, the reallocation effect dominates, and the short-run effect of positive tourism shocks on innovation is monotonically negative. If leisure preference is strong, the employment effect dominates initially, and the short-run effect of tourism shocks on innovation becomes inverted-U, which is consistent with the stylized facts that we document using cross-country data. Finally, permanent tourism shocks do not affect the steady-state innovation rate in our scale-invariant model.

A Research on the Dynamics Between Perceived Income Level, Leisure Activities, and 21st Century Skills Among Young University Adults

The objective of this study is to examine the method in which young adults determine their leisure preferences, taking into consideration variables such as income level, gender ender, and availability of free time, and to investigate the potential associations between these characteristics and their ability in 21st-century skills. In this study, correlational research methodology was used to examine the impact of income levels, daily leisure time, 21st-century skill levels, and gender on the recreational activity preferences of university students. A total of 366 students from Necmettin Erbakan University were selected as a representative sample through face-to-face questionnaires, aiming to capture the characteristics of the full population. The data collection instruments comprised of a participant form and the "Multidimensional 21st Century Skills Scale." Recreational activities were classified into various categories. The research employed a multiple logistic regression analysis to forecast individuals' preferences for recreational activities, while considering factors such as income levels, daily leisure time, 21st-century skills, and gender. The results of the research showed that the significant impact of gender on individuals' preferences concerning sports, touristic, leisure, cultural, and artistic activities. In conclusion, this study highlights the factors that affect the recreational activity choices of university students, emphasizing the importance of 21st-century skills and other demographic variables in understanding these choices. This knowledge has the potential to provide insights into the development of initiatives aimed at encouraging a wide range of engaging recreational activities among young adults.Keywords: 21st Century, Recreation, Sport Activities, University Adults, Young

Influences of occupant preferences for living environments on household energy consumption: A case study of Indonesia

Generally, economic factors, demographic factors and home appliances are several known factors that directly influence the level of household energy consumption (HEC). But still, individual differences often remain among the households. This study aims to explore indirect factors affecting HEC in Indonesia, focusing especially on occupant preferences for their living environments. A nationwide online survey (n = 1629) was conducted between July and August 2021 to depict the preferences using the Evaluation Grid Method (EGM) at various scales, including behavioral, interior, building and neighborhood scales. A new EGM approach incorporating text mining methods was developed and demonstrated, which was able to draw the comprehensive overviews of the complex relationships between occupant psychology and the surrounding environment. In the survey, 400 respondents were randomly chosen for each of the four scales and 29 respondents participated in the following online interviews for all scales. The results of EGM were analyzed among different levels of HEC to find the specific psychological factors affecting their HEC levels. The extracted major Original Evaluation Items (OEIs) include “healthy lifestyle” in behavior (10.0 %), “wide place” in interior (3.6 %), “comfortable building” in building (6.4 %) and “cool air” in neighborhood (5.3 %), respectively. The axis of sociability-introvert was found to be a key factor affecting their HEC. Other key factors include the design preferences and leisure preferences. As such, the results revealed several differences in preferences and sense of values among respondents with various levels of HEC. These findings would help find a way to balance between economic growth and energy-saving objectives in the fast-developing countries such as Indonesia.

Experienced versus decision utility: large‐scale comparison for income–leisure preferences*

AbstractSubjective well‐being (SWB) data are increasingly used to perform welfare analysis. Interpreted as “experienced utility”, it has recently been compared to “decision utility” using small‐scale experiments most often based on stated preferences. We transpose this comparison to the framework of non‐experimental and large‐scale data commonly used for policy analysis, focusing on the income–leisure domain where redistributive policies operate. Using the British Household Panel Survey, we suggest a “deviation” measure, which is simply the difference between actual working hours and SWB‐maximizing hours. We show that about three‐quarters of individuals make decisions that are not inconsistent with maximizing their SWB. We discuss the potential channels that explain the lack of optimization when deviations are significantly large. We find proxies for a number of individual and external constraints, and show that constraints alone can explain more than half of the deviations. In our context, deviations partly reflect the inability of the revealed preference approach to account for labor market rigidities, so the actual and SWB‐maximizing hours should be used in a complementary manner. The suggested approach based on our deviation metric could help identify labor market frictions.

Relationship between visitor characteristics, physical activity levels and park environment in subtropical areas’ urban parks

Urban parks are of great significance improving the physical and mental health of residents. However, there is still a lack of systematic discussion of the relationship between visitor characteristics, physical activity (PA) levels, and urban park environments, especially within subtropical areas of Asia. We took 12 urban parks in Guangzhou, China as the research objects, comprehensively used BRAT and SOPARC to observe the microenvironment and visitors’ PA in the urban parks, and supplemented the research with interviews. The results of the study revealed that: (1) The urban parks in Guangzhou cannot fully encourage visitors to engage in high PA levels, and due to the temperature of subtropical areas most visitors chose medium and high PA levels in the morning. (2) Leisure preferences and environment features determined that females tended to engage in medium and high PA levels more than males. Minors preferred high PA levels, while other age groups preferred low PA levels. (3) All groups attached great importance to rest facilities and shade. Among them, the youth paied more attention to the quality of the landscape and the middle-aged were attracted by the scent. (4) Low PA levels were affected largely by the site elements and high PA levels were greatly affected by varying terrains and shade. (5) Areas that including recreation and sport facilities had the highest concentration of medium and high PA levels; however, were insufficient to meet the needs of multiple age groups. Finally, we made recommendations to improve the PA levels of visitors in subtropical areas and gave advice concerning more humanized park planning.

Everyday Leisure of the Dmitrov’ Town Merchant I. A. Tolchenov

This article analyzes the leisure preferences of the Dmitrov merchant I. A. Tolchenov on the basis of his autobiographical text “Journal or note of the life and adventures” of I. A. Tolchenov. As a result of the study, it was revealed how different life practices changed or still prevail during the course of the Dmitrov merchant, based on his family, financial and social status, as well as changes and continuity of leisure practices at different age levels of I. A. Tolchenov. It was demonstrated that the representatives of the wealthy merchants of the second half of the 18th century had no less opportunities for leisure than the nobles.

Three Necessities of Inbound and Outbound Tourism in China after COVID-19

Global tourists have started to conquer their fear and anxiety, recover travel interest instead, while mounting countries have paused territorial lockdown. Municipal administration and civic willingness also offer hope to tourism in China. Chinese inbound and outbound tourism is coming into light. Among those entry-exit travel demand, three necessary travel motivations overwhelm leisure orientation, namely family-visiting, medical and business demand.

Recreational Factors Influencing the Choice of Destination of Hungarian Tourists in the Case of Bulgaria

In 1990, the countries of the V4 were the dominant sending countries to Bulgaria, which is why Bulgarians thought of targeting the sending market from these countries, not only with the product of mass tourism, but with a unique, four-season offer. In 1990, Hungary was Bulgaria’s third largest sending market; therefore, leisure trend studies are important as they can help to satisfy the needs of Hungarian tourists and attract them to the destination and increase their visitor satisfaction. The aim of our study is to examine the leisure time patterns and leisure preference system of Hungarian tourists, which is evident during their travels. This study examines the willingness of Hungarian tourists to travel to Bulgaria. According to the results of the secondary and primary research, the vast majority of Hungarian tourists travel to Bulgaria mainly for beach holidays, but, in addition to mass tourism, the country’s culture, history, ecotourism, health tourism, wine and gastronomy may represent further travel potential for Hungarian tourists. Having examined the attitudes of Hungarian tourists (n = 952), the study offers useful recommendations for Bulgarian tourism organizations and Bulgarian and Hungarian tour operators, as factor analysis is used to create groups belonging to factors that can be included as key target groups in publications promoting Bulgaria. Another aim of our study is to add new content to the traditional Bulgarian–Hungarian tourism relations.

Structure of aesthetic judgements

Daniel Berlyne's "new experimental aesthetics" offers a deliberately mole- cular and non-normative view of aesthetic processes. This paper suggests that Berlyne's theoretical structure may derive greater social applicability by regarding aesthetic stimuli as aspects of leisure and the entertainment industry: that the concept of optimal level of stimulation is useful in predicting individual leisure preferences; that a formal link between percep- tion and intrinsic motivation may be found in perceptually-mediated arousal; and that the hedonic value of this arousal is determined by the socially formed values attached to aesthetic stimuli.

The leisure preferences of a student from the rural environment

Exercise is a source of health and is practiced first within the family, then at school level within physical education lessons or extracurricular activities. Motor activities in free time were most of the time outside the attention of specialists, being left to the choice of each of us. However, due to the fact that technology has evolved and developed a lot these days, young people and especially students have allowed themselves to be invaded by the virtual world and ,their free time, physical exercises and sports are hardly found in their schedule. The need for socialization and new curiosity make students from rural and urban environments spend more time in front of smart devices than to move outdoors.

The interface between leisure constraints and facilitators of marriage migrant women

ABSTRACT This study explored leisure constraints and facilitators of marriage migrant women. Qualitative interviews with 20 Vietnamese marriage migrant women in South Korea were conducted. At the individual level, language skills, financial resources, time, personal leisure orientation and preference, and capacity for individual mobility were identified as the constraints and facilitators of leisure for the marriage migrant women. At the interpersonal level, family served as both the leisure constraint and facilitator of this group. At the context and system level, the Multicultural Family Support Centre was highlighted as a facilitator, while transportation acted as both a facilitator and constraint of the leisure of migrant women. This study sheds light on the impacts of a diverse amalgam of facilitators and constraints of leisure participation among marriage migrant women. Implications for leisure planners, human resources managers of organisations, and the government are offered.

Problems of understanding the text by schoolchildren: a sociological view

The article considers understanding as a social and cognitive phenomenon, analyses the conditions for the formation of understanding in oral and written communications. Text comprehension is a fundamental element of human literacy, since without comprehension it is impossible to use information, reflect and draw conclusions, on the basis of which it is possible to achieve goals and participate in social life. Thus, in the modern world it is one of the key elements of socialisation. Understanding the text is based not only on the technical skills of reading and writing, but also on the general outlook of a person, his ideas about different areas of life. Studies conducted during mass distance learning have shown that a break in personal teacher-student communication during training had a negative impact on the reading skills of schoolchildren. In addition to regularity, both social attitudes and value views of parents, as well as the cognitive experience of the student, the level of his speech development are important for effective reading and understanding.
 Reading is considered by the authors not just as a set of cognitive skills, but also as a social action. Studies show that the reading skills and comprehension of new knowledge by schoolchildren are influenced by: the socio-economic status of the family, the attitudes and principles adopted in it. The article also shows that a long time spent by schoolchildren on the Internet negatively affects both their comprehension of texts and empathy. In addition, the problems of integrating the individual into the digital environment and the impact of digitalisation on consciousness and thinking are analysed. On the background of the growth of leisure preferences on the Internet, there is a decrease in the importance of reading for schoolchildren. An increase in school load also negatively affects interest in reading. The authors hypothesise that social stratification between schoolchildren with different levels of literacy can be reduced by using earlier teaching of semantic reading. The authors show that the study of these issues is important not only for pedagogical and psychological sciences, but also for sociology.