Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.1080/16078055.2023.2228753
H. Liu, C. Carotta, Erin S. Lavender‐Stott, Aileen S. Garcia
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Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1080/16078055.2023.2227606
Yujun Xu
{"title":"Into the wild: sailing through leisure hybridity and self-other interculturality upon an ocean-crossing tall ship","authors":"Yujun Xu","doi":"10.1080/16078055.2023.2227606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16078055.2023.2227606","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45670,"journal":{"name":"World Leisure Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45619489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1080/16078055.2023.2222701
Jaehyun Kim, Chulwoo Park, Matthew Fish, Yeo Jin Kim, Brandon Kim
It is well-documented that participation in leisure activities plays an essential role in coping with stress and improving health. However, we know less about what types of leisure activities are more relevant to life satisfaction and happiness among college students. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate how various leisure activities relate to happiness and life satisfaction among college students. Data were collected using a sample of 266 in Indiana, United States. Results from hierarchical multiple regression analysis indicate that certain types of activities (i.e. outdoor, sports, social, cultural and civic activities) were particularly associated with life satisfaction and happiness. In this regard, this study confirmed that the relationships of leisure activity with life satisfaction and happiness vary across leisure activity types. Furthermore, this study highlights the importance of providing a variety of campus recreational programmes and cultural and social events to foster and sustain adequate physical activity, which will lead to improved life satisfaction and happiness.
{"title":"Are certain types of leisure activities associated with happiness and life satisfaction among college students?","authors":"Jaehyun Kim, Chulwoo Park, Matthew Fish, Yeo Jin Kim, Brandon Kim","doi":"10.1080/16078055.2023.2222701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16078055.2023.2222701","url":null,"abstract":"It is well-documented that participation in leisure activities plays an essential role in coping with stress and improving health. However, we know less about what types of leisure activities are more relevant to life satisfaction and happiness among college students. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate how various leisure activities relate to happiness and life satisfaction among college students. Data were collected using a sample of 266 in Indiana, United States. Results from hierarchical multiple regression analysis indicate that certain types of activities (i.e. outdoor, sports, social, cultural and civic activities) were particularly associated with life satisfaction and happiness. In this regard, this study confirmed that the relationships of leisure activity with life satisfaction and happiness vary across leisure activity types. Furthermore, this study highlights the importance of providing a variety of campus recreational programmes and cultural and social events to foster and sustain adequate physical activity, which will lead to improved life satisfaction and happiness.","PeriodicalId":45670,"journal":{"name":"World Leisure Journal","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135269047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-18DOI: 10.1080/16078055.2023.2213686
Fatih Bedir, Levent Önal, R. Stebbins
ABSTRACT Deviant or purple leisure associated with crime and criminal behaviour is notable as the non-innocent aspect of leisure. However, the deviant behavioural tendencies of leisure participants are an overlooked issue. The purpose of this study is to develop a scale to evaluate the deviant leisure tendencies of individuals. First, in-depth interviews and content analysis were conducted to generate the initial items. Second, exploratory factor analysis was conducted with 165 university students to determine the ideal number of items and to facilitate factor extraction. Third, confirmative factor analysis was employed to investigate 350 subjects on-site. Experimental evidence on psychometric qualities was uncovered through these processing steps and the Adult Deviant Leisure Tendency Scale (ADLTS) (one dimension and five items) was developed. As a result, it can be said that ADLTS is a valid and reliable measurement tool for individuals.
{"title":"Adult Deviant Leisure Tendency Scale (ADLTS) – scale development study","authors":"Fatih Bedir, Levent Önal, R. Stebbins","doi":"10.1080/16078055.2023.2213686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16078055.2023.2213686","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Deviant or purple leisure associated with crime and criminal behaviour is notable as the non-innocent aspect of leisure. However, the deviant behavioural tendencies of leisure participants are an overlooked issue. The purpose of this study is to develop a scale to evaluate the deviant leisure tendencies of individuals. First, in-depth interviews and content analysis were conducted to generate the initial items. Second, exploratory factor analysis was conducted with 165 university students to determine the ideal number of items and to facilitate factor extraction. Third, confirmative factor analysis was employed to investigate 350 subjects on-site. Experimental evidence on psychometric qualities was uncovered through these processing steps and the Adult Deviant Leisure Tendency Scale (ADLTS) (one dimension and five items) was developed. As a result, it can be said that ADLTS is a valid and reliable measurement tool for individuals.","PeriodicalId":45670,"journal":{"name":"World Leisure Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47763077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-14DOI: 10.1080/16078055.2023.2212642
Ehsan Mohamadi Turkmani, Katarzyna Dzioban, Sara Almasizadeh, Sepideh Hoseinkhani, Nafise Kheyri
Before COVID-19, perceived freedom in leisure (PFL) was rarely considered based on academic majors. This study examined student PFL during COVID-19 lockdowns. 340 Iranian students studying physical education, non-physical education, and medical sciences took an online Witt and Ellis (1985) scale survey in July and August 2021. The one-sample t-test showed that students' PFL (M = 3.78) exceeded the hypothesized value (test value = 3). ANOVA showed a significant difference in PFL means between the three groups (F = 7.530, P < 0.01). Medical sciences students had the lowest PFL (3.45), and physical education students had the highest (3.86). Iranian students' high PFL likely indicates they don't have lessons or schoolwork, giving them a sense of freedom even during pandemics.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1080/16078055.2023.2210536
K. Bingham
ABSTRACT Mobilizing Herbert Marcuse’s argument that modern leisure has been desublimated, which means it represses creativity, imagination and freedom, this article explores the idea that some forms of leisure can be paralogical. This is the suggestion that leisure can be a way of contradicting the legislating rules of consumer culture despite existing within (and therefore being part of) its language game. Using the example of caving, together with Peter Sloterdijk’s celebration of anthropotechnics which is a term he uses to refer to the labour of self-shaping and the practice of self-creation, the article reveals how cavers might disrupt and challenge the normal temporal, spatial and existential orders found in present modernity and caving. Beginning with a discussion that challenges both the old language of caving and figures of control and authority who created it, an attempt is made to reinterpret caves as sites of potential resistance as they are used by some people to find an unstable state known as the differend. The article concludes with the observation that seeking sublimation in the natural underground is in the end all about experiencing feelings of sublimity which occur only after the differend has been located.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/16078055.2023.2208563
A. W. Pooley, Lawrence J. Bendle
ABSTRACT Using qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews this paper explores how serious leisure homebrewing helped 18 long-stay non-native professionals in South Korea nurture leisure sociability among fellow brewers and Korean family, co-workers, and the broader community. Findings point out they made friendships by involving interested social contacts in brewing techniques and sharing beers at home, and by volunteering for brewing classes, bottle exchanges, tasting events, and charity support. Through these activities they enjoyed the leisure sociability themes of shop talk, practical information, instruction, encouragement, promoting products, event analysis, and talking about their social circles and local social world. Also, they benefited from the serious leisure personal and social rewards of self-expression, self-image, group attraction, group accomplishment, and contributing to group maintenance. It emerged they did not rely on any third-party assistance and were self-reliant when following their hobby. This included initiating their reaching out to others for help, advice, or holding convivial occasions, and leveraging of hobby processes and products by giving classes, and donating bottled beers for community events. Future research can examine the viability of self-reliant leisure sociability when establishing successful friendships arising from amateur, hobby, and volunteer activities in other cross-cultural contexts and broader settings.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/16078055.2023.2208569
Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
ABSTRACT By drawing upon and attaching a new layer to the “security field” concept, this article examines and conceptualizes European security practices and challenges through the lens of European football. At a critical juncture for security in both Europe and football, this article questions (i) how the supranational regulation informing European football’s security field has evolved since 1985 and (ii) how exactly the security field’s regulators – the Council of Europe, Council of the EU, and UEFA – set the standards for the remainder of the security field. Relatedly, it asks what this tells us about the power to define security. Drawing upon theoretical perspectives located in International Political Sociology, the sociology of leisure and sport, and publicly available documents and conventions, this conceptual article contributes to our understanding of security in Europe. It argues, first, that the security field in European football is indicative of wider security transformations. Second, that the security field’s regulators configure and dictate the wider field and possess the power to standardize security and the prioritization of threats. This remains important because, to fully understand and analytically capture the security field in European football, one must conceptually account for its standard setting organizations.
{"title":"The definers and standard setters of security: mapping the security field’s regulators through European football","authors":"Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen","doi":"10.1080/16078055.2023.2208569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/16078055.2023.2208569","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT By drawing upon and attaching a new layer to the “security field” concept, this article examines and conceptualizes European security practices and challenges through the lens of European football. At a critical juncture for security in both Europe and football, this article questions (i) how the supranational regulation informing European football’s security field has evolved since 1985 and (ii) how exactly the security field’s regulators – the Council of Europe, Council of the EU, and UEFA – set the standards for the remainder of the security field. Relatedly, it asks what this tells us about the power to define security. Drawing upon theoretical perspectives located in International Political Sociology, the sociology of leisure and sport, and publicly available documents and conventions, this conceptual article contributes to our understanding of security in Europe. It argues, first, that the security field in European football is indicative of wider security transformations. Second, that the security field’s regulators configure and dictate the wider field and possess the power to standardize security and the prioritization of threats. This remains important because, to fully understand and analytically capture the security field in European football, one must conceptually account for its standard setting organizations.","PeriodicalId":45670,"journal":{"name":"World Leisure Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42453102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-26DOI: 10.1080/16078055.2023.2204676
H. Chang
ABSTRACT This study examined how an individual's subjective well-being (SWB) affects their online game addiction levels, which, in turn, affect their happiness and overall health. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to analyze the data. The results showed that SWB had a negative relationship with online game addiction but a positive relationship with happiness and life health. Additionally, online game addiction had a negative impact on both happiness and life health. Furthermore, there was a significant positive relationship between happiness and life health. Overall, the proposed model explained 1.60%, 51.60%, and 31.80% of the variance in online game addiction, happiness, and life health, respectively. PLS-SEM analysis provided evidence that the indirect effect of SWB on life health and happiness was fully mediated by online game addiction. These findings indicate that SWB has a significant indirect effect on life health and happiness through online game addiction.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-19DOI: 10.1080/16078055.2023.2204078
Ranjit Singh, Iqra Sajad Khan, Iqra Shafi, S. Khreis, A. Najar, Juman Iqbal
ABSTRACT World Leisure Journal (WLJ) has consolidated its position as a prominent source to communicate innovative and interdisciplinary research concerning all forms of leisure. The study intends to provide a comprehensive overview of the academic structure of the WLJ based on articles published between 2000 and 2022 through bibliometric analysis to highlight its contribution and influence. A final data set of 535 articles were analyzed to highlight the journal’s impact, conceptual structure, and most prolific and influential authors, including the sources of knowledge inflow in WLJ. Moreover, the study also performed a collaboration analysis to understand the social structure of the journal. The findings of the thematic analysis revealed various themes studied in WLJ in the three different sub-periods. The USA emerged as a significant country in collaboration with Canada, South Africa, Israel, Brazil and China.
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