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Intersecting Identities: Investigating Effects of Multiple Hierarchy Stratification Perspective on Visitor Activity Participation Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Jessy Wilkes, Ryan L. Sharp, Elizabeth E. Perry, Chris Zajchowski, Mathew Brownlee, Robert Powell
According to the multiple hierarchy stratification perspective, an individual’s demographic characteristics interact and affect their social position and, therefore, their access to services or res...
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Weathering the Storm, Dancing in the Rain: A Phenomenological Study of Temporal Adaptations of Older Adults in Senior Living Facilities Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Shi Yin Chee
In the ebb and flow of temporal adaptations in senior living facilities, older adults live under the silent shadow of mortality, an ever-present reminder that shapes their perception of time and ex...
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The Impact of Perceived Escapism on Visitor Experience and Engagement in Digital Exhibitions: Empirical Research Evidence from Sanxingdui Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Jia Xu, Hu Meng, Luming Yang
The evolution of digital technology offers virtual reality environment to escape and redefines visitor engagement in exhibitions. This study proposed a theoretical model that delineates the influen...
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Parting Thoughts XXVIII: Leisure and the Anthropocene Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Rudy Dunlap, Rasul A. Mowatt, Justin Harmon
Published in Leisure Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Parting Thoughts XXXII: Cultural Endurance: Ancient Blackfoot Clothing at a Modern Social Dance, 1944 Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Alexandra Giancarlo, Eddie Wolf Child
This essay, a collaboration between a Euro-Canadian academic and an Indigenous (Blackfoot) educator, opens a window into the cultural persistence of the Blackfoot people through a photograph of lei...
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Work-to-Leisure Conflict, Recovery Experience, and Well-Being: A Moderated-Mediation Model Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-24 Ling Z. Zhang, Qing Huang
Recent research highlights the adverse effects of work-to-leisure conflict (WTLC) on well-being. However, the results of previous studies on the mechanism (how) and the context (when) of WTLC’s imp...
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Mindset of Fitness and Its Role in Elevating Children’s Leisure-Time Physical Activity Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Jing Jia, Johan Y. Y. Ng, Maggie Haitian Wang, Amy S. Ha
For school-aged children with limited exposure to school physical education, leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) contributed significantly to their overall activity behaviors. The mindset of fitn...
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And the Winner Is - Anthropocentrism and Speciesism: Writing a History of Animals in New Zealand’s Agricultural and Pastoral Events Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Paul Tully, Neil Carr
The paper explores news photographs from New Zealand between 1900 and 1932 and unpacks the happenings at agricultural and pastoral events. It utilizes an archival research strategy to find the news...
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Navigating Public Urban (Green) Space – An Analysis of Ethnic “Other” Women’s Walking Activities in Denmark Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-18 Verena Lenneis, Sine Agergaard
Globally, walking is the most popular leisure time physical activity (LTPA) among adults. Yet, navigating public spaces might pose distinct challenges for ethnic “Other” women, whose bodies and vei...
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Co-Innovation in Dark Tourism: Quality and Type of Tourists’ Ideas Before vs. After the Visit Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Gonzalo Luna-Cortes, Jesús Manuel López-Bonilla, Luis Miguel López-Bonilla
Building on prior findings on co-innovation and dark tourism, this research examined if and how the experiential stage (before vs. after the visit) affects the quality and the type of ideas provide...
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"É nossa, é Do Brasil Inteiro” (It’s Ours, It’s for the Whole of Brazil”): Football, The Yellow Shirt, National Politics, and Conjunctural Contestation Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Bryan C. Clift, David L. Andrews, Victor B. Lopes
From a resonant and highly mythologized symbol of an imagined national coherence in the 1950s, today the iconic yellow Brazilian football (soccer) shirt–the amarelinha–is an emotive site for politi...
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Exploring Transformative Travel Experiences of Southeast Asian Female Solo Travelers Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Dang Thuan An Nguyen, The-Bao Luong
The focus of the tourism industry has shifted to travel experiences that transform self-values, perspectives, and behaviors to positively contribute to an individual’s well-being and society. This ...
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Never Again! Fandom and the Culture of Remembrance in German Football Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Felipe Bertazzo Tobar, Gregory Ramshaw, Fabian Fritz
Sport and politics have historically nurtured intrinsic connections. This article examines the role of a left-wing-oriented German football fan movement in confronting the Nazi past of football clu...
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Conspiracy Thinking About the 15-Minute City: Something from Nothing? Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Troy D. Glover
This paper interrogates the seemingly absurd conspiracies associated with the “15-minute City,” an idea taking hold of urban communities across the globe to bring more amenities, including parks, r...
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Researching Leisure in the Aftermath of Trauma: An Auto-Ethnography of Loss, Fear, and Working with Refugee Families Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Michelle E. E. Bauer
In this auto-ethnographic study, I examine the tensions in conducting leisure research with communities experiencing trauma as a survivor of trauma. I use diary entries taken during times of coping...
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Motivators and Barriers for Green Physical Activity in the U.S.: Examining the Role of Gender, Sexual Identity, Disability, and Race Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Amanda L. Folk, Chelsey M. Thul, Mark A. Pereira, Daheia J. Barr-Anderson
This study explored differences in motivations and barriers for green physical activity (GPA) in a sample of U.S. adults (N = 205). Differences by identity (i.e. gender, sexual identity, disability...
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“We Are Also in These Spaces!”: Struggles with Leisure Constraints of LGBTQ People from Turkey Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 İrem Kavasoglu, Huseyin Gumus, Dana Kivel
This study focused on examining the leisure constraints experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer (LGBTQ) individuals who live in Turkey. Using “leisure constraints” as a fram...
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Sacrifice for Love: The Effects of Compromise on Individual Emotional Benefits in Romantic Tourism Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Hongxu Liu, Chunxiao Li, Hong Xu
Romantic tourism has emerged as an important segment, where tourists have a strong drive to compromise with partners to maintain good relations. But it’s not clear how this influences their feeling...
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Parting Thoughts XXX: My Struggle With Disney and Cognitive Dissonance Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Robin Lizzo
Published in Leisure Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Direct Democracy and Funding for Public Park and Recreation Services: Consumer Confidence and Support for Greenspace Ballot Initiatives Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Nick Pitas, Sharon Zou, Andrew Mowen
Maintaining or increasing tax-based allocations is a strategic imperative for many public park and recreation agencies. Some agencies have the capacity to do so by sponsoring ballot initiatives pro...
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Bras, Bounce, and Bodily Boundaries: Exploring the Materiality of Moving Bodies Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Julie Brice, Holly Thorpe
In this paper, we draw upon new materialist scholar Karen Barad’s writings on bodily boundaries and entanglements to explore the materiality of moving bodies. Engaging with Barad, we are interested...
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How Do Urban Nature Parks Contribute to Psychological Restoration? The Perspective of Embodied Experience Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Xingping Cao, Leyu Wang, Xiaowei Yang, Yan Liu
Urban nature parks, as public green spaces in cities, hold great significance in helping individuals rejuvenate their physical and mental well-being in response to the demands of daily life and wor...
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Unraveling the Barriers Contributing to the Seniors Travelers’ Non-adoption Intention of Virtual Reality Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 Qingyu Zhang, Salman Khan, Safeer Ullah Khan, Shafaqat Mehmood, Ikram Ullah Khan
Virtual reality (VR) has gained popularity and has been adopted by the hospitality and tourism industries as a means of engaging customers and marketing. However, there is still a relatively modera...
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Why Do Park Visitors Engage With Social Media for Peer-to-Peer Information? Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Billy Sung, Sean Lee, Keegan Kok, Vanessa Quintal, Athena Wei Chee Chong
Park visitors are increasingly gravitating toward peer-to-peer sources of information on social media to prepare for their visit to nature parks. This has significant implications for park safety a...
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Playing Board Games to Increase Emotional Competencies in School-Age Children and Older People: A Systematic Review Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Pierre Cès, Mathilde Duflos, Elodie Tricard, Sandra Jhean-Larose, Caroline Giraudeau
Board games have always been a part of our lives. Most studies highlight their potential for learning in childhood and for maintaining cognitive functions in older people. Nevertheless, regarding t...
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“You Always Had to Be Very Careful:” Mapping Civil Leisure Constraints for Collegiate Athletes Engaging in Social Media Activism Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Yannick Kluch, Meg G. Hancock, Nina Siegfried, Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown, Tomika L. Ferguson, Evan L. Frederick
Collegiate athletes in the United States increasingly turn to social media to advocate for social change. Drawing from interviews with National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I ath...
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The Dark Side of (Later-Life) Leisure: The Case of Walking Football Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 Gareth M. Thomas
Leisure is heralded as a channel for connection, belonging, and inclusion in later-life, particularly owing to a presumed threat of isolation and loneliness. Yet, such a framing of later-life leisu...
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Physical Activity and Subjective Well-Being: A Social Stratification Perspective Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Yan Fang, Yilin Zhang, Hanyue Zheng
While evidence supports the link between physical activity and subjective well-being, fewer studies have explored this influence relationship from a social stratification perspective. The study thu...
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Development and Validation of an Attitude Measure in Open Water Activities Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Heetae Cho, Lit Khoon Chian, Koon Teck Koh, Ye Hoon Lee
Although individual attitudes play a critical role in understanding risky behaviors during open water activities, an attitude scale for open water activities has not yet been developed in the field...
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Parting Thoughts XXVIIII: Fostering Holistic Leisure Experience for Infants in the Digital Era Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Young Suk Oh
The essay discusses the dynamic landscape of leisure in the digital era through the lens of a caregiver reflecting on a child’s interaction with screens and technology. It emphasizes the need for m...
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Correction Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-05
Published in Leisure Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2024)
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Leisure and the Anthropocene—Special Issue Introduction Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Bryan S. R. Grimwood, Emily Höckert, Outi Rantala
The Anthropocene, introduced by scientists in 2000 to name the current geological epoch, draws attention to the scale and force of anthropogenic impacts on Earth systems. With this special issue, w...
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Leisure during the Escape and Adaption in South Korea: A Life Story of a North Korean Adolescent Defector Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Monika Stodolska, Anonymous
The objective of this study, which employed a life history method, was to examine an adolescent North Korean defector’s leisure during his defection and adaptation to life in South Korea. Data were...
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“Collecting Loose Change:” Conceptual Clarifications on Bias, Subjectivity, Positionality, Reflexivity, & Autoethnography in Leisure Research Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Corey W. Johnson, Jeff Rose
With the rise of the acceptance, normalization, and increasing sophistication of qualitative research across the social sciences, there is a proliferation of paradigmatic approaches, methodologies,...
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Leisure under Totalitarian Regimes: A Life Story of a North Korean Adolescent Defector Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Monika Stodolska, Anonymous
The objective of this study was to investigate the leisure of an adolescent North Korean defector and how the context of historical and geopolitical events taking place in his country shaped his le...
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Leisure Programs for Improving Middle-Aged and Older adults’ Depression and Quality of Life: A Meta-Analysis Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Wen-Hsuan Hou, Jeng-Cheng Wu, Li-Jung Lin, Pei-Shan Tsai, Hao-Yun Huang, Hsin-Yen Yen
Engaging in leisure activities might be beneficial for ameliorating older adults’ depression and improving their quality of life. The main purpose was to explore the effectiveness of leisure progra...
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How Do Awareness, Perceptions, and Expectations of an Urban Greenway Influence Residents’ Visits and Recreational Physical Activity? Evidence From the Connswater Community Greenway, Belfast, Northern Ireland Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Ruoyu Wang, Matthew H. E. M. Browning, Frank Kee, Ruth F. Hunter
The development of an urban greenway as part of a major regeneration project may encourage usage and recreational physical activity (PA). However, how the awareness and perceptions of such a projec...
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Mechanisms of Action Promoting Social Emotional Learning in Sport and Recreation Program for Socially Vulnerable Youth Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Hwayong Son, Liza Berdychevsky
While sport and recreation programs have capacity to contribute to social emotional learning, there is a lack of clarity regarding how to achieve this. To address this void, we used constructivist ...
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Impacts of Gang Involvement on Health and Well-Being: The Perilous Dimensions of Leisure Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Kshitij Tewari, Liza Berdychevsky, Monika Stodolska
Extant studies on gangs have primarily focused on the adverse effects of gang activity on communities and risk factors for involvement, while information on the impacts of engagement in deviant lei...
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The Effect of Outdoor Play, Physical Activity, and Screen Time Use on the Emotional Wellbeing of Children and Youth during a Health Crisis Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Lydia Gorrell, Xiangyou Shen, Megan MacDonald, Samuel W. Logan, Bridget E. Hatfield, Colby Parkinson, Ashley D’Antonio, William Massey
Long-standing research has highlighted the critical role of physical and outdoor activities for children’s health and wellbeing. During the COVID-19 pandemic, children around the world experienced ...
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Leisure Ex Machina: The Leisure Lives of Digital Minds Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Nick Pitas
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 ...
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“Life is Better in Another Country”: a Case Study of International Migration of Middle Aged and Older Adults in South Korea Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Jasmyn Kim*, Kang Lee, Hae Youn Min, Kyung Eun Lee, Jinmoo Heo
Increasing global life expectancy places an emphasis on improving quality of life among individuals who are close to retirement. As the cost of living rises in Western countries, middle aged and ol...
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“Learning is Like a Preservative”: Lifelong Learning as Leisure Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Kyung Eun Lee, Kang Lee, Hae Youn Min, Sang Hyun Park, Jinmoo Heo
Lifelong learning is an activity undertaken throughout one’s life to gain knowledge, skills, and values. Lifelong learning plays a significant role in society as well as in the lives of older adult...
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“I Am Not Diversity Training”: Exploring the Experiences of Diverse Parks and Recreation Professionals Through Socio-Ecological Systems Theory Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Lisa Meerts-Brandsma, Eric Legg, N. Qwynne Lackey
As a public leisure service, parks and recreation is philosophically oriented and legally obligated to be accessible. However, a misalignment between who works for agencies and the communities they...
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The Dominance of Fandom: An Analysis of How Gender and Fandom Impact Live and Non-Live Sport Event Consumption Behaviours Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Heather Kennedy, Jordan T. Bakhsh, Ann Pegoraro, Marijke Taks
This quantitative study featuring a representative sample from four Canadian regions (n = 1,011) investigates the impact of fandom and gender on 12 consumption behaviors pertaining to the 2019 NBA ...
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Assessing Crowding Perceptions and Satisfaction Among Diverse Visitors at El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Natalia Buta, Tinelle D Bustam
Increased visitation is a concern for many parks and forests due to associated impacts on the environment and the recreation experience. Crowding continues to be one of public land managers’ most c...
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Bodies in the Making? Racial Body Schemas and Roma Youth in Leisure Spaces Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Selçuk Açıkgöz
Roma youth experience intensive forms of racial discrimination in leisure spaces. However, we lack insight into how Roma youth experience and counter racism in leisure spaces through agency and ret...
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“More Than Just a Vehicle for Getting Drunk”: Class, (Serious) Leisure and the Discerning ‘No and Low’ Craft Beer Drinker Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Emily Nicholls
Previous research on alcohol consumption and leisure illuminates the ways in which drinking practices—including a preference for “craft” products—are entangled with notions of taste and distinction...
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A Thousand Catcalls: Survivors’ Experiences of Sexual Violence in Online Dating Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Eric Filice, Amy Matharu, Diana C. Parry, Corey W. Johnson
There is growing academic interest in the leisure spaces of online dating as a specific avenue of technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV). Yet, limited attention is paid to survivors’ experie...
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Chicano Park’s Skateboard Memorial Murals: Extending the Sacred in Polluted Leisure Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Andrea Buchetti, Paul O’Connor
This paper explores the transformation of murals at San Diego’s Chicano Park Skatepark into sites of spiritual struggle. We observe the extension of spiritual identification through skateboarding a...
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Parting Thoughts XXVI: Leisure, Loss, and Death Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Rasul A. Mowatt, Rudy Dunlap, Justin Harmon
Published in Leisure Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Vol. 46, No. 6, 2024)
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Polish Family Leisure: Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the Family Leisure Activity Profile (FLAP) Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Beata Pluta, Magdalena Krzykała, Joanna Śniadek, Bernadetta Hołderna-Mielcarek, Iryna Sharaievska, Jasmine Townsend
The main goal of this study was to present the validity and reliability indices of the Polish version of the FLAP scale. Psychometric properties of the Polish version of the FLAP were evaluated usi...
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An Exploratory Study of Silver Taekwondo as Serious Leisure and Successful Aging Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Minhwa Seo, Sua Im, Jasmyn Kim, Jinmoo Heo
This study explored older adults’ successful aging experiences through Taekwondo through a phenomenological design in which semi-structured interviews were used. The participants were recruited fro...
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Curating the Self-Identity: Tabletop Game Hobbyist Online Practices as an Extended Leisure Experience Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Ville Kankainen
This interdisciplinary study investigates how networked online media facilitates meaning-making and identity (re)construction in distinctively material leisure. It presents a detailed and empirical...
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The ‘Goggle-Box’ Recording Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Edward Loveman
This methodological article introduces and evaluates the use of the ‘Goggle-box’ recording as an ethnographic data collection method. Simply put, the method means video-recording participants watch...
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Parting Thoughts XXVII: “What is so special about ‘whiteness’?” The perennial desire to be white in tourism Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Ranjan Bandyopadhyay
Published in Leisure Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Vol. 46, No. 7, 2024)
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Contesting the production of safer leisure spaces for queer youth: Addressing oppositional sexism and experiencing psychic affirmation Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Fenton Litwiller
This manuscript unpacks some of the ways psychic affirmation (e.g. pleasure in one’s gender), heteronormativity, and oppositional sexism operated in recreation spaces that were intentionally design...
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Can Residents Access Leisure Spaces in Our City: Investigating the Leisure Space Distribution in Seoul, South Korea Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Hyun-Young Jin, Junhee Cho, Yujin Kim, Lisa Lim
The preferred spaces for leisure activities across all age groups in Seoul, South Korea, and the age inclusiveness of leisure spaces during the COVID-19 were investigated. The accessibility and dis...
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The Effect of Place Attachment and Leisure Identity on Wildland Stewardship Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Elena R. Thomas, William L. Rice, Christopher A. Armatas, Jennifer M. Thomsen
With increasing outdoor recreation participation in the U.S., managers face the challenge of balancing visitor experiences with the protection of natural resources. To address declining management ...
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“That Was My Power”: The Value of Physical Exercise for Migrant Women Managing Marital Breakdown Leisure Sciences (IF 2.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Alexandra Ridgway
Divorce is, for many, unsettling and, for some, it can even be traumatic. In rupturing a significant intimate relationship, divorce raises difficult questions regarding one’s sense of self and life...