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{"title":"Neoliberalism’s influence on recreation access provisions: Municipal recreation practitioners’ perspectives","authors":"Jackie Oncescu, Megan Fortune","doi":"10.1080/00222216.2022.2044942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2022.2044942","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examined neoliberalism’s influence on how access provisions are conceptualized and designed by municipal recreation practitioners. Specific attention is paid to how neoliberalism intersects with practitioners’ conceptualizations and administration of recreation access provisions for low-income citizens. Sixteen municipal recreation practitioners in Atlantic Canada were interviewed. Our findings indicated that practitioners viewed access to municipal recreation for low-income citizens predominantly in terms of financial resources and needing to break down several barriers. Further, four types of recreation access provisions for low-income citizens were administered by practitioners, including fee assistance programs, subsidies for all, one-off scenarios, and robust alternative supports.","PeriodicalId":51428,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leisure Research","volume":"5 12","pages":"89 - 108"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41246554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction to theme issue on outdoor recreation and parks","authors":"P. Heintzman","doi":"10.1080/00222216.2022.2044205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2022.2044205","url":null,"abstract":"next as they to urban parks. The a methodological","PeriodicalId":51428,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leisure Research","volume":"53 1","pages":"329 - 330"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45373637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: A galvanizing force for the study of experience in the context of leisure","authors":"D. Kleiber","doi":"10.1080/00222216.2021.2022416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2021.2022416","url":null,"abstract":"Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who died this past year, was arguably the foremost progenitor of the study of experience in the interdisciplinary field of leisure studies. “Mike C,” as he was happy to be called by all, readily introduced his work on intense enjoyment, or what he represented as flow experience, into the field’s lexicon. As the psychology of leisure was also emerging at the time, with the work of John Neulinger, Seppo IsoAhola and others, Csikszentmihalyi’s Beyond Boredom and Anxiety (1975) gave this subfield a ‘phenomenology’ to accompany the rather vague terms of intrinsic motivation and perceived freedom that were seen as definitional for leisure to be leisure. This phenomenology—ultimately to be informed as it was by groundbreaking applications of “beeper” (pager) technology in his Experience Sampling Method (Csikszentmihalyi & Larson, 1987)—anticipated the study of involvement, engagement, absorption and immersion that have become the primary foci of those such as Mat Duerden (2022) who are identifying and cultivating the best of leisure experience, i.e., “optimal” leisure experience, in seeking ways to promote and design for it. Csikszentmihalyi’s earliest work, though, was based on interview studies by people in both work and leisure contexts who could talk about being so involved in their activity that their thoughts and actions seemed to ‘flow along’ seamlessly (“flow” being an emic word with those he interviewed). In his earliest studies, these people included surgeons as well as rock climbers and painters. On a personal note, I reached out to him about an unpublished paper of his on rock climbing I discovered while I was studying extracurricular activities as an educational psychology doctoral student in the early 1970s; and some ten years later, while on the leisure studies faculty at the University of Illinois, I invited him to be a keynote speaker for a conference we were holding there and subsequently joined Reed Larson and him in analyzing their ESM data on adolescents in an article for JLR (Kleiber et al., 1986). Once the academic leisure studies community discovered his work on leisure activities, Csikszentmihalyi was invited to do university and conference talks all over North America. In those presentations he was likely to address the ambiguity of leisure as a context that was most “pure” when action was voluntary and enjoyable and incorporated structured activity. But the only experience he consistently associated with leisure itself was the feeling of freedom, i.e., the “free” in free time. He never equated optimal experience with “the leisure experience” as some do. Indeed, his subsequent work with the ESM (moving from pagers to programmable watches for random experience","PeriodicalId":51428,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leisure Research","volume":"53 1","pages":"187 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41887667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Remaining relevant, visible and vibrant: Embracing experience","authors":"W. Hendricks","doi":"10.1080/00222216.2021.2022415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2021.2022415","url":null,"abstract":"As an educator and administrator in the recreation, parks, and tourism discipline for nearly 30 years, I have had the good fortune of observing first-hand many of the trends, triumphs, and struggles that we as a collective community have confronted. In the late 1970s, I chose recreation administration with a specialization in parks and natural resources as my undergraduate major literally a few months before the passage of Proposition 13 in California that ended two decades of what many considered to be the heyday of public parks and recreation (Talmage et al., 2017). Suddenly, the job prospects plummeted for those of us pursuing a recreation-related degree. Nevertheless, many recreation educators around the country adjusted and re-envisioned their academic programs to prosper for the coming decades. During the ensuing decade of the 1980s, commercial recreation burst upon the scene largely spurred by the seminal work of Bullaro and Edgington’s (1986) Commercial Leisure Services: Managing for Profit, Service, and Personal Satisfaction. Shortly thereafter, others followed, filling the void in this emerging area of our discipline as evidenced by the first edition of Introduction to Commercial and Entrepreneurial Recreation (Crossley & Jamieson, 1988). As we entered the 1990s, the study of tourism expanded significantly, and many tourism scholars found a home in recreation-related academic departments. To coincide with this shift, Crossley and his colleagues revised the title and focus of the fourth through seventh editions (Crossley et al., 2018) of their book Introduction to Commercial Recreation and Tourism: An Entrepreneurial Approach. The 1990s also saw a shift away from leisure as a descriptor of academic department names including some of the leading doctoral degree granting programs in the United States such as Texas A&M University, the University of Utah, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Fast forward to the 21st century and event planning, hospitality, and sport management have been added to the mix for many recreation-related academic programs in North America and beyond. Again, revitalization, renewal, and embracing change propelled many academic programs to growth, innovation, and a new wave of opportunity. How is this evolution over the past 1=2 century relevant to Duerden’s (2022) thesis that it is time to contemplate a change from a leisure context to experience focus? Change in our discipline has perhaps been the only constant. Time and time again, we have observed some traditional recreation-related academic programs decline in","PeriodicalId":51428,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leisure Research","volume":"53 1","pages":"183 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45603579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"It’s both experience and context, and that’s just leisure","authors":"Karla A. Henderson","doi":"10.1080/00222216.2021.2022414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2021.2022414","url":null,"abstract":"I agreed to write this discourse response when it appeared that the pandemic might be waning slightly, and before social justice protests became nation and world-wide. I had heard Mat Duerden present his paper at the 2019 NRPA Conference and I appreciated his logical and scholarly presentation of experience design/management. However, despite his well-articulated thesis and evidence of how well it was working at his university, I was no more convinced than before that this direction was the way to go in expanding and understanding our field. I thought it would be reasonably easy to react to the arguments Duerden (2022) presented, although I had some discomfort with whether or not I could add anything new to the discussion. In light of everything that has happened in 2020 related to Covid-19 and the continuing discussions of racial inequality and white privilege, I now wonder if a discussion about what we call leisure is really important in the big scope of the world in which we now live. It seems that issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), human health, and ecological sustainability ought to be where leisure scholars put their energy. I was even more convinced of this needed approach after reading many of the critical commentaries that appeared in the recent special issue of Leisure Sciences (Lashua et al., 2021). The authors of these commentaries challenged readers to re-think everything about leisure. Lashua et al. suggested that perhaps leisure should be re-appraised regarding what has been “uncritically accepted, environmentally unsustainable, and systematically oppressive during normal times” (p. 5). Therefore, although I applaud Duerden’s (2022) efforts, I believe more than ever the focus of leisure studies/sciences ought to be re-thinking how it contributes to a broader social and environmental agenda. It is not a matter of context or experience, but both and how they contribute to human and community growth and development. Duerden indicated that leisure ought “to play a role in helping individuals find meaning and fulfillment across the contexts of their lives” (p. 167) I do not dispute this idea, but I think professionals need to look upon the broader social implications of leisure. A focus on individual experience is not enough. The needed meanings of leisure must go beyond designing experiences to encompass questions about whose experience and what the consequences of such experiences are. The discussion is not an either/or question but both/ and. It is not about changing terminology or names of departments, but about the milieu of community life and how leisure contributes to social and environmental outcomes. I have been an advocate for focusing on making leisure a better understood concept for years. I have argued (e.g., Henderson, 2010, 2011) that leisure studies is not dead and that what researchers, educators, and practitioners need to do is to elevate its","PeriodicalId":51428,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leisure Research","volume":"53 1","pages":"180 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46799403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Meanings of traditional Chinese leisure: Perspectives from etymology, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism","authors":"Yuqiang Zhao, Yue Wu","doi":"10.1080/00222216.2021.2001702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2021.2001702","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Based on previous studies on traditional Chinese leisure thought, this paper presents an in-depth study of the etymology of leisure, 休閒, to explore the origins, meanings, and interrelationships of related words and the literature on these topics. The paper then discusses the connotations of traditional Chinese leisure from three perspectives: Confucian leisure based on morality and etiquette, Taoist naturalist leisure, and Buddhist leisure based on the wisdom of emptiness and the spiritual realm. Lastly, the paper points out that traditional Chinese leisure embodies the wisdom of the implementation of Tao in daily life, and illustrates Tao’s influence on Chinese leisure from earlier to current generations in four aspects: the attitude of following and imitating nature; the pursuit of the Golden Mean and the harmonious realm; the passive, quiet, introverted leisure style; and the ideal life that integrates work and leisure.","PeriodicalId":51428,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leisure Research","volume":"53 1","pages":"669 - 686"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43894029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction to theme issue on leisure and the family","authors":"P. Heintzman","doi":"10.1080/00222216.2021.2016321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2021.2016321","url":null,"abstract":"This Theme Issue on Leisure and the Family is a new initiative of the Journal of Leisure Research where accepted papers on the same theme are published together in the same issue. Unlike a special issue, where papers are submitted based on a call for papers on a specific topic, a Theme Issue contains papers that are submitted to the journal as regular papers but are then grouped together after acceptance and published in the same issue. Thus, a Theme Issue arises spontaneously when a number of papers on the same theme happen to be accepted around the same time. This first Theme Issue on the theme of Leisure and the Family begins with a paper by Izenstark and Middaugh (2022) titled “Patterns of family-based nature activities across the early life course and their association with adulthood participation and preference.” A significant limitation in research on the developmental outcomes of children’s exposure to the natural environment is the tendency to limit childhood nature experiences to one point in time. The authors address this deficiency by investigating continuity and change in familybased nature activity participation patterns in terms of activity type and frequency across the early life course, based on five developmental periods, and whether these early experiences are associated with adulthood preferences and participation. The next two papers in this theme issue are much more focused on mothers and specific leisure activities. In “Leisure reading experience promoting prenatal attachment among pregnant women: A moderated mediation model,” Nivedhitha and Geetha (2022), note that amongst women, leisure reading is the most frequently chosen leisure activity, and thus it has the potential to reduce stress and enhance positivity for expecting mothers. Thus, they construct a moderated mediation model to explain leisure reading’s indirect effects upon prenatal attachment. Liu, Jia, and Wang (2022) in “Yoga leisure and identity development of Chinese second-time mothers” note that while China adopted a universal two-child policy in 2016, Chinese second-time mothers experience challenges balancing family, career, and other life dimensions. Thus, they explore the role of yoga leisure in helping these mothers cope with these challenges and to reduce identity conflicts. The subsequent two papers concern widowhood and tragedy in the lives of women. Standridge, Dunlop, Kleiber, and Aday (2022), in a paper titled “Widowhood and leisure: An exploration of leisure’s role in coping and finding a new self,” report on in-depth interviews with 13 widows concerning their leisure activities as they adapted to the new reality of being a single woman. Leisure activities were sought out for changing needs (e.g., support, companionship, and distraction), to provide connections with women in similar circumstances, and as a means of personal evolution. In “Travel after tragedy—A phenomenological study on what it takes for women to travel solo after tragedy,” Sengu","PeriodicalId":51428,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leisure Research","volume":"53 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44680682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Associations Between Enjoyable Activities and Uplifting Events: Effects on Momentary Positive Affect in Adulthood.","authors":"Shang-Ti Chen, Jinshil Hyun, Alan R Graefe, David M Almeida, Andrew J Mowen, Martin J Sliwinski","doi":"10.1080/00222216.2021.1878002","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00222216.2021.1878002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined the effects of participation in enjoyable activities and the experience of uplifting events on individuals' momentary positive affect (PA) and tested for age differences in these effects. 176 adults (ages 25-66) completed ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) 5 times per day for 14 days. We found that individuals reported higher levels of PA at times when an uplifting event had occurred compared to times when an uplifting event had not occurred (<i>p</i> < 0.05), and this association was amplified among those who participated less frequently in enjoyable activities (<i>p</i> < 0.05). The moderating effect of participation in enjoyable activities was invariant across the sample's age range. The findings demonstrated that individuals who habitually participated in enjoyable activities experienced higher levels of PA in everyday life. In contrast, individuals who infrequently or never engaged in enjoyable activities depended upon recent uplifting events to experience higher levels of PA.</p>","PeriodicalId":51428,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leisure Research","volume":"53 2","pages":"211-228"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9534485/pdf/nihms-1835839.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10826345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Study on the role and internal mechanism of corporate leisure welfare in alleviating employee burnout","authors":"Lian Weifei, Shaoxiang Shi, Lin Yuan","doi":"10.1080/00222216.2021.1999781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2021.1999781","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Corporate leisure welfare (CLW) has become a widely adopted human resource management practice within companies. However, the relationship between CLW and employee burnout (EB) still lacks the necessary theoretical exploration and empirical evidence. Following the leisure on work (L-O-W) paradigm of leisure and work research, this study constructs a theoretical model based on effort-recovery theory and conservation of resources (COR) theory and then uses the propensity matching method (PSM), path analysis, bootstrap mediation and moderating effect tests to analyze the data. The results of the study indicate a significant mitigating effect of CLW provided by companies on EB. The benefits of leisure play an obvious mediating role in the relationship between CLW and EB. At the same time, there is a significant negative moderating effect of employee satisfaction with CLW on the process of mitigating EB.","PeriodicalId":51428,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leisure Research","volume":"53 1","pages":"705 - 727"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43569568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Sport Facilitators in Later Life Scale (SFLLS): Preliminary evidence of reliability and validity","authors":"Julie S. Son, Stephanie T. West, T. Liechty, Megan C. Janke, Jill J Juris, Jen D. Wong","doi":"10.1080/00222216.2021.1998813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2021.1998813","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of a newly proposed scale, the Sport Facilitators in Later Life Scale (SFLLS). Based on empirical work, the authors developed a 30-item scale to measure middle-aged and older adults’ recreational sport facilitators, including items on municipal parks- and recreation-based facilitators. Among a national sample of 1207 adults aged 50 and older, factor analysis supported a three-factor structure of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and structural facilitators, with interpersonal facilitators as the principal factor. Alpha coefficients indicated good reliability of the subscales and total scale. Measurement invariance tests using multigroup CFA indicated strict scale equivalence by age, gender, education, retirement status, and leisure-time physical activity (LTPA). Significant correlations and regressions provided further support for the validity of the scale. Additional scale refinement and psychometric testing should be undertaken to determine generalizability.","PeriodicalId":51428,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Leisure Research","volume":"53 1","pages":"643 - 666"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2021-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42948088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}