Impact of casual leisure on serious leisure experiences and identity in a Canadian junior hockey context

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley MacCosham ◽  
Francois Gravelle
2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiangyou Sharon Shen ◽  
Careen Yarnal

Author(s):  
Yazdan Mansourian

The study sought to find out to what extent engagement with serious leisure, in this case, bonsai growing, can help people deal with challenging times, such as a global pandemic. In particular, how bonsai enthusiasts use their hobbies to manage uncertainty and stress during the lockdown and how they have shared their lived experiences on this topic via social media. The researcher employed a user-generated contents analysis approach to address the questions and explored a collection of comments from a sample of the most visited bonsai videos posted during the pandemic. The serious leisure perspective has been used as a theoretical framework to conceptualise the data based on the qualities that differentiate serious leisure from casual leisure. The findings showed that engagement in this hobby helps bonsai enthusiasts to develop social connectedness and cope with their stress caused by the pandemic.


Retos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 375-383
Author(s):  
Leonardo Andrés Aguirre-Cardona ◽  
Isabel Rubio-Florido ◽  
Edwin Alberto Puerto-Rodríguez

 The studies, analysis, reflections and positions regarding the leisure-work relationship is not new and is current, although sometimes it is not tangible and visible at first glance, even more so when the young population in Colombia takes advantage of distance and virtual education to be able to work and generate income and thus pay for a study; Thus, it was sought to analyze the incidence of working and studying simultaneously in the leisure time and spaces of students in distance and virtual mode of the Minuto de Dios-Uniminuto University Corporation in Bogotá-Colombia. Methodologically, the study was executed from a non-experimental, cross-sectional-descriptive design, an on-line questionnaire-type information collection instrument was used with categories: serious leisure, casual leisure, digital leisure and satisfaction with leisure time. A representative sample of 486 students was used with a standard deviation of .5, a confidence level of 98% and an acceptable sample error limit of .05 for a population size of 12096 students. The incidence of students working and studying simultaneously in distance and virtual modes is reflected in a recurrence that tends to be medium to low in the development of activities of serious leisure, casual leisure and digital leisure; However, satisfaction with leisure time is high, with which it can be inferred that leisure manages to fulfill a restorative function in terms of well-being. Resumen: Los estudios, análisis, reflexiones y posturas frente a la relación ocio-trabajo no es nueva y está vigente, aunque en ocasiones no sea tangible y visible a primera vista, más aún cuando la población joven en Colombia aprovecha la educación a distancia y virtual para poder trabajar y generar ingresos económicos y así solventar un estudio, es así que se buscó analizar la incidencia de trabajo y estudio simultáneo en los tiempos y espacios de ocio de estudiantes en modalidad a distancia y virtual de la Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios-Uniminuto en Bogotá-Colombia. Metodológicamente, el estudio fue abordado desde un diseño no experimental, de tipo transversal-descriptivo, se utilizó un instrumento de recolección de información tipo cuestionario on-line a partir de las categorías de ocio serio, ocio casual, ocio digital y satisfacción con los tiempos de ocio. Se trabajó con una muestra representativa de 486 estudiantes teniendo en cuenta una desviación estándar de .5, un nivel de confianza del 98% y un límite aceptable de error muestral de .05 para un tamaño de población de 12096 estudiantes. La incidencia de trabajo y estudio simultáneo de los estudiantes en modalidad a distancia y virtual, se refleja en una recurrencia que tiende a ser media y baja en el desarrollo de actividades de ocio serio, ocio casual y ocio digital; no obstante, la satisfacción con los tiempos de Ocio, es alta, con lo que se puede inferir que, el ocio logra cumplir una función restaurativa en términos de bienestar.


Author(s):  
Saulo Neves Oliveira ◽  
Johannes Doll

O presente artigo visa apresentar o serious leisure, do sociólogo Robert A. Stebbins. Trata-se de uma proposição teórica sobre uma forma de lazer que, aliada a outras duas formas – casual leisure e project-based leisure –, constituem uma perspectiva teórica mais ampla. Apresentamos uma síntese de cada uma dessas três formas e acrescentamos um levantamento inicial que fizemos sobre os estudos brasileiros que se utilizaram dessa teoria em suas análises sobre atividades de lazer. O objetivo é oferecer dados iniciais para interessados em desenvolver estudos sobre o serious leisure ou mesmo sobre as outras duas formas de lazer. Também visamos acrescentar elementos que podem ser úteis às discussões sobre atividades que poucas vezes são enfocadas através de teorias classicamente utilizadas no Brasil. Por fim, tecemos nossas considerações sobre a relativa ausência de uma perspectiva sobre o lazer, a do serious leisure que entendemos como merecedora de atenção, compreensão e análise, visando incrementar amplamente o desenvolvimento e os debates sobre os estudos do lazer no Brasil.


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