Effects of Social Capital and Leisure Participation on Self-Rated Health of Urban Residents in Southwest China

Background: Leisure provides opportunities for urban and rural residents to relax, recover their vitality, and improve their personal growth, development, and well-being. However, the impact of the leisure participation process, types, obstacles, participation motivation, and satisfaction on health is not very clear, especially the impact of leisure behavior on health, and is worthy of in-depth discussion.Objective: The objective of this study was to explore the impact of social capital and leisure participation on the self-rated health of urban residents in China so as to provide an important reference for national health promotion activities.Methods: the questionnaire on the relationship between social capital, leisure behavior, and self-rated health was compiled by ourselves. The residents participating in leisure and fitness in 25 residential fitness centers in Chengdu were investigated in the morning and evening, and the obtained data were processed by exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis.Results: (1) Social capital had no direct influence on leisure hindrance; leisure motivation and leisure participation had no direct influence on self-rated health. (2) Leisure satisfaction has a direct positive impact on self-rated health, while leisure hindrance has a significant negative impact on self-rated health. (3) Social capital has a direct positive impact on leisure satisfaction, and social capital has a direct positive impact on self-rated health. Leisure satisfaction plays an intermediary role in the path of social capital affecting self-rated health, and the intermediary force exceeds the direct impact of social capital on self-rated health.Conclusion: The effect of leisure satisfaction on self-rated health is higher than that of social capital, and it plays an intermediary role in the impact path of social capital on self-rated health. Therefore, how to make urban community residents with different backgrounds obtain leisure satisfaction through leisure activities is an important topic of national health promotion.

Evolution of recreational and leisure practices: from classical to creative consumerism

The purpose of the article is to investigate the evolution of recreational and leisure practices from classical to creative consumerism. Methodology. To achieve this goal, methods such as abstraction and systemic and structural-functional analyzes were used to identify a complex picture of the formation of recreational and leisure practices on a broad cultural and historical background. The scientific novelty is that in the domestic cultural discourse for the first time the evolution of recreational and leisure practices is considered: from classical to creative consumerism. The article notes that recreational and leisure issues reflect the transformation of the gradual differentiation of society and the further development of the consumer society in the modes of classical and creative consumerism and are associated with the transition from Fordism to post-Fordism. Conclusions. In creative consumerism, forms of recreational and leisure practices are beginning to be seen as a sign of the individual taste and style of the consumer. There are creative spaces for the implementation of recreational and leisure practices – coworking and anti-cafes. The trends of recreational and leisure practices in the creative society of consumption are immersive productions, quests, creative event tourism, as vacationers are offered each time new scenarios and strategies of recreational and leisure behavior.

Canonical Correlation Analysis of Leisure Behavior and Satisfaction of Hearing Impaired College Students in Leisure Industry

With the transformation of various industries, a series of changes have taken place in the leisure industry. The college students with hearing impairment are a special group, and the quality of leisure life plays a decisive part of their physical and psychological development .In order to understand the relationship between leisure behavior and leisure satisfaction of hearing-impaired college students, 77 hearing-impaired college students from Leshan normal university were sampled by cluster to conduct a questionnaire survey. The results showed that the leisure behavior and leisure satisfaction of the hearing-impaired students were at medium level. Except for the correlation between recreation and health satisfaction, which is not remarkable, there is a significantly positive correlation between each dimension of leisure behavior and leisure satisfaction. The canonical correlation analysis showed that the influence of leisure behavior on leisure satisfaction was greater than that of leisure satisfaction on leisure behavior. Community organization and recreation in leisure behavior had positive effects on cognitive satisfaction.

Adolescents’ Physical Activity and the Association With Perceived Social Support of Parents and Peers in Indonesia

This study examined the trends of adolescents’ physical activity (PA) and its association with parental and peer support, based on the Indonesia Global School-Based Health Survey. Between 2007 and 2015, prevalence of PA in adolescents declined from 24.4% to 16.5%. Prevalence of active transportation (AT) decreased from 47.2% to 32.3%. Prevalence of sedentary leisure behavior (SLB) declined from 33.6% to 27.2%. Girls’ SLB was inversely associated with parental supervision SLB in 2007 (odds ratio [OR] = 0.49; 95% CI = 0.30-0.80) and in 2015 (adjusted OR [AOR] = 0.55; 95% CI = 0.43-0.71), and so was boys’ SLB in 2015 (OR = 0.75; 95% CI = 0.59-0.95). Boys’ AT was inversely associated with peer support in 2015 (OR = 0.73; 95% CI = 0.59-0.91). Parental control was associated with PA in girls (OR = 1.71; 95% CI = 1.23-2.37), in boys (OR = 1.65; 95% CI = 1.07-2.54), and with SLB among girls in 2015 (OR = 1.28; 95% CI = 1.11-1.47). Hence, adolescents’ PA was associated with perceived social support.

Loss of childcare and classroom teaching during the Covid-19-related lockdown in spring 2020: A longitudinal study on consequences on leisure behavior and schoolwork at home

Aim In spring 2020, the first Covid-19-related lockdown included the closing of kindergartens and schools. Home schooling, the lack of social contacts with peers and the care of the children at home posed an enormous challenge for many families. Methods The present study investigated the leisure behavior of 285 one- to 10-year-old German children at two time points (t1 and t2) during the Covid-19-related lockdown in spring 2020. In the subsample of primary school children (n = 102), we also explored children’s attitudes towards schoolwork at home. Analyses focused on the change of behavior from t1 to t2, on differences in these changes depending on socio-economic status (SES), and on associations of behavior with SES, the number of children at home, and the frequency of receiving learning materials from school. Results While the frequency of playing outside increased significantly from t1 to t2, the frequency of handicrafts, playing board games, indoor sports, and motivation to do schoolwork decreased. The observed changes between t1 and t2 did not differ depending on SES. However, a lower SES was associated with higher media use, less outdoor activity, and (though only marginally significant) a reduced time doing schoolwork and a reduced ability to concentrate on schoolwork at t1. In households with more children, children played outside more often, but were read to less frequently and (though only marginally significant) watched movies and series less frequently. Children receiving learning materials from school on a regular basis spent significantly more time doing schoolwork at home than children receiving materials only irregularly. Conclusions A continuing loss of childcare in day-care facilities and schools entails the danger of declining education in the form of (inter)active indoor activities and schoolwork.

Hailing Hunters: Leisure and Class Ideology in Amadís de Gaula

This article argues that the hunting scenes in Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo’s 1508 novel Amadís de Gaula function as Althusserian hailing devices that interpellate nobles through the representation of a class-specific leisure behavior, thereby reinforcing a hierarchical class ideology. Moreover, this interpretation affords insights into the ideological motivations of period critics, whose moralistic condemnations of Amadís may be read as part of a broader effort to achieve social mobility through the promotion of meritocratic values and the critique of traditional conceptions of aristocratic class identity.

Volunteering and Leisure Activity in the United Kingdom: A Longitudinal Analysis of Males and Females

Theory recognizes the need to account for the allocation of time across activities as a potential constraint on volunteering. Drawing on the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), for the first time, this article examines the decision to volunteer by males and females accounting for their engagement in other leisure activities that also involve discretionary time. Instrumental variable panel-data estimates reveal that it is only for females that volunteering is influenced by the choice of other leisure activities. This implies that males have more autonomy over their volunteering decision relative to their other leisure behavior compared with females. For males, this greater autonomy suggests that volunteering is more closely linked to the concept of “serious leisure” and a form of work as it is more distinct from other leisure activities. These differences have implications for volunteer recruitment.