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Leisure Ex Machina: The Leisure Lives of Digital Minds Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) 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 5.008) 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 5.008) 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 5.008) 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 5.008) 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 5.008) 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 5.008) 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 5.008) 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 5.008) 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 5.008) 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 5.008) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Rasul A. Mowatt, Rudy Dunlap, Justin Harmon
Published in Leisure Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Polish Family Leisure: Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the Family Leisure Activity Profile (FLAP) Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) 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 5.008) 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 5.008) 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 5.008) 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 5.008) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Ranjan Bandyopadhyay
Published in Leisure Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Ahead of Print, 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 5.008) 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 5.008) 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 5.008) 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 5.008) 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...
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Leisure Studies Researchers: Gender Biased or Balanced? Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Sarah Carr, Neil Carr
Universities have traditionally been bastions of male dominance. As women have argued, lobbied and fought for recognition and equality within academia, a veneer of equality has developed. However, ...
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Leisure, Loss, and Death: Probing Intersections in Research Narratives Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Tomas Pernecky, Anne Hardy
Encounters with loss and death are an inherent part of human existence and a significant element in the tapestry of leisure. This article concludes the special issue of Leisure Sciences on ‘Leisure...
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Digital Leisure among Older Adults: Connections to Social Support, Flow, and Social Inclusion Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Liang-Chih Chang, John Dattilo, Fei-Hsin Huang
Although digital leisure may help older adults experience social support, flow, and social inclusion, it is unknown if flow mediates the relationship between social support and social inclusion in ...
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Tourists at Work: Outstation Leisure Behavior of Airline Cabin Crew Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Tien-Ming Cheng, I-Chih Lin, Wei-Hsiang Lien
During airline cabin crew members’ time abroad, although they are on duty and relevant laws and regulations regulate their behaviors, they still have free time for leisure. This circumstance gives ...
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New Horizons in Loss and Death Research in Leisure Studies Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Tomas Pernecky, Anne Hardy
Death is among the few certainties of life. Although personal and societal attitudes about death are varied and complex, death can act as a catalyst for action, resulting in a somber, affirmative, ...
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Ephemerality in Personal Memory Travel: Encountering the Changing Environment Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Andreja Trdina, Maruša Pušnik
This article approaches personal memory travels with the aim of investigating people’s encounters with the changing environment in relation to time. It centers on the intra-actions with perceptual ...
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Leisure Activities are Associated with Self-Efficacy in Childhood and Adolescence Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Gunter Kreutz, Michael Feldhaus, Suvi Saarikallio
Leisure activities during childhood and adolescence play important roles in individual development. They may also contribute to self-efficacy (SE), which is a key psychological construct of Bandura...
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A Cross-Cultural Research on Natural Tourists’ Behavioral Intentions Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Chieh-Lu Li, Hungchih Alvin Yu, Keng Yu Liu, Tzung-Cheng Huan
Comparative research on park patrons with distinctive cultures or ethnicities has been one line of cross-cultural research in the recreation field in recent decades. The critical issue for such res...
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Restructuring Priorities: Rethinking Economic Growth for a More Active Future Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Robert J Noonan
Physical inactivity is among the most formidable public health challenges of our time. The World Health Organization recently revealed that physical inactivity is on the rise and predicted that glo...
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A Phenomenological Exploration of the Intersectionality of Body Image and Identity of Female Rugby Players Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Jasmyn Kim, Sua Im, Justin Y. Jeon, Jinmoo Heo
Contemporary society emphasizes masculine norms in sports, contradicting ideals of femininity and hindering women’s participation in contact sports such as rugby. In addition to underrepresentation...
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Not of This World – Death and Loss in Himalayan Mountaineering Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Jase Wilson
This paper examines the narratives of three deceased high-altitude mountaineers who lost their lives while climbing in the Greater Himalaya. These individuals were participants in part of a larger ...
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Parting Thoughts: Listening to Place-Titled Classic Songs as Recreational and Beyond Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Zhiwei (CJ) Lin
Published in Leisure Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Downward Spiral of Fear of Failure in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Practitioners Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Fred Williams, Allison B. Smith
As sport and failure are unavoidable and part of the nature of the sport experience, understanding how one navigates failure is an important area of research. Guided by Interpretive Phenomenologica...
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Glocalizing Action in the Anthropocene: Understanding the Potential Roles of Sport for Development and Peace Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Eva Soares Moura, David Scott
The Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) sector employs sport to stimulate social and personal development beyond sports. However, limited attention has been given to environmental sustainability ...
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Exploring Parental Experiences and Meaning of Involvement within Youth Sport: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Keetyn Maxwell, Shannon Kerwin
By applying an interpretative phenomenological analysis approach, the purpose of the study was to explore the lived experience of parental involvement in youth sport and the meaning the involvement...
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Visitors’ Satisfaction and Loyalty toward Protected Areas: Exploring the Role of Motivations and Perceived Quality Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Luís Filipe Silva, José Cadima Ribeiro, Francisco Carballo-Cruz
Visitor satisfaction and loyalty are critical for the sustainability of protected areas (PAs). However, there is a substantial knowledge gap regarding the dynamic influences of motivation and perce...
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Blossoming: Finding a New Identity after the Loss of a Spouse Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Sarah Standridge, Rudy Dunlap, Doug Kleiber
The passing of a spouse is a difficult life event that many older women face. This study focuses on the transition period and the implications for the life left to live. Semi-structured interviews ...
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Understanding the Outcomes of Associational Involvement in Football Fan Clubs: Assessing the Validity of Socialization and Selection Hypotheses Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Alex C. Gang, Ju Young Lee, Robert B. Griffin, Paul M. Pedersen
This study examined how associational engagement within a football fan club renders influence on individual members’ extended civic participation. In order to present evidence whether such an effec...
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The Effect of Centrality to Lifestyle and Experience-Involvement on Tourist Behavioral Intention: A Comparison of Hotel vs Hostel Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Margarida Maia, Álvaro Dias, Leandro Pereira
A tourist has an authentic and memorable experience when the experience plays a central role in lifestyle and experience involvement. As such, this study aims to investigate the role of centrality ...
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Physical Accessibility of Integrated Resort Facilities to Older Adults: Linking Perceived Facilitators, Constraints, and Universal Design Principles Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Yim King Penny Wan
This paper examines the physical accessibility of integrated resort (IR) facilities to older adults, by applying the theory of leisure constraint and facilitator, and principles of universal design...
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Correction Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-11-21
Published in Leisure Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Perceptions of Digital Leisure among Parents with Adolescents Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Estefanía de los Dolores Gil García, Pedro Francisco Alemán Ramos, Juan Carlos Martín Quintana
Digital leisure is the main reason for the use of technology of adolescents and parents. This study aims to discover the perception of digital leisure amongst parents and to analyze whether their p...
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Polluted Leisure Enskilment: Skateboarding as Ecosophy Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Brian Glenney
Pollution makes some leisure activities not only possible but pleasurable, an analysis known as “polluted leisure.” In this paper, I extend this analysis with case examples of leisure participants ...
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Phenomenology of Leisure Travel following Death of a Loved One Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Uditha Ramanayake, Alison McIntosh, Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten
This paper advances knowledge around the intersection of death, loss, and leisure travel. Our phenomenological study revealed the lived experiences of seven senior travelers who had traveled intern...
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Fanship as a Form of Liminoid Leisure Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Liselle Milazzo
Utilizing Turner’s (1974a) theoretical framework of liminoidity, this research analyzes leisure experiences by Harry Potter fans visiting the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida. Li...
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Young Adults’ Acceptance of Later-Life Sexuality Is Predicted by Their General Sexual Attitudes and Viewing Sex as Leisure Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Liza Berdychevsky, Iulia Fratila
Ageism is entrenched in the contemporary Western society, rendering later-life sexuality negligible and limiting intergenerational understanding of lifespan sexual well-being. This cross-sectional ...
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Together-in-Time Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Chris E. Hurst
The Anthropocene offers an opportunity to (re)imagine and enact futures that care for the geological and ecological times and temporal rhythms of kin, and to expand beyond human politics of time. T...
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Campfire Smoke and the Anthropocene Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Anna Medlin, Chris A. B. Zajchowski
Homo sapiens burned wood for warmth and cooking for hundreds of thousands of years. The empiricism that dominates the Anthropocene, however, illuminates the harmful impact of wood smoke on human he...
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Commodified Death as the Ultimate Outcome of Social Inequalities: An Analysis of the Squid Game Discourse Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Elisabeth Beaunoyer
This paper explores how death is represented in the popular Netflix television series Squid Game. While death is an overarching theme in this series, there is one feature of its storytelling that s...
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Escapism or Integration? Family Constellations Reflecting on the Leisure-Time Physical Activity of Adults Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Henna M. Leino, Leila Hurmerinta, Birgitta Sandberg, Sami Kokko, Jari Lyytimäki, Petri Tapio, Tommi Vasankari
Insufficient physical activity is an increasing threat to personal well-being and public health. While significant research has focused on the factors that encourage or restrict physical activity, ...
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How Do Compulsory Volunteer Experiences at Sporting Events Help Improve Sport Participation and Life Satisfaction? Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Heetae Cho, Hyoung-Kil Kang
Education programs in many countries include voluntary experiences that have been made compulsory requirements. However, the positive effect of this has not yet been identified in the field of leis...
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Carving Lines through Melting Lands: A Diffractive Engagement with Troubled and Troubling Relations of Alpine Skiing in the Anthropocene Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Monica Nadegger
This study conceptualizes alpine skiing as a troubled and troubling leisure practice in the context of the Anthropocene. It employs a critical feminist new materialist lens and a diffractive method...
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Liminality, Leisure, and Lego®: Using a Leisure-Based Creative Methodology to Support Children and Young People Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-10-22 Holly Henderson, Richard Shipway
This paper demonstrates how liminality provides a core framework for understanding the processes and practices through which Lego® Serious Play® can positively influence the student experience and ...
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Home-Destination Spillover Effects in Health-Related Spa Activities: The Case of Thermal Baths Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Antonio-Angel Moreno-González, Carmelo J. León, Carlos Fernández-Hernández
The spillover effects of tourists’ behavior from home to destination are relevant to understanding market preferences and to designing targeted promotion actions intended to improve tourists’ wellb...
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Fear City, Cop City and Others Tales, a Call for Police Research Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Rasul Mowatt
It has been noted that crime and enforcement are likely a defining part of an evolving leisure experience. The aims of this manuscript were to call for research to focus on this phenomenon of the s...
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Visitors’ Perceived Crowding, Visual Attention, and COVID Infection Risks in National Parks: A Social Density Optimization Approach Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Peizhe Li, Xiao Xiao, Hongsong Peng
The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the complexity of national park visitors’ perceived crowding and visual attention. Decision support frameworks are needed to monitor, quantify, and forecast vi...
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Exploring the Role of Quality Tourism Experiences as a Driver of Quality of Life through Personal Lifestyle Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Bárbara Sofía Pasaco-González, Ana María Campón-Cerro, José Manuel Hernández-Mogollón, Elide Di-Clemente
Tourism experiences have been recognized for their transformative potential and contributing to improving tourists’ quality of life. Despite this, little is known about the factors that trigger the...
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Leisure and Human Rights … or Social Justice? Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 A. J. Veal
This paper notes the recent increased interest of leisure researchers in the concepts of human rights and social justice, with social justice being particularly favored by North America researchers...
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Flirting with Death: Finitude, Tradition, and Leisure during the COVID-19 Pandemic Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Jane Hurly
In this hermeneutic phenomenological study I explored and interpreted the lived experiences of leisure of 11 African women immigrants living in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic before the availa...
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Understanding and Reducing Conflict over the Recreational Use of Rivers Leisure Sciences (IF 5.008) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Charlotte I. M. Brockington, Tavi Murray, Fiona Buttrey, David Charlesworth, Sofia Consuegra, Carlos Garcia de Leaniz
The societal benefits of having greater access to rivers are numerous, but conflict sometimes ensues between recreational users. Using Wales as a case example, we conducted a survey to better under...