author: robert a stebbins

Leisure and the Motive to Volunteer: Theories of Serious, Casual, and Project-Based Leisure

... motives for starting and continuing to volunteer. Five types of motives were identified in the data: altruistic, psychological, behavioral, social, and instrumental. The authors found that respondents' motivations are dynamic. This is ...

Leisure Education: A Cross-National View

... leisure education model developed by Peterson and Gunn (1984) includes four components: leisure awareness; skill development; interaction skills; and leisure resources. Process. The process perspective treats leisure education as a ...

The Pivotal Role of Leisure Education: Finding Personal Fulfillment in this Century

... AWARENESS No Is leisure important for you ? STEP 1A : LEISURE AWARENESS How can leisure be beneficial ? Yes STEP 2A : SELF - AWARENESS No At the present time , is your leisure practice satisfactory ? STEP 2B : SELF - AWARENESS What place ...

Leisure’s Legacy: Challenging the Common Sense View of Free Time

... leisure in the twenty-first century. Here we find, for instance, the highly-profitable theme parks, spectator sports events, and ocean cruises. The common sense images of leisure do include some awareness of its provision through ...

The Serious Leisure Perspective: An Introduction

... awareness and responsibility in library, information and documentation – Commentary on the SCARLID colloquium. In W.B. Rayward (ed.), Aware and Responsible: Papers ofthe Nordic-International Colloquium on Social and Cultural Awareness ...

The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations

... IVs in attempts to explain pro-social behavior, or volunteering, as one DV type of such behavior (e.g., Dovidio et al., 2006; Keltner et al., 2014; Mikulincer and Shaver 2009; Penner 2000; Penner and Finkelstein, 1998). Such integrated ...

Amateurs: Margin Between Work & Leisure

... Baseball Congress ( AABC ) . As a member of the Congress ' Stan Musial Division , each team must operate by certain rules . For example , its players , to be eligible for participation , must reside or work in the community . They are ...

Laugh-Makers: Stand-Up Comedy as Art, Business, and Life-Style

... comedy was becoming more profound , returning to the substantial wit of ... comedy is lost once presented . We can only watch and appreciate the antics of the ... monologues and narrative jokes of the modern comic fit the bill perfectly ...

The Committed Reader: Reading for Utility, Pleasure, and Fulfillment in the Twenty-first Century

... IKEA sofa-bed you just bought, you do so at your peril should you plunge ahead without reading the accompanying instructions ... frame of mind. Such an argument, if followed to its logical conclusion, suggests that technologically distracted ...

Exploratory Research in the Social Sciences

Robert Stebbins addresses an area of social science that receives scant attention: exploration as a methodological process. The author emphasises its importance then leads the reader through the process in a highly readable way.

Leisure Lifestyles: Organizing Everyday Life for Fun and Fulfillment

Organizing Everyday Life for Fun and Fulfillment Robert A. Stebbins. 1. LEISURE. LIFESTYLE. THEORY. AND. RESEARCH. As a concept, lifestyle ... definition of lifestyle guiding this book fits these broad images well: ...a distinctive set of ...

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