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The Experience of Leisure in Adolescence
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This article investigates the psychological dimensions of leisure for adolescents, examining their experience of freedom, intrinsic motivation and positive affect in free time versus productive and maintenance activities. In addition, it examines the degree of challenge and concentration in such activities in order to consider the preparation they provide for serious adult roles. Following the procedures of the experience sampling method, 75 adolescents provided 4,489 self-reports on various dimensions of experience during their daily lives. As expected, in free time activities the adolescents reported experiencing greater freedom, intrinsic motivation and positive affect than in productive and maintenance activities, while they reported higher degrees of challenge and concentration in productive rather than free time activities. However, several free time activities, specifically, sports and games and arts and hobbies, were higher on concentration and challenge than all other activities. Contrasted with the more “relaxed leisure” of activities such as socializing and television watching, these more structured activities are seen as “transitional” in being similar in their demand characteristics to the serious activities of adult roles.
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- Authors
- Kleiber, D., Larson, R., & Csikszentmihalyi, M.
- Venue
- Journal of Leisure Research
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1986-07
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 169-176
- ISSN
- 0022-2216 (ISSN-L)
- 2159-6417
- OpenAlex
- W4243670177
- Cited by
- 184
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 4.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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