BACKGROUND Occupational and leisure-time physical activity are considered to provide similar health benefits. The authors tested this hypothesis. METHODS A representative sample of Danish employees (n=7144, 52% females) reported levels of occupational and leisure-time physical activity in 2005. Long-term sickness absence (LTSA) spells of ≥3 consecutive weeks were retrieved from a social-trans...

Time and money are basic commodities in the utility function and are substitutes in real terms. To a certain extent, having time and money is a matter of either or, depending on individual preferences and budget constraints. At the same time, however, satisfaction with time and satisfaction with money are typically complements; i.e. individuals are equally satisfied with both domains. In this p...

Associations between children’s (N = 147) participation in structured leisure activities and their adjustment were examined. Caregivers provided lists of extracurricular activities (clubs, sports, and church activities) in which children participated. Children and caregivers participated in interviews and completed questionnaires designed to measure children’s adjustment in four domains (academ...

The aim of the present paper is to examine the incorporation of young people in the process of socialization in Greece during the first years of the 21 century. Based on models of leisure that is, non-working and non-educating time, will underline the contrast between leisure and working time. Whereas working time is considered as regulated by mechanisms of social control, leisure is considered...

This study tested the applicability of moderation and mediation models to leisure time as a stress coping resource. Analyzing eight-day diary data (N=2,022), we examined the within-person process of using leisure time to cope with daily stressors. We found that relatively high daily stress frequency, while reducing positive affect, prompted an individual to allocate more time to leisure than us...

BACKGROUND The main goals of this study were: (1) to examine the relationship between physical activity (PA) involvement and other leisure activities in a sample of Portuguese youth and (2) to analyze gender differences in PA and leisure-time activity structure. METHODS The sample comprised 1123 adolescents that were classified according to PA levels as active (n = 589) and nonactive (n = 534...

This study describes an ecological study that evaluated the combined effects of working hours, income, and leisure time on suicide in all 47 prefectures of Japan. In men, the age-adjusted rate of suicide (per 100,000 population) was significantly correlated with working hours (r=0.587, p<0.0001) as well as significantly and negatively correlated with income (r=-0.517, p=0.0002) and times for th...

Introduction Leisure continues to grow in importance in today’s society, as a construct of non-work time and the activities that attend our leisure. While researchers have explored the work context and everyday life contexts, the area of leisure in our information worlds has only recently attracted interest in library and information science (LIS). The impact of leisure on our everyday lives, i...