This paper introduces the recent revision of WLO Charter for Leisure. It presents background and underlying reasons revision, positions in global human rights system, examines its potentially significant role leisure policy, research practice. References are made to United Nations Universal Declaration Human Rights (UDHR), which includes leisure-related rights, International Covenant on Economi...

This study aim at the influence of college students’ exercise and leisure motivations on the leisure benefits while using the leisure involvement as a moderator. Whereby, the research tools used in this study included the application of leisure motivation scale, leisure involvement scale and leisure benefits scale, and a hierarchical regression analysis was performed by using a questionnaire-ba...

In recent years, China's leisure and entertainment market have developed rapidly, with various board games escape stores emerging in endlessly. Social media has become one of the important channels for industry to disseminate high-quality information consumers. However, whether social convey valid quality on services? What are most frequently mentioned topics media? We try answer these question...

current study basically aims at exploring the motives behind watching persian satellite channels among female audience in city of qaemshahr. participants are 263 female audiences from qaemshahr which were selected based on purposive sampling. the research method employed here is survey, and a researcher-developed questionnaire was used to collect data, one-sample t-test, anova, and friedman tes...

Various new forms of entertainment using information and media technologies have emerged and been accepted among people all over the world. Casual and serious games, as well as communication using mobile phones, blogs, and Twitter, are such kinds of new entertainment. It is important to discuss the basic characteristics of such entertainment and to understand the direction to which these new fo...

The purpose of this study is to determine the youth generation leisure time as an important factor in reducing their inclination toward drug use in North Khorasan Province, by comparing drug addicted youth in addiction treatment centers of Social Welfare Organization with other non-addicted youth. This was a survey study and a questionnaire was used for data collection. The data was analyzed by...