Advanced or Addicted? Exploring the Relationship of Recreation Specialization to Flow Experiences and Online Game Addiction Tsung-Chiung (Emily) Wu a , David Scott b & Chun-Chieh Yang c a Department of Tourism, Recreation and Leisure Studies , National Dong Hwa University , Hualien , Taiwan , ROC b Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences , Texas A&M University , College Station , TX...

Parks have long been sites for sexual activity, deviant behaviour, violence, and prostitution (Flowers, Hart, & Marriot, 1999; Humphreys, 1970; Mitchell, 1995). Yet leisure researchers have tended to leave these less socially acceptable activities unexamined, focusing their analyses instead on the “benefits” of leisure (Glover, 2003; Rojek, 1999, 2000). This research aims to deviate from the “b...

People with disability face many constraints that affect their participation in leisure and sports, which can be seen in the gaps in the scientific literature. This study aims to document the specific issues in the leisure and sports participation of people with disability in rural areas. Qualitative research has documented the rurality-related items. Overall, stakeholders (n = 35) working with...

This study attempted to identify factors that heiped to explain the subjective well-being of people with spinal cord injury (SCI). A hierarchical multiple regression equation was used to determine the proportion of observed variance in the subjective well-being explained by the independent variables (perceived freedom in leisure, free time boredom, frequency of recreation participation, watchin...

Using an Importance}Performance Analysis (IPA), this paper examined business and leisure travellers' perceived importance and performance of six hotel selection factors in the Hong Kong hotel industry. The six hotel selection factors identi"ed were: Service Quality, Business Facilities, Value, Room and Front Desk, Food and Recreation, and Security. Both business and leisure travellers held the ...

introduction: industrial lifestyle considered as one of the main problems of humanity, because it result in reduced mobility and activities of people. leisure time and the ways which is spent is a novel concepts which had been found its true meaning in accordance with rising  various technologies and industrialization of societies. nowedays, recreational sports with sports-related leisure time ...

Who ought to receive what? An instrument to assess a community's preferred strategy for allocating leisure service resources Stephanie T. West a & John L. Crompton b a Department of Health, Leisure and Exercise Science, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA b Department of Recreation, Park & Tourism Sciences, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA Published onlin...

Photovoice was used as a participatory research method to document perceived local environmental hazards, pollution sources, and potential impact on health among community members to address environmental health disparities. A convenience sample of 16 adults in Orangeburg, South Carolina participated in Photovoice. Photos depicted positive and negative implications of the environment across sev...