juvenile delinquency can be considered as an important issue in the social sciences. also, the adolescents' leisure activities are important subjects which have been studied in the social sciences and humanities. this study assessed the relationship between leisure activities and delinquency among 610 male and female high school student in the city of shiraz. the questionnaire consists of two s...

objectives: the aim of this study was to explain the various style of leisure activity and recreation of elderly people in tehran. methods & materials: to achieve this purpose, 17 older participants within the age range of 65-86 years who were selected through purposeful sampling undertook semi structured interviews. a conventional qualitative content analysis was used for analyzing the data. r...

Young people have rarely been studied in the field of second-home research as active subjects, although they play an influential part contemporary tourism. Based on semi-structured interviews, this study seeks to address scholarly gap existing literature by analysing experiences of, and attitudes towards, living among 12- 17-year-old dwellers vacationing Mäntyharju, Finland. The focuses environ...

diversity in natural aspects for relaxation, entertainment as well as recreational opportunities associated with walking, sightseeing, camping near wells, qanats, and springs to spend leisure time and to enjoy landscapes, represents the recreational values which can be perceived due to surface water limitations. recreational value of water includes the benefits derived from those who leave wate...

The prevalence of obesity has become a primary risk factor for adolescents’ health, which is an essential in poverty reduction and sustainable development. Physical activity can help adolescents reduce keep healthy body mass index (BMI). We analyze the 2010 National Youth Activity Nutrition Survey (NYPANS) U.S. school students from 9th to 12th grades (aging 12 18). A latent variable analysis ex...

despite the interest in sport and physical activities in iran, its role in spending the leisure time of various groups in the society is insignificant. therefore, the aim of this research is to study and identify the patterns of spending the leisure time with emphasize on physical activities and sport at ilam university. this study is a descriptive and a kind of field study. the statistical soc...

the leisure is a new phenomenon has emerged of the industrial revolution and socio-economic developments of the current world. how the people of a society spend their leisure times could in a large extent show the cultural characteristics and lifestyle of the community. the most important aspects of the lifestyle which emerged of urban development and modernity, is the mode of spending the leis...