Dividing limited time between work and leisure when both have their attractions is a common everyday decision. We provide a normative control-theoretic treatment of this decision that bridges economic and psychological accounts. We show how our framework applies to free-operant behavioural experiments in which subjects are required to work (depressing a lever) for sufficient total time (called ...

results two hundred and ninety-nine respondents completed the leisure time and marital conflict questionnaires. five major leisure patterns were identified accounting for 60.3% of the variance in data. the most dominant pattern was family-oriented activities (e.g. spending time with family outdoors and spending time with family indoors) and was negatively linked to marital conflict (standardize...

BACKGROUND Workers in Japan are not sufficiently active; however, it remains unclear how their leisure-time physical activity habits may be developed. This cross-sectional study investigated the relationship of age- and intensity-specific leisure-time physical activity in youth to adulthood leisure-time physical activity habits among Japanese workers. METHODS In 2012, 968 workers (333 males a...

To date, researchers from various disciplines have studies leisure time; most have focused on quality of leisure activity, psychological benefits of leisure, spiritual effect, thereby neglecting the effect of social classes on features and quality of the selected place. Third place is defined as a location outside of home or work that allows for social interaction and emotional support, regardl...

With the development of industry and technology, leisure time gains sociocultural importance. Leisure activities are an important predictor personal growth improvement quality life. The purpose this research is to examine patterns, but also reveal tendencies perspectives youth spending their time. 120 first second-cycle students University Sarajevo participated in research. results showed that ...