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...

This study aims to investigate the relationships between leisure involvement, well-being, the benefits of serious leisure activities, and self-actualization for 2011 Changhua National Games volunteers. It selects 265 sports volunteer workers who participated in the 2011 Changhua National Games using convenience sampling. The results of the study show: 1. Leisure activity involvement for the spo...

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 ...

In a heavily religious metropolis like Mashhad filling/enriching the female students’ leisure time is a challenge. Taking an educational-sporty approach, in the presently reported project, a sample of 250 female students from among all attending Imam Reza Schools in this city was given a questionnaire on how to enrich their leisure time. Based on the collected data, the students consider their ...

INTRODUCTION Internet use has become an increasingly common leisure time activity among Chinese citizens. The association between Internet use and engagement in leisure activities is especially unclear among China population. This study aims to investigate Internet usage and to determine whether active Internet use is a marker for low or high levels of leisure time activities. METHODS/PRINCIP...