This study explores the common leisure occasion—those informal, unstructured leisure
situations which emerge throughout the day—in attempt to understand the situational factors …

This article suggests that although United Kingdom leisure studies and North American
leisure sciences are characterized by different epistemological, methodological, and …

More than three decades ago, Clawson and Knetsch (1966; Clawson, 1963) characterized
five sequential phases of outdoor recreation. They succinctly discussed their seminal idea of …

In this article, the social world perspective (SWP) is discussed to address the concern that
current serious leisure (SL) studies focus predominantly on individual experiences while …

The need for definitional consistency is becoming increasingly evident for leisure research.
Based on an integrative review of the literature, three primary terms are explored in this …

Leisure is a complex topic that, at times, appears to defy logical explanation. Research that
examines and compares leisure cross-culturally can provide important information to aid our …

A theory‐based model distinguishing three kinds of leisure from required nonwork activity
has been examined through research on adult leisure in three communities. In the research …

Most previous research concerning serious leisure has focused on testing the nature of
activities using six distinctive qualities proposed by Robert Stebbins. Viewed from a different …

The question of the nature of leisure is a primary, if elusive, question. Quite recently, there
has been some considerable interest in approaching the question by understanding leisure …

Our interest in this research reflection is to introduce what we call extended leisure
experiences—activities that leisure participants engage in following the completion of a …