This article assesses the status of hierarchical leisure constraints theory (Crawford &
Godbey, 1987; Crawford, Jackson, & Godbey, 1991) regarding many issues. Such issues …

Leisure constraints research aims to investigate and understand the factors that are
assumed by researchers and perceived by individuals to inhibit or prohibit participation and …

The origins of research on leisure constraints can be traced back for at least a century, but it
is only in the last two to three decades that social scientists in North America have …

The purpose of this article is to address some of the issues raised by Samdahl and
Jekubovich (1997) in their critique of leisure constraints research. I suggest that the authors …

If one accepts the premise that one of the main goals of leisure research is to understand
people's behavior in the leisure domain of their lives, and agrees with the observation that …

This paper reports two separate analyses based on interviews in which people talked about
the factors that shaped leisure within their everyday lives. In the first analysis, researchers …

This paper provides a brief review of past research on leisure constraints, paying particular
attention to conceptual and analytical issues and to the practical applications of investigating …

The purpose of this article is to modify a conceptualization of leisure constraints offered by
Crawford and Godbey (1987). It is suggested that Crawford and Godbey's three discrete …

Leisure constraints research aims to investigate and understand the factors that are
assumed by researchers and perceived by individuals to inhibit or prohibit participation and …

This study examined the possible existence of three distinct, hierarchically ordered
categories of constraints on leisure originally proposed by Crawford and Godbey (1987) and …