Research about women and leisure has grown consistently over the past 30 years. This
paper extends four previous integrative reviews about research content regarding women's …

In spite of copious literature investigating body dissatisfaction and its correlates in
adolescents and young adult women, exploration of body image disturbances in adult …

Background In order to elucidate the individual and community health burden of body
dissatisfaction (BD), we examined impairment in quality of life associated with BD in a large …

The" Serious Leisure Perspective"(SLP) is a theoretical framework that can help us
understand the complexities of modern leisure as both an activity and an experience …

Through an interdisciplinary lens, this paper proposes two concepts for Black feminist
analysis (visibility and hypervisibility) to augment feminist leisure scholarship. We examine …

In this study, we explored women's experiences with their bodies following treatment for
breast cancer. Eleven women who had been treated for the disease (Mtime since treatment …

This study examined body image in adult women along with probable correlates including
health behaviors, negative affect, quality of life, and functional impairment. Adult women (N …

The purpose of this study is to describe leisure constraints as perceived by residents of the
Chinese cities Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Chengdu, and Shenzhen. Rather …

Leisure is considered as a way of freedom and expression besides getting rid of limiting
gender roles. Leisure is also a means of increasing competency in life for women. Therefore …

Quality of life (QOL) is enhanced by the satisfaction derived from leisure time. Much of the
evidence for this relationship comes from research in Western nations. In contrast, this study …