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Youth and Leisure Time

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The Hungarian Youth quantitative research of a large representative population sample (N=8000) started in 2000 and has had four waves (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012). The research design deals with all of the relevant topics such as family planning and leisure activities (Bauer et al., Ifjúság 2000 Gyorsjelentés, 2001; Bauer and Szabó, Ifjúság 2004 Gyorsjelentés, 2005; Bauer and Szabó, Ifjúság 2008 Gyorsjelentés, 2009; Székely, 10 kérdés az ifjúságról—Magyar ifjúság 2012 kutatás első eredményei, 2012b). Although the concept of youth changed fundamentally (Nagy and Trencsényi, Szocializációs közegek a változó társadalomban—A nevelés esélyei: család, iskola, szabadidő, média, 2012)—mainly the paradigm in the field of youth, based on the research—the opportunity to compare time-series data is also relevant. This chapter deals with the time spent away from work and learning, and the leisure activities and social life of young people. The aim is to prepare a self-standing analysis and also a time-series comparison based on previous data as well as the results of Hungarian Youth 2012 (Magyar Ifjúság 2012).

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  1. 1.

    This chapter is based on the Hungarian Youth 2012 research, which is a national representative survey of Hungarian young people by age, gender, type of settlement, and region. The research sample consisted of 8000 residents of Hungary aged 15–29. Data was collected through computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI) lasting about 70 minutes per respondent. The sample design was a multistage probability sample based on the Personal Data and Address Register of the Hungarian Central Office for Administrative and Electronic Public Services using 32,000 representative addresses for the research (8000 core addresses and three times 8000 additional addresses)

  2. 2.

    While traditional European civilization defines the following standards: “Love your neighbour,” “Sacrifice yourself”, “Limit your desires,” and “Work”, consumer society emphasizes the following: “Love yourself”, “Discover yourself”, “Express your desires freely,” and “Enjoy life” (Hankiss as cited in Éber 2008).

  3. 3.

    Veblen (1994) used the distinction of labour first to define the upper class of society as a “leisured class” having endless leisure time, and through this he also showed the existence and importance of leisure time throughout history.

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    Fields of socialization are the agencies of socialization fulfilling all the following aspects: scope (has a direct impact on almost everyone), time-intensity (sufficient time with sufficient intensity is spent there), and has its own specific regulations.

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    17–26 per cent of men and 13–21 per cent of women did not mention home as a place for spending free time; for 15-to-19-year-olds this was 17–25 per cent, and for 25-to-29-year-olds it was 12–20 per cent. Spending leisure time at friends’ is of a different nature because 47–60 per cent of men, but only 39–52 per cent of women, mentioned it as a place for leisure activities during both weekdays and weekends. There is a similarly big difference in terms of age groups with 48–63 per cent of 15-to-19-year-olds and only 35–46 per cent of 25-to-29-year-olds spending their free time at friends’ during both weekdays and weekends.

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  1. Johann Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia

    Ádám Nagy

  2. Institute of Behavioural Sciences and Communication Theory Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary

    Levente Székely

  3. Petrik Lajos Bilingual Chemical, Environmental and Information Technology Vocational School, Budapest, Hungary

    Márta Barbarics

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Nagy, Á., Székely, L., Barbarics, M. (2017). Youth and Leisure Time. In: Benkő, Z., Modi, I., Tarkó, K. (eds) Leisure, Health and Well-Being. Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33257-4_14

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