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Work and leisure relationships: An exploration of life possibilities during adolescence

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This study explored the relationship between leisure preferences and work/occupational aspiration for adolescents in Singapore and Australia. Three hypothesized relationships between the domains of “spillover”, “compensation”, and “segmentation” were investigated. Except for females in the Australian sample, it appeared that adolescents saw leisure preferences and occupational aspirations as two independent spheres of their personal futures, supporting the segmentation hypothesis.

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  1. School of Education, Macquarie University, 2113, North Ryde, N.S.W., Australia

    Millicent E. Poole

  2. School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquaire University, 2113, North Ryde, N. S. W., Australia

    George H. Cooney

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Received Ph.D. from La Trobe. Research interests include adolescence and youth.

Received Ph.D. from University of Sydney. Research interests include longitudinal data analysis.

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Poole, M.E., Cooney, G.H. Work and leisure relationships: An exploration of life possibilities during adolescence. J Youth Adolescence 15, 475–486 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02146089

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