Positive Leisure Science pp 213-223 | Cite as
Afterthoughts on Leisure and Future Research Directions
Abstract
The first main purpose of this book was to provide an overview of recent empirical and conceptual work on leisure and positive psychology. Overall, the chapters in this book provide an insightful and broad perspective of leisure across the lifespan and highlight new and emerging perspectives. At the end, our final aim is to articulate those perspectives around the importance of basic and applied research regarding positive leisure science (PLS). In this chapter, we will consider and discuss some of the conclusions that have emerged from this book. We choose those that, in particular, open new issues and directions to leisure future research.
In 2000, the Journal of Leisure Research published a special issue that invited numerous scholars, novice and veteran, to discuss issues related to the then past, present, and future of leisure studies. It is the hope that this volume of edited chapters continues that discussion and contributes new ideas and directions for the future that can encourage the emergence of new theoretical frameworks, methodologies, and practices about leisure.
Keywords
Positive Psychology Nonresident Father Experience Sampling Method Latent Transition Analysis Delle FaveReferences
- Bronfenbrenner, U., & Morris, P. A. (1998). The ecology of developmental processes. In W. Damon (Series Ed.) & R. M. Lerner (Vol. Ed.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol. 1. Theoretical models of human development (pp. 993–1028). New York: Wiley.Google Scholar
- Csikszentmihalyi, M., & Larson, R. (1987). Validity and reliability of the Experience-Sampling Method. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 175, 526–536.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
- Curtis, J. E. (1979). Recreation: Theory and practice. St. Louis, MI: C.V. Mosby.Google Scholar
- Curtis, J. E. (1988, June). Purple recreation. Society of Park and Recreation Education National Recreation and Park Association Annual on Education, 3, 73–77.Google Scholar
- Drozda, C. (2006). Juveniles performing auto theft: An exploratory study into a deviant leisure lifestyle. Leisure/Loisir, 30, 111–132.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
- Freire, T., & Stebbins, R. (2011). Activités de loisir optimales et développement positif des adolescents: un rapprochement entre les perspectives psychologiques et sociologiques. In C. Martin-Krumm & C. Tarquinio (Eds.), Traité de Psychologie Positive: Fondements théoriques et implications pratiques (pp. 557–576). Bruxelles, Belgium: De Boeck.Google Scholar
- Godbey, G. (2000). The future of leisure studies. Journal of Leisure Research, 32(1), 37–41.Google Scholar
- Gunn, L., & Caissie, L. T. (2006). Serial murder as an act of deviant leisure. Leisure/Loisir, 30, 27–54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
- Henderson, K. A. (2010). The future of leisure studies: The sky is falling? Leisure Sciences, 32(4), 391–400.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
- Kahneman, D. K., Krueguer, A. B., Schkade, D. A., Schwarz, N., & Stone, A. A. (2004). A survey method for characterizing daily life experience: The day reconstruction method. Science, 3, 1776–1780.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
- Lerner, R. M., von Eye, A., Lerner, J. V., Lewin-Bizan, S., & Bowers, E. P. (Eds.). (2010). The meaning and measurement of thriving in adolescence: Findings from the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39(7), 707–719.PubMedCrossRefGoogle Scholar
- Rojek, C. (1999b). Abnormal leisure: Invasive, mephitic and wild forms. Loisir et Societe/Society and Leisure, 22(1), 21–37.Google Scholar
- Shaw, S. M. (1985). The meaning of leisure in everyday life. Leisure Sciences, 7(1), 1–24.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
- Shaw, S. M. (1991). Women’s leisure time: Using time budget data to examine current trends and future predictions. Leisure Studies, 10(2), 171–181.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
- Shaw, S. M. (1992). Dereifying family leisure: An examination of women’s and men’s everyday experiences and perceptions of family time. Leisure Sciences, 14(4), 271–286.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
- Shaw, S. M. (2000). If our research is relevant, why is nobody listening? Journal of Leisure Research, 32, 147–151.Google Scholar
- Stebbins, R. A. (2009). Personal decisions in the public square: Beyond problem solving into a positive sociology. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishing.Google Scholar
- Stone, A. A., & Shiffman, S. (2002). Capturing momentary, self-report data: A proposal for reporting guidelines. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 24, 236–243.PubMedCrossRefGoogle Scholar
- Williams, D. J., & Walker, G. J. (2006). Leisure, deviant leisure, and crime: ‘Caution: Objects may be closer than they appear’. Leisure/Loisir, 30, 193–218.CrossRefGoogle Scholar