Leisure motivation in relation to psychosocial adjustment and personality in young offender and high school samples
✍ Scribed by John R. Reddon; Gregory A. Pope; Jon P. Friel; Birendra K. Sinha
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 455 KB
- Volume
- 52
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
The Jackson Personality Inventory (JPI), Holden Psychological Screening Inventory (HPSI), and the Leisure Motivation Scale (LMS) were administered to samples of 66 young offenders and 67 high school students. Significant between sample differences occurred for the HPSI Depression and Social Symptomatology scales, the JPI Responsibility and Risk Taking scales, but none of the 4 LMS scales. Statistically significant correlations were obtained for the LMS with 13 of the 15 JPI scales, with the HPSI Psychiatric, Social, and Depression Symptomatology scales, and with gender and sample. The canonical correlation redundancy index indicated that 40% of the variance in leisure motivation was accounted for by the HPSI and JPI measures. Sample and gender added 2% to the explained variance. 0 1996 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Leisure, generally defined, is free or discretionary time in which individuals are unencumbered by work duties or responsibilities. Interest and participation in leisure activities, as with any complex human behavior, is multiply determined. Consequently, biological, psychological, social, and environmental factors all contribute to leisure time utilization.
Unlike work behavior, research in the area of personality and leisure has been relatively scarce. Allen ( 1982) examined the relationship between the Personality Research Form (PRF-E; Jackson, 1974) scales and a leisure interests taxonomy in a sample of 212 college students. Twelve of the 20 personality scales were significantly related to 7 of the 9 leisure interest dimensions indicating a substantial association between personality variables and leisure interests. Other work in this area has focused on the social and psychological benefits of leisure for the general population (Wankel & Berger, 1990) and among the mentally ill (Kennedy, 1987;Wallace & Mlott, 1983). Similarly, for patient groups Iso-Ahola and Mobily (1982) and Wassman and Iso-Ahola (1985) have reported that depression is negatively associated with leisure participation.
Several taxonomies have been developed to categorize leisure activities and facilitate research on the determinants of leisure participation (e.g., Allen & Buchanan, 1981;Tinsley & Johnson, 1984). Rather than measuring preferences for or participation in particular leisure activities, Beard and Ragheb (1983) developed an inventory for measuring four independent motivations for participating in leisure activities. Assessing leisure motivation in relation to personality and adjustment may help to explain individual differences in leisure participation.
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate leisure motivation in relation to personality traits and psychosocial adjustment. Results are reported for adolescent samples of