Time, Leisure and Well-Being

✍ Jiri Zuzanek 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

The significance of work and leisure as elements of our social fabric have puzzled philosophers and social scientists for generations. This ambitious new study considers historical views of work and leisure alongside contemporary survey evidence about time-use and well-being.<

Time, Leisure and Well-Being (Routledge

📁 Time, Leisure and Well-Being (Routledge Critical Leisure Studies)

✍ Jiri Zuzanek 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

The significance of work and leisure as elements of our social fabric have puzzled philosophers and social scientists for generations. This ambitious new study considers historical views of work and leisure alongside contemporary survey evidence about time-use and well-being.<

Work, Leisure and Well-being

📁 Work, Leisure and Well-being

✍ John T Haworth 📂 Library 📅 1997 🌐 English

Although it is now well established that unemployment is detrimental to health and well being, most of us assume that a well structured, rewarding leisure activity would be preferable to paid work. John Haworth challenges these assumptions and shows that the very constriction of work, like having to

Leisure, Health and Well-Being: A Holist

📁 Leisure, Health and Well-Being: A Holistic Approach

✍ Zsuzsanna Benkő, Ishwar Modi, Klára Tarkó (eds.) 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan 🌐 English

This book explores health and leisure as a holistic phenomenon with individual and social dimensions. Contributors to this edited volume explore the physical, mental, emotional, sexual and social aspects of health and leisure as well as the influence of moral and religious principles. The conn

Time Well Spent: Subjective Well-Being a

📁 Time Well Spent: Subjective Well-Being and the Organization of Time

✍ Daniel Wheatley 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Rowman & Littlefield International 🌐 English

Measuring quality of life has been identified as fundamental in assessing the relative progress of societies and as having relevance for both monitoring and policy-making purposes. Self-reported measures of well-being, referred to as subjective well-being, have become increasingly topica

Project-Based Leisure: Toward Personal W

📁 Project-Based Leisure: Toward Personal Well-Being and Community Involvement (SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research)

✍ Robert A. Stebbins 📂 Library 📅 2023 🏛 Springer 🌐 English

This short book discusses the relatively new concept of project-based leisure in leisure research, and relates it to individual and community well-being and quality of life. The book defines PBL as a short-term, reasonably complicated, one-off or occasional, though infrequent, creative unde