When planning leisure activities for disadvantaged groups it is essential to consider both the sociological and psychological factors that may influence participation. A short stay excursion to a Melbourne Cup race can be used to highlight the complexities involved in providing equitable leisure opportunities that combat both low social class and disability. As this excursion will highlight, despite the psychological benefits of leisure, young people with a disability face multiple sociological barriers to leisure choices and participation. When looking at leisure from a sociological perspective it is apparent that poverty restricts involvement in leisure choice and participation, which goes beyond the impacts of disability alone. The high cost of travel experiences can limit leisure choices, and the inability to participate in leisure consumption can result in social stigma and shame. At the same time, the rise in internet usage as a form of leisure has been exponential and a greater number of young people use online networking for everyday leisure involvement than ever before. For this reason, numerous laptops were provided for use to the young people on the Melbourne Cup stay. The inference is made that, despite the evident risks of online sharing, internet technology offers a multitude of psychological benefits to users, and poses appealing possibilities for leisure choices and participation that may counteract sociological and psychological barriers to leisure, and strengthen family bonds. Leisure activities are defined as an essential part of a healthy and fulfilled life. Offering a means through which thoughts, feelings, and behaviours can be expressed, leisure serves as an opportunity to achieve health, happiness, self-act... ... middle of paper ... ...mith-r5.pdf Smith, R. W., Austin, D. R., Kennedy, D. W., Lee, Y., & Hutchinson, P. (2005). Planning mandates, policies, goals and objectives. In Inclusive and special recreation: opportunities for persons with disabilities (5th ed.) (pp. 133-153). Boston, Mass.: McGraw-Hill Higher Education. https://www.csu.edu.au/division/library/ereserve/pdf/smith-r5.pdf Smith, V., & Hughes, H. (1999). Disadvantaged families and the Meaning of the Holiday. International Journal of Tourism Research, 1, 123-133. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1522-1970 Trussell, D. E., & Mair, H. (2010). Seeking Judgement Free Spaces: Poverty, Leisure and Social Inclusion. Journal of Leisure Research, 42 (4), 513-533. http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.csu.edu.au/ Veal, A. J., Darcy, S., & Lynch. (2013). Australian Leisure (4th ed.). Frenchs Forest NSW: Pearson.
As a child, many individuals have free time where they can participate in leisurely activities often. Known as the preparation phase, leisure at this point is usually where a child forms relationships and set goals they wish to achieve in the future. This differs drastically from the establishment phase, where an individual is usually too busy to participate in leisure as much. At this phase, leisure is viewed as purposive, such as taking their child to a museum. The focus is generally not focused on just the individual themselves but rather on acting upon their previous goals to successfully reach them. The final phase is known as the reintegration phase where an individual reflects on the course their life has taken due to the preparation and establishing they have done. At each stage, there are constraints and facilitators that affect what an individual may do as leisure. However, there are other cultural and social factors that affect this as well. Ever since ancient times, an individual’s economic status is a factor that has affected their participation in certain leisure activities that they can afford or not. Today, this still occurs as some people can afford to do activities for leisure while others can not. There are other constraints that an individual can face as well based on where they live, their religion and what race they are. It is unfortunate that not all
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them the opportunity not only for recreation, but for sport and big events (political meetings and
Many individuals would define leisure as time free from paid work, domestic responsibilities, and just about anything that one would not do as part of their daily routine. Time for leisure and time for work are both two separate spheres. The activities which people choose to do on their spare time benefit their own personal interests as well as their satisfactions. While some people may enjoy one activity, others pay not. Leisure is all about personal interests and what people constitute having a good time is all about. Some may say that the process of working class leisure can be seen to contribute their own subordination as well as the reproduction of capitalist class relations. Self-produced patterns of working class leisure can lead to resistance to such reproduction. This leads to social class relations and inequalities, and the fact that it they can never be completely reproduced in the leisure sphere. This film Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community, gives some examples of the role of leisure within a capitalist society dealing with issues such as class inequalities, and how they are different among various societies.
The purpose of therapeutic recreation is to enable all individuals to achieve quality of life and optimal health through meaningful experiences in recreation and leisure. In this paper the definition of therapeutic recreation will be discussed as well as what should be included in the definition and what should be rejected. This definition will mainly focus on health and use the Health Promotion Model to further explain my choice to focus on health and well-being. I will also be discussing the importance of inclusion in therapeutic recreation for different learning styles in many environments, and the significance of diversity in the community and what we hope to achieve by being fully inclusive.
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Smith, V., & Hughes, H. (1999). Disadvantaged families and the meaning of the holiday. International Journal of Tourism Research, 1(2), 123- 133.
Techniques for living a healthy life have been taught to most of us since a very young age, particularly to always be active and play, ensuring good physical health. But most may overlook the enormous benefits involved in participation of various leisure activities when it comes to cognitive and mental wellbeing (Greer & Trivedi, 2009). Active participation in leisure activities has been shown to greatly minimize the risks of developing a whole multitude of mental disorders including depression from adolescents to the elderly (McPhie & Rawana, 2015). In one longitudinal study undertaken by researchers at the University of South Denmark over a period of 26 years and involving over 18,000 participants they set out to examine how leisure time physical activity plays a role on the risk of developing depression (Mikkelsen et al., 2010). Data collection for leisure time physical activity was done via a questionnaire while determination of depression was done by examining the Danish Psychiatric registry for any participants being admitted with a depression diagnoses in three separate time intervals over the 26 year period. Following analysis of this data, researchers were able to establish precise relationships for both men and women in regards to their level of leisure time physical activity and risk of developing depression. Women who had low levels of leisure time physical activity were on average 1.80 times more at risk for developing depression than those who engaged in high levels of leisure time physical activity (Mikkelsen et al., 2010). Similarly in males, those who had low participation were at a 1.39 times greater risk for depression than those with high LTPA levels.
To understand how leisure plays an important role in our daily lives today, we should have a complete understanding of how leisure has impacted our lives historically. Just as important would be the role that geo-political events and technology have played throughout history and its effects on leisure.
Leisure is a way to get out of the reality world. People are seeking to have fun and exciting experiences since everyone is always busy with work. Leisure is not just free time that everyone has, but there is a deeper meaning into it. How one spends their spare time is significant to their own discovering of who they are. Leisure will change a person’s life in a positive way since one will learn on how to deal with problems without any assistance from others. One will spend their free time differently from time to time and this will affect their future. Everyone has his or her own definition of leisure but no matter what leisure is always beneficial toward one’s life.
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A women’s leisure style changes abruptly upon the arrival of children because she is no longer only responsible for her personal needs, but the needs of other human beings. Her time is no longer her own; she coordinates eating, sleeping, school, and homework schedules. In addition to juggling these activities, she has a marriage to sustain, as well as her own personal matters. This can be a lot for one person to handle and leaves little time for personal leisure pursuits for any mother. Mothers tend to be hard-workers, as they spread themselves thin amongst all of the children who are dependent upon them for life. This sense of duty a mother feels towards her children is so strong, many mothers may have a hard time feeling justified in taking time out of family life for leisure.
time to engage in leisure activities such as entertainment and food as well as socializing. Consumers
Leisure time is a time where people are free from work and are they can do any activities that they want during that specific time. This period of time can be spent by staying indoors or engaging themselves with outdoor activities. However, today’s generation of young adults prefer staying indoors than outdoor during their free time. According to a new nationwide poll from The Nature Conservancy, only 10 percent of young adults say they are spending time outdoor every day and they only spend time outdoor to play less than 30 minutes in a week (The Nature Conservacy, n.d.). This is because of their lack of interest to play outside during their leisure time and majority of them prefer to stay indoors and play video games, chatting with friends
Recreation participation under taken outside the home involves some travels that is walking, cycling, bus, taxi, car, train or plane. The method of travel can affect the level of satisfaction, it can determine time, distance and destination. Based on study area the factors of access and location is the important to factor visiting because the location easy to found and this area near to the beach Bukit Keluang.