Leisure Experience And Human Development A

This text explores the relevance of leisure experience (play, sport, happiness, quality of life, and well-being) to optimum human development, using a unique lifespan development approach.

Douglas Kleiber is professor and chair in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Georgia at Athens.

List of Tables and Figures

xi

Preface

xiii

The Many Faces of Leisure

1

(15)

Leisure as Context

3

(2)

Manifestations of Preferred Experience

5

(5)

The Place of Leisure in the Study of Development

10

(1)

Plan of This Book

11

(2)

Notes

13

(3)

Development, Motivation, and Leisure

16

(17)

Sources of Development

17

(4)

Intrinsic Motivation: The Push from Inside

21

(5)

Leisure and Development

26

(3)

Conclusion

29

(1)

Notes

30

(3)

Changes in Leisure Behavior over the Life Span

33

(29)

Life Span Changes

33

(6)

Childhood: The Emergence of Leisure

39

(8)

Adolescence: Finding a Self to Be Enjoyed

47

(2)

Adulthood: Role-Determined Leisure

49

(7)

Negative Life Events

56

(1)

Conclusion

56

(1)

Notes

57

(5)

Socialization Through Play and Leisure Activity

62

(31)

Socialization

62

(5)

The Power of Play

67

(1)

Structured Activities and Serious Leisure

68

(1)

Emotional Development

69

(2)

Social Competence, Morality, and Relatedness

71

(5)

The Development of Personal Competence

76

(1)

Extracurricular Activity

77

(4)

Deviance and Conformity

81

(2)

Unequal Playing Fields

83

(1)

Overaccommodation, Reproduction, and Resistance

84

(1)

Socialization into Adulthood

85

(1)

Conclusion

85

(1)

Notes

86

(7)

Leisure Experience and the Formation of Identity

93

(27)

Dimensions and Dialectics of Identity

94

(8)

The Relevance of Leisure in Identity Formation

102

(8)

The Derailment of Identity Formation in Leisure

110

(3)

Leisure Identity and Stabilization

113

(1)

Conclusion

114

(2)

Notes

116

(4)

Personal Expressiveness and the Transcendence of Negative Life Events

120

(19)

Negative Life Events

121

(3)

The Relevance of Leisure in Negative Life Events

124

(3)

Negative Life Events: Loss of Leisure, Loss of Self

127

(4)

Leisure Restored and Lives Restoried

131

(4)

Conclusion

135

(1)

Notes

135

(4)

Self-Renewal and Generativity in Middle Age

139

(20)

Individuation and Self-Renewal

141

(2)

Leisure as a Context for Individuation and Self-Renewal

143

(2)

Generativity

145

(1)

Leisure as a Context for Generativity

146

(5)

Reconsidering Generativity and Self-Renewal

151

(1)

Optimizing Leisure for Self-Renewal and Generativity

152

(1)

Conclusion

153

(1)

Notes

154

(5)

Engagement, Disengagement, and Integration in Later Life

159

(24)

Leisure and Aging Well

160

(4)

Ego Integrity

164

(3)

Engagement

167

(4)

Disengagement

171

(2)

Integration

173

(2)

Retirement

175

(1)

Conclusion

176

(2)

Notes

178

(5)

Index

183

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Leisure Experience And Human Development A Dialectical Interpretation

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