The effect of leisure counseling upon selected attitudes of potential cardiac clients

The purpose of this study was to verify the efficiency of McDowell's leisure counseling model for potential use with cardiac rehabilitation and intervention programs in effecting leisure attitudes, work attitudes, work self-concept, leisure self-concept and leisure satisfaction. To test the effectiveness of McDowell's model, an experimental research design, utilizing a pretest-posttest control group design, was used. The independent variable was counseling and the dependent variables, stated as alternative research hypotheses, were a positive effect on leisure self-concept, work self-concept, leisure attitudes, work attitudes and leisure satisfaction. Over a three month period, 24 adult subjects from an Adult Fitness Intervention Program volunteered for leisure counseling and were randomly assigned to one of two groups after which treatment was also randomly assigned. A test for homogeneity of regression revealed the subjects to be representative of the population on all variables except Work Self-Concept. In the study, a client typically was married, middle-aged, white-collar male worker. To measure the dependent variables, five instruments designed to be used with McDowell's model were used. The data obtained from the leisure counseling sample was first subject to a test for homogeneity of regression after which hypotheses one, two, three and five, were subjected to an analysis of covariance. The findings of the analysis of data allowed for the rejection of the null hypotheses and the acceptance of the research hypotheses for hypotheses two and five. For hypotheses one and three, the researcher failed to reject the null hypothesis, and rejected the research hypothesis. An interpretation of these findings suggested that leisure counseling using McDowell's model can affect one's leisure self-concept and leisure satisfaction. From the study it was concluded that for the sample studied McDowell's leisure counseling model can be said to have positively increased the clients' leisure self-concept and leisure satisfaction on a short term basis. It was also concluded that leisure counseling as a component of cardiac rehabilitation/intervention programs using McDowell's model was said to be neither effective or ineffective for the sample studies. These results must account for the fact that the research methodology was not able to identify the possible reactive effect of the pretest.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ed. D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Supervision

Department dc:contributor.department

Educational Supervision

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Year dc:date.issued

1979

Author dc:creator

• Hoeft, Thea M.

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/80276

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/80276