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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Leisure Studies"”.
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The Development and Validation of Behavioral Expectation Scales to Evaluate Cooperative Education Students in Leisure Studies
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Family functioning and adolescent leisure patterns
The relationship between leisure and the family is one that has been studied by both family scholars and leisure scholars. However, due to definitional and methodological limitations of the research, the understanding of this relationship still remains unclear. Moreover, this relationship is …
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Examining the Relationship Between Leisure Theory and Recreation Practice
… recreation administration, its relationship to leisure theory, and curricular implications. An unconstrained pile-sort technique was used to measure the cognitive structures of Leisure Studies Academicians (n = 19), Leisure Service Practitioners (n = 20), and Leisure Studies Students (n = 19). …
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Internships in Recreation, Sport and Tourism: Exploring Student Perceptions
… traits of students who enter the parks and leisure industries casts doubt upon the transferability of such studies to this population. To address this gap in the literature, this study had the following three goals: (a) To identify emerging themes or consistencies in the self-report data, …
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Exploring Yoga and the Flow Experience: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Contemporary Yoga Communities
… research suggesting that social science and leisure studies could benefit from a better understanding of yoga as a leisure activity. In this study, the literature detailing the philosophical foundations of Csikszentmihalyi’s flow experience have been compared to the foundations of traditional …
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Perceptions of Value of Faculty Toward Doctoral Programs In Outdoor Adventure Education
… education (OAE) related fields (which included, leisure studies, park, recreation, tourism, and therapeutic recreation) operated, how the programs were financed, what the value of the programs were, and what makes the programs unique. The researcher conducted a detailed review of the literature. …
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Women's leisure : A qualitative study.
Mainstream leisure studies has largely failed to consider the importance of gender as a structuring variable upon leisure and consequently has neglected women's leisure as an area for study. This thesis aims to describe and analyse the experience and meaning of leisure for women, the constraints …
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To Play or Not to Play: Non/Participation in Eve Online
… imagined player. Drawing on literature from leisure studies to articulate a framework for exploring barriers/constraints to gameplay and theoretically informed by feminist theories of technology, I conducted an Internet-based survey to capture the thoughts and experiences of current, former, …
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Exploring the dimensions of disability and leisure: an examination of disabled individuals’ social worlds and leisure experiences.
Disability and the importance of making leisure accessible and inclusive for people with disabilities has been an issue within leisure studies over the years. However, evidence suggests that researchers and society still needs to develop an understanding of the different aspects of disabled …
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The Lived experience of the popular music festival-goer.
… This resonates with the critical theories of leisure, especially that of freedom and constraint and the need to accept negative as well as positive emotions in a holistic view of the experience. Stebbins (2006, 2011) may refer to leisure studies as the 'happy science', but the research not …
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Towards a geography of leisure: control, resistance and transformation within the South African city
… social dynamics of space, an investigation of leisure patterns and processes is vital. Studies of leisure will provide geography with a powerful focus for deconstructing the social forces operative within the urban landscape, and thus the construction of a detailed understanding of socio- …
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Leisure, patriarchy and policy: an examination of processes and ideologies in the local state
… constructed and contested within and through the leisure policy process. Drawing on structuration theory, socialist feminism and malestream critical sociological analyses, a methodology was developed for examining the situated practices of leisure professionals and local politicians in the local …
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An investigation of the biomechanical efficacy and clinical effectiveness of patello-‐femoral taping in elite and experienced cyclists
Abstract Please write a brief description of your work, or copy an abstract you have included in the Thesis Considering that Patello-Femoral Pain (PFP) is responsible for over 25% of all road cycling related injury and over 65% of injuries in the lower limb, alongside trauma related pain it remains …
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Tourist Photography and the Tourist Gaze: An empirical study of Chinese tourists in the UK
… autoethnography is employed during two field studies with Chinese tourists in the UK. More precisely, a first field study was based on a seven-day package tour undertaken with eighteen Chinese tourists, visiting a total of thirteen destinations around British destinations. The second field …
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A comparison of the standard barbell bench press and novel BandBell bench press
The purpose of this study was to compare the kinematics and whole body sEMG of the barbell with the Bandbell bench press. Twelve subjects with at least five years of resistance training experience volunteered to take part in the study (height, 190 ± 7 cm; bodyweight, 107 ± 16kg). All subjects were …
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Lifestyle and Service Quality: An Analysis of Family Run Hotels in Chiangmai Province, Thailand
Globally, the provision of accommodation is dominated by family run businesses (Getz and Carlsen, 2005). Family businesses in the tourism and hospitality industry are significant in terms of numbers, economic value, and longevity. The visions and goals of the owners are different from those of …
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The Applicability of the Human Sigma Model to Service Quality Management in the UK Tourism Industry: an operational analysis
… in service quality has been acknowledged, few studies have actually identified the factors linked to the service encounter from the perspective of both the provider and customer. In practice, the role of front-line employees in service firms tends to be underappreciated, with the lowest paid, …
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Exploring Stakeholder Coherence in an Effective Talent Identification and Development Environment.
… in coach-parent relationships. The different studies were based primarily in the UK and in one sport, but cultural differences suggest that the findings of this thesis may not pertain to other sports and nations. To this end, the final study compared TID systems and coach- parent coherence in …
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Critical considerations of Level 4 coach education in the UK: A theoretical and empirical study
Within the last half a century the developments within the sporting landscape have been coupled with changes in the political sphere and - most recently - the successful bid to host the London 2012 Olympics Games. An incidental effect of such changes emphasised the fundamental role of coach …
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The Workload Demands of Mixed Martial Arts
A two part study, which firstly demonstrates the reliability of the Catapult Minimax x3 in measuring the external workload of isolated mixed martial arts movements and then uses this technology alongside video based time motion analysis and capillary blood sampling to determine the workload demands …
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