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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Social Leisure"”.
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Adolescent Leisure Activities as a Moderator of the Negative Effects of Family Process on Adolescent Emotional Health
… adolescent's experience with different types of leisure (achievement, social or time-out) would moderate the negative effects of dysfunctional family process on an adolescent's emotional health. A model was tested that hypothesized that leisure experienced as achievement or social by adolescents …
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Using Smartphone Applications to Support Cognition in Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Treatment Study
… in daily activities, reduce participation in social/leisure activities, and increase caregiver burden. A 5-week treatment program was developed to train the use of smartphone applications to support cognitive functioning in personally-relevant activities. Voice commands were selected as an …
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Spaces that encourage Communication: Design for a Public Library
… libraries have become a gathering place for social, leisure, self-education and learning activities. In this thesis, I am exploring how to design spaces which can encourage communication between people. According to Jan Gehl's book, Cities for People, watching, listening and experiencing …
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Psychometric properties of the Icelandic version of the work and social adjustment scale
Relevant and objective outcome measures of the social and functional impairment that psychological disorders evoke, serve an integral part in evaluating the quality and progression of psychological treatment. The aim of the study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Icelandic version of …
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Festival Worlds: A Sociology of Culture, Collective Experience and Temporary Tribes.
… an exploration of the contemporary, and highly social, leisure worlds of music festivals. It is concerned with the continued collective production of a culture and cultural practice which is no longer constitutes a sub-cultural gathering. Instead the research proposes that participation in …
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Reconceptualizing preretirement planning: a comparison of the traditional and life span approaches
… decline, health care costs, and alterations in social and leisure activities. In contrast, the primary focus of the lifestyles approach was on describing how one could plan ahead to address potentially undesirable consequences in the areas of financial stability, health care, or social/leisure …
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LEISURE, STRESS COPING, AND HEALTH IN UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES
… of employees. Mounting research demonstrate that leisure can contribute to one’s health and well-being by enhancing a stress coping mechanism. The primary purpose of this study is to investigate stress coping and health-promoting behaviors in conjunction with leisure by comparing three types of …
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An examination of the Effectiveness of a Cognitive Group Intervention for People with Acquired Brain Injury
… in various domains such as psychological, social, leisure, vocational or everyday functioning. This study investigated, in a sample of people with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), whether participating in a twelve-week group intervention brings about significant change in areas of cognition, …
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Exploring older men's social lives and well-being in the context of a coffee group
… will be important for them to age successfully. Leisure and social support has been confirmed to assist in the process of successful, healthy aging. This specific cohort of the population is growing in size and men are living longer. Moreover, social leisure issues related to older men have not …
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Travel experience and everyday life experience in the mobilities paradigm
… economic, environment, health, family & social, leisure, and social system. By comparing interview findings and survey results, three key linkages were identified between travel experience and major life domains: environment, education, and social. Third, based upon the key linkages …
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Exploring Laotians' experiences of leisure gambling and sense of place in a casino setting: a case study
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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A longitudinal study of academic web links: identifying and explaining change
… Significant increases in ‘research oriented’, ‘social/leisure’ and ‘superficial’ links were identified as well as notable decreases in the ‘technical’ and ‘personal’ links. Some of these changes identified may be explained by general changes in the management of university web sites and some by …