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In order to evaluate this perspective, a study was designed to assess social role constraint and self-expression as experienced in everyday social contexts. Nineteen individuals were given electronic pagers for one week. At random times throughout the day they received a signal on the pager and completed a brief questionnaire to describe aspects of the immediate social context. Of the 769 responses, one third (36%) were described as leisure. LISREL analysis confirmed that freedom from social role constraint and freedom for self-expression were important concomitants of the leisure context. Without self-expression, freedom from role constraints was empty and anomic; however, with self-expression freedom from role constraints was pleasant and engaging. The importance of self-expression broadens our understanding of the freedom within leisure, and links leisure to an authenticity of experience qualitatively distinct from the "bad faith" of more common existence. 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