Positive Leisure Science From Subjective Experience to Social Contexts /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Freire, Teresa (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Psychology.; Medical research.; Quality of life.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Positive psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Positive Psychology.; Quality of Life Research.

This book extends positive psychology by embedding leisure into the positive science field, following a new paradigm and aggregating various domains and fields. Positive science can be applied to the field of leisure and, in turn, leisure can serve as an arena to study some of the most important opt...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface; Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Introduction; Teresa Freire
• PART I. LEISURE AND POSITIVE LIVING.- Chapter 1. Research and Theory on Positiveness in the Social Sciences - The central role of leisure; Robert A. Stebbins
• Chapter 2. Redeeming leisure in later life; Douglas A. Kleiber
• PART II. LEISURE, GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
• Chapter 3. Adolescent Leisure from a Prevention Perspective; Linda L. Caldwell
• Chapter 4. Leisure experience and positive identity development; Teresa Freire
• Chapter 5. Positive leisure science: leisure in family contexts; Ramon Zabriskie and Tess Kay
• Chapter 6. Leisure, optimal experience and psychological selection: Cultural and developmental perspectives; Marta Bassi and Antonella Delle Fave
• PART III. LEISURE, WELL-BEING AND QUALITY OF LIFE
• Chapter 7. Facilitating change through leisure: the leisure and well-being model of the therapeutic recreation practice; Colleen D. Hood and Cynthia P. Carruthers
• Chapter 8. Flow and leisure; Kim Perkins and Jean Nakamura
• Chapter 9. Physical activity, leisure time and health; Jorge Mota, Mauro Barros, José Carlos Ribeiro and Maria Paula Santos
• Chapter 10. Bringing Leisure in: the benefits and importance of leisure to non-resident fatherhood and parent-child contact; John M. Jenkins
• Chapter 11. Happiness through leisure; Jeroen Nawijin & Ruut Venhoven. PART IV. LEISURE AND THE PURSUIT OF A POSITIVE LEISURE SCIENCE (PLS)
• Chapter 12. Afterthoughts and future research directions on leisure; Teresa Freire and Linda Caldwell.-.