Attitude Toward Leisure Among the Community-Dwelling Elderly: An Interface for Health Promotion

Abstract

A cross-sectional study with quantitative approach carried out with 387 community-dwelling elderly to identify their attitudes toward leisure activities in the cognitive, affective and behavioral dimensions. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Fisher's association test and Spearman's correlation. Most participants were female, aged up to 80 years, married and had up to four years of schooling. The elderly had a predominantly positive attitude toward leisure in the three subscales, with a lower mean for the behavioral subscales, which indicated that some elders had a negative attitude. This was significantly associated with age, educational attainment, smoking status and functional capacity. In conclusion, a positive attitude and greater involvement in leisure activities allows health professionals to raise a critical reflection in the elderly, especially in their behavioral attitude to rethink the planning, opportunities and resources for leisure.

Atividade física na rotina de indivíduos em tratamento para câncer de próstata em Vitória da Conquista e região

“…Ressalta-se que não foram encontrados estudos relacionando autopercepção da saúde com prática de atividade física em indivíduos com CaP. Todavia, a própria prática de atividade física, por si só, tem sido relacionada a autopercepção positiva da saúde [31].…”

Cross-cultural adaptation and content validity of leisure attitude measurement for older adults

“…As for the older population, LAM was applied in the south of Brazil, in the version adapted to European Portuguese, with residents of long-term institutions 13 and older adults in the community 6 . In both studies, a predominantly positive attitude towards leisure was obtained, with the behavioral domain showing the lowest average 13,6 , results similar to the validation studies of LAM in Portugal 19,20 . The LAM also was applied in a survey conducted with retired Americans, showing that the attitude related to leisure is a resource that influences the way the person deals with retirement 4 .…”

“…It is critical for the successful aging to keep an active mind and body 5 , whether by investing in engaging in occupational and social activities or autonomy and well-being 2 . In this sense, the literature deals with the benefits that leisure represents as a strategy to cope with the challenges, losses and disabilities in old age 6,7 . Here, leisure is understood as a set of experiences that can develop in many cultural contents and which expresses itself in the time available beyond professional obligations, in a free and authentic way, and the individual can actually enjoy idleness 8 .…”

“…People's practices during leisure says more about their attitude than in any other context 4,10,12 . Therefore, it is relevant to know the attitude of the older people in relation to leisure in order to allow a better understanding of this type of social practice and stimulate more positive attitudes and engagement in leisure activities 6,13 .…”

The Mediating Role of Leisure Satisfaction between Work and Family Domain and Work-Life Balance

“…However, according to Knecht, Wiese and Freund (2016) mentioned that high level of leisure involvement able to increase leisure satisfaction and this indirectly encourage work family enrichment among the employees. This is because most of the past study in the leisure area focused on the impact of the individual leisure behavior towards job performance (De Bloom, Rantanen, Tement & Kinnunen, 2017), academic performance (Aaltonen at el, 2016), teacher perspective (Aslan & Cansever, 2016) and improve the mental or physical health of the individual (Ferrari, Baldissera, Lange, Carreira, Silva, 2016).…”