An Examination of the Life Satisfaction and Importance of Leisure in the Lives of Older Female Retirees: A Comparison of Blacks to Whites

Riddick, Carol Cutler; Stewart, Debra Gonder

doi:10.1080/00222216.1994.11969945

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“…Logistic regression analyses furnished robust support for the MHS perspective. Riddick and Stewart (1994) framed their analysis of the effect of leisure on life satisfaction of older black and white female retirees with the MSH perspective. They found that female retirees, especially blacks, held a negative attitude towards leisure repertoire development, which can adversely affect their leisure behavior and ultimate life satisfaction.…”

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Social Stratification in Recreational Fishing Participation: Research and Policy Implications

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“…To some extent, women's perceptions of and participation in leisure, encompassing physical activity and sports, have been serious topics of investigation (Allen and Chin-Sang, 1990;Henderson, 1990aHenderson, , 1990bRiddick and Stewart, 1994;Meltzer, 1996;Siegenthaler and Vaughan, 1998). Also, questions about the use of exercise as a buffer against becoming old (Fournier and Fine, 1990), the problematics of implementing a weight training program among older women (Khoury-Murphy and Murphy, 1992), the gendered definitions of tennis (Thompson, 1992), the categories of fitness women construe as comprising health (Burnside, 1993) and the social support derived from physical activity (Eyler et al, 1999) have attracted increased consideration.…”

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We’re not too old to play sports: the career of women lawn bowlers

Heuser

2005

Leisure Studies

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Contributing to the growing body of literature about older women's participation in sports, this ethnographic study of lawn bowlers in Perth, Western Australia, revealed a five-stage career path characterizing club members' involvement in this leisure activity. After first being introduced to bowls through other people and/or changing life circumstances, getting hooked on bowls represented the second stage in which women found themselves irresistibly drawn to this sport for multiple reasons. Playing bowls followed next as members fluidly moved between being social players, serious players and temporarily retired players variously engaged in different levels of competition. Some, but not all, then chose to assume organizational positions as committee members, officers, delegates, umpires and coaches. Inevitably, women, in the last stage, faced physical but not necessarily social retirement from bowls. In the end, bowls became the vehicle through which this particular group of women built community.

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“…A number of previous studies have investigated issues of older adults with regard to their well-being, and the significant role that leisure plays (Sasidharan, Payne, Mowen, & Montoro-Rodriguez, 2006;Sener, Terzioglu, & Karabulut, 2007;Thang, 2005;Yau & Packer, 2002). Riddick and Stewart (1994), for example, in reporting determinants of life satisfaction for older adults, indicate that participation in leisure activities was the most significant predictor of life satisfaction. Stathi, Fox, and McKenna (2002) also demonstrated that physical activity contributes to subjective well-being as well as mental health among older adults.…”

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Serious Leisure, Health Perception, Dispositional Optimism, and Life Satisfaction Among Senior Games Participants

Heo

Lee

2010

Educational Gerontology

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This study investigated factors that explain the life satisfaction of Senior Games participants. One 193 older adults from the 2005 Michigan State Senior Games and the 2005 New York State Senior Games participated in the study. The results of the study show that one of the indicators of serious leisure (affective attachment) was positively correlated to optimism (.16, p < .05), age (.28, p < .01), and the number of years participated (.28, p < .01). Regression analysis was also used to identify which variables contribute to predicting life satisfaction. It was found that dispositional optimism (b ¼ .308, p < .001) and perceived health (b ¼ .185, p < .05) were significant predictors of life satisfaction.The concept of subjective well-being (SWB) involves the assessment that people provide relating to the quality of their lives

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An Examination of the Life Satisfaction and Importance of Leisure in the Lives of Older Female Retirees: A Comparison of Blacks to Whites

Cited by 95 publications

References 34 publications

Social Stratification in Recreational Fishing Participation: Research and Policy Implications

Social Stratification in Recreational Fishing Participation: Research and Policy Implications

We’re not too old to play sports: the career of women lawn bowlers

Serious Leisure, Health Perception, Dispositional Optimism, and Life Satisfaction Among Senior Games Participants

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