Parenting practice, leisure experience, and substance use among South African adolescents

Abstract

There is limited understanding of parents' role in positive youth/adolescent development through leisure in developing countries. Using a sample of 6,626 eighth-grade students in South Africa, this study examined the interrelationships among parenting practice, adolescents' leisure experience, and substance use. Results of structural equation modeling showed that parental leisure involvement was associated with less substance use, while parental leisure overcontrol was associated with greater substance use. The relationship of parental leisure involvement to substance use was mediated by healthy leisure engagement. The relationship of parental leisure overcontrol to substance use, on the other hand, was mediated by leisure boredom and healthy leisure engagement. The model path coefficients had little variation between genders and socioeconomic groups except that parental leisure overcontrol had a stronger positive relationship with leisure boredom for males than for females. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Level up the life!! Leisure Involvement, Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction among University Students

“…It can be concluded that participants in individual exercises like fitness and swimming are more involved than participants in group exercises such as squash, spinning, pilates, kangoo-jump, and tae-bo. Additionally, individuals participating in individual sports reflects the place and importance of the activity in their lives (Xie, 2020) and is even a form of self-expression (Li et al, 2020). Individuals who participate in activities individually can be said to be more social; in fact, they experience more identification with the activity.…”

“…There is a consensus about the conceptualization of leisure involvement as a multidimensional construct (Kyle, G., & Chick, 2002). Moving from this point, this consensus involves topics like appeal, importance, self-expression, social relationships, and identification (Kyle, G., & Chick, 2002;Yoon et al, 2020;Xie, et al, 2020).…”

“…For this reason, this is a topic assessed from the perspective of a business approach. In terms of businesses, the personal value of activity for a person and how important participation is to them affects appeal and is assessed as another aspect ensuring continuity of participation (Xie, et al, 2020). Additionally, the "centrality" dimension, representing the perceived place and importance of activity in the life of the individual, is associated with daily life and social structure (Chien,2020).…”

“…At this point, activity carries representative power for an individual and expresses symbolic value. Individuals may experience identification (internal motivation) through the activity, along with situations representing their identity to those around them (external motivation) (Li et al, 2020;Xie et al, 2020). The "social bonding" subdimension represents forming relationships with society through participation in activities; in short, meaning socialization.…”

Perceived Constraints on Active Recreational Sport Participation among Residents in Urban China

“…Crawford and Godbey’s [ 16 ] framework of leisure constraints has discussed the link between perceived constraints and non or less leisure participation, and the framework has been widely applied to different types of recreation settings. Moreover, leisure activity participation might be different among social groups, as racial/ethnic minority groups, women, adolescents [ 17 , 18 ], and people with disabilities were traditionally disadvantaged groups in leisure participation. However, most leisure constraint studies have focused on specific group/populations in North America [ 19 , 20 ], Europe, and Australia, and the content are constraint determinants for the level of participation in leisure time physical activity (LTPA) in general [ 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 ].…”