Reexamining the significance of childhood recreation patterns on adult leisure behavior

Yoesting, Dean R.; Christensen, James E.

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“…However, some researchers have concluded that "evidence does not exist... to indicate that specific recreation activities in which a person participated during childhood will predict participation during adult life" (Yoesting and Christensen, 1978). This apparent contradiction may be explained by findings of this study.…”

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“…A follow-up study by Yoesting and Christensen (1978) examined the relationship between the amount of outdoor recreation involvement in childhood and in adulthood and the relationship between the types of activities done as a child and as an adult. Again, a positive relationship between the number of activities done as a child and as an adult was found.…”

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The relationship of early life experiences to later life leisure involvement

1987

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Data from the 1982Data from the -1983 Nationwide Recreation Survey were used to determine whether late life differences in leisure behavior reflect a response to early life patterns or present-day socioeconomic differences. Individuals aged 65 and over were categorized as either "expanders" or "contractors" based on their pattern of leisure involvement. Differences in lifelong learning of leisure activities between these two groups were examined. In addition, a discriminant analysis was done to determine whether present-day differences on socio-demographic variables were effective in differentiating between expanders and contractors. Results showed that expanders altered their leisure patterns by the addition of new activities throughout the life span whereas contractors learned most of their outdoor recreation activities before age 21. However, none of the socio-demographic variables used in this study were effective in differentiating between the expanders and contractors. ). An important area of leisure research involves examination of the relationship between leisure behavior in early and later life. Two key questions that underlie such studies are (a) does lifelong learning of leisure activities take place as Kelly (1982) has suggested, and (b) what factors affect the addition or deletion of skills across the life span?While research in this area has sampled individuals across many age categories, there has not been a focus on older adults (age 65 and over). Such targeting would permit examination of the relationship of early to later leisure involvement. In addition, this perspective could yield information not found when examining adults in their 20s, 30s, and 40s.Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine data on persons over the age of 65 to determine whether there is a relationship between later life leisure behavior, early life leisure patterns, and current socioeconomic status.

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The relationship of early life experiences to later life leisure involvement

1987

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“…However, it was not required that informants could remember performing the act of foraging personally so long as they were present while other members of their family foraged. Although literature reviewed by Yoesting and Burkhead (1973) and Yoesting and Christensen (1978) leads to no simple conclusions about the influence of family foraging on subsequent adult recreational behaviour, Chipeniuk (1994) found high correlations between family foraging during childhood and breadth of foraging during adulthood.…”

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Childhood foraging as regional culture: some implications for conservation policy

Chipeniuk

1998

Envir. Conserv.

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Natural resource planning theory now accepts that laypersons may acquire scientifically correct knowledge of nature by informal means and that sense of place, or ecological identity, motivates citizens to assume personal responsibility for their own bioregion. Previous research has identified childhood foraging, that is, searching for and using wild plants and animals of distinguishable kinds, as one informal means by which citizens learn about local ecosystems, but ethnographic evidence suggests foraging may also contribute substantially to the development of ecological identity. Does foraging reflect the ecological characteristics of local bioregions closely enough to structure ecological identity in industrial populations too? By way of addressing this question, studies were conducted to test predictions about the foraging repertoires of people growing up in two separate, but related, bioregions of Canada, centred on Niagara and Ottawa respectively. The most important of these predictions were, first, that regional patterns of foraging experience would correspond to regional ecological patterns, and second, that foraging repertoires would evince within-region similarities and between-region differences. Results confirm that the childhood foraging experience of ordinary Canadian citizens responds to important ecological parameters at the regional scale and in so doing constitutes an aspect of place-specific culture. These findings have a bearing on conservation policy, particularly for multicultural societies.

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“…Children who grow up in rural and urban areas are often socialized into recreation differently, and youthful leisure patterns are related to adult leisure choices (Burch, 1969;Buse & Enosh, 1977;Christensen & Yoesting, 1973;Scott & Willits, 1989;Sofranko & Nolan, 1972;Yoesting & Burkhead, 1973). For example, a rural upbringing has been shown to correlate with adult participation in higher numbers of outdoor activities (Yoesting & Christensen, 1978), as well as more frequent participation overall (Sofranko & Nolan, 1972).…”

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