Relation of Childhood and Adult Leisure Activities

Patrick, Catharine

doi:10.1080/00224545.1945.9712298

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“…Patrick (1945) found that the leisure time activities of adults did not highly correlate with those of their childhood. Yoesting and Burckhead (1973) examined the significance of childhood recreation experiences on adult leisure behavior.…”

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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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confidence: 87%