Women's Attitudes Towards Leisure and Family

Cyba, Eva

doi:10.1080/07053436.1992.10715408

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“…There are many things that impact upon perceptions of leisure, such as culture, demographics, and attitudes and there is a large and growing literature that has dealt with perceptions of leisure and the ethics of leisure (see, for example; Fennell 2006; Lovelock & Lovelock, 2013). While a great deal is known about attitudes towards leisure within countries (see, for example, Cyba, 1992;Lee & Tideswell, 2005;Rahkonen et al, 2016) and while much has been researched regarding ethical issues and leisure (see, for example, Sylvester, 2008;Sylvester, 1987), there is a need to understand how the political environment and political attitudes impact upon perceptions of leisure. Since political attitudes are something that informs a worldview and impacts upon a person's ethical compass, we look into how the political environment and general political attitudes impact upon how individuals perceive the importance of leisure in their lives.…”

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Individual Perceptions of the Value of Leisure: The Influence of the Social Democratic Welfare State and Leftist Values Systems

Webster¹,

Yen²,

Hji-Avgoustis³

2020

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In this work, the authors intend to show that a population’s experience with Marxist governance and an individual’s political ideology conditions individual perceptions of the value of leisure. The authors look into the cross-national variations of the perception of the value that individuals place on leisure, using a database with over 84,000 observations from the World Values Survey from 2010-2014. The authors postulate that Marxist leisure values that have permeated societies either via social democratic welfare states or a socialist welfare state experience create expectations for leisure and that the individual’s self-identification on a left/right political spectrum plays a role in influencing perceptions of the importance of leisure. Several individual-level indicators are used, to ensure that individual-level explanations are taken into account. The authors show that placing value upon leisure is influenced by social democratic regimes and a person’s political ideology on a left/right continuum.

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Individual Perceptions of the Value of Leisure: The Influence of the Social Democratic Welfare State and Leftist Values Systems

Webster¹,

Yen²,

Hji-Avgoustis³

2020

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“…There is a growing literature addressing women's leisure (e.g., Cyba, 1992;Kay, 2001;Shaw, 1985) with two key issues appearing: (a) women's experiences of time tend to be much more fragmented than those of many men, and (b) women tend to be the facilitators of others' leisure, and only secondarily the recipients of leisure themselves (Kinnaird & Hall, 1996), which means that family leisure becomes a source of both satisfaction and frustration for women (Clough, 2001).…”

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Family Time and Own Time on Holiday: Generation, Gender, and Group Dynamic Perspectives from New Zealand

Schaenzel¹

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<p>This thesis is about the family holiday experiences of the whole family group and its individual members by studying the anticipations before the holiday and the short- and longer-term holiday experiences/recollections after their holiday. This primarily qualitative study links a survey with data triangulation of whole-family interviews. The combination of different methods reflects the holistic and critical research approach within the interpretive research paradigm. It takes a symbolic interactionist perspective which allows a focus on inter-personal relations and forms the basis for a grounded theory methodology (GTM). There is an absence of family tourism research on the experiences of the father, the child, and on group dynamics which has excluded the individual and collective perspectives on the different phases of the holiday. The conceptual framework addresses the gaps identified (as reflected in the research question) by exploring the social experiences and meanings of family holidays over time using gender, generation, and group perspectives. This study is based on a parental survey through schools which was followed by three rounds of whole-family interviews (once before and twice after the holiday) conducted over about one year (2006-2007). The survey with 110 parents provided context and selection of participants for the intensive study of 10 families and their members (20 parents and 20 children). This study resulted in a definition of family holidays based on parental perspectives from the survey and familial perspectives from the interviews which encapsulated notions of togetherness, plurality of families, purpose, change of routine, fun, balance, individual pursuits, compromise, conflict, and length. The iterative research combined with the GTM resulted in a theoretical framework of the main themes on family holidays as governed by family time and own time. Family time encapsulates the time spent together with the immediate and extended family while own time encapsulates freedoms from family commitments to pursue own interests alone or with peers. The relationship between these notions of time leads to the internal family group dynamics of cooperation, compromise, and conflict which are influenced by contextual factors. While family time dominates the Western discourse on family life, it is the inclusion of more individualistic elements in own time that acknowledges a more realistic and sustainable presentation of family holidays. Other results highlight that parents and children bring different purposes on holiday in that parents are more deliberate about social identity formation whereas children seek fun and sociality. The findings also emphasise the undervaluation of the fathers' role as main entertainer of the children. Thus, more debate is needed about the different generational, gendered, and group roles and understandings on holiday. Family holidays, then, have multiple meanings and purposes reflecting the multivocality of its members. A more holistic and critical approach in thinking and research is needed to allow for a homeostasis between social identities based on collective pursuits and on more individual interests.</p>

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Leisure, Work and Gender

Feuvre¹

1994

Time & Society

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In this article, I address the question of the relationship between women's labour market position and their `objective' and `subjective' experience of leisure. With reference to a small-scale empirical study of the social time use of mothers in France, I argue that it is misleading to consider women's leisure experience as being determined by their labour market position. I attempt to show that it could prove more fruitful to examine the complex relationship between women's class and gender identities and their simultaneous experience of work, family and leisure.

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Women's Attitudes Towards Leisure and Family

Cited by 6 publications

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Individual Perceptions of the Value of Leisure: The Influence of the Social Democratic Welfare State and Leftist Values Systems

Individual Perceptions of the Value of Leisure: The Influence of the Social Democratic Welfare State and Leftist Values Systems

Family Time and Own Time on Holiday: Generation, Gender, and Group Dynamic Perspectives from New Zealand

Leisure, Work and Gender

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