REC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Factor Analysis, Instant Messaging, Ragheb Alama
1 Dec 2012
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Some people actually feel bored in their leisure: leisure boredom: a mismatch between desired arousal producing characteristics of leisure experiences, and perceptual or actual availability of such leisure experiences (iso-ahola & weissinger, 1990) Mismatch between what people want to do, and what people are able to do: barnett & wolf klitzing (2006) connected leisure boredom to a lack of meaningful and involving leisure pursuits. Not like watching tv, but something meaningful. Experiencing boredom can lead to many antisocial/delinquent behaviours (drug use, drinking, vandalism, high-risk sexual behaviour) There are some common findings in terms of predictors/contributing factors to leisure boredom: social control factors (ex. lack of control of their own leisure time = more leisure boredom) Age (older adolescents experience less lb) lack of challenge in leisure (more on this later) experience more lb individual intrinsic motivation (higher intrinsic motivation tended to experiences less lb) What this [leader boredom] demonstrates is that not everything satisfies us in our leisure.
