REC100 Lecture 7: Module 7 – Leisure Constraints & The Darker Side of Leisure

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: REC100
• Professor: Bryan Smale

Document Summary

Things that can interfere in leisure experiences include interests, preferences, participation, non-participation, enjoyment, social relations. Leisure constraints include intrapersonal constraints (which could explain lack of interest), interpersonal constraints (the date, as well as absence of friends), the structural constraints (costs, lack of time, other commitments, perceptions of recreation resources and facilities) Leisure constraint research aims to investigate factors that are assumed by researchers and/or perceived or experienced by individuals to limit the formation of leisure preferences and or to inhibit or prohibit participation and enjoyment in leisure. U(cid:374)de(cid:396)sta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual"s leisu(cid:396)e (cid:272)hoi(cid:272)es a(cid:374)d (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iou(cid:396) (cid:396)e(cid:395)ui(cid:396)es i(cid:374)(cid:448)estigatio(cid:374) of all fa(cid:272)to(cid:396)s, both positive and negative that influence those choices. (1) constraints are immovable, static obstacles to participation. (2) the most significant, if perhaps not the only, effect of constraints on leisure is to block or limit participation. The absence or presence of constraints would explain why a person does or does not participate in an activity.