REC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Motivation, Subculture, Microsoft Powerpoint

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

Document Summary

Discretionary time commitment: discretionary time commitment is an essentially, non-coerced, allocation of a certain amount of time in an activity, opposite is coerced time commitment. What are some benefits of serious leisure: self-enrichment, self-expression, self-actualization, regeneration or renewal of self, feelings of accomplishment, enhancement of self-image, social interaction and sense of belonging, lasting physical product of activity. Immediately and intrinsically rewarding, relatively short-lived and pleasurable; requires little to no training: 8 types: casual volunteering, pleasurable aerobic activity (+ 6 types from module) Project-based leisure: requires considerable planning, effort, and sometimes skill or knowledge, two types: one-shot and occasional. One-shot projects: making and tinkering (e. g. , crafts store project, liberal arts (e. g. , tourism, activity participation (e. g. , canoe trip, volunteering (e. g. , at an arts festival, entertainment theatre (e. g. , skit) Occasional projects: unlike one-shot, has the potential to become routinized, happens when there needs no further modification (e. g. , same christmas decorations, can have possibility of becoming unpleasant, a chore; no longer leisure.