Gifts of the Ordinary: Casual Leisure's Contributions to Health and Well-Being

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Highway to health? Commute time and well-being among Canadian adults (2014, background): “The loss of physically active leisure time likely diminshes its potential as a resource in coping with stress (e.g., Hutchinson & Kleiber, 2005; Iwasaki, 2003).”
Daily experience of serious leisure, flow and subjective well‐being of older adults (2010, background): “As Hutchinson and Kleiber ( 2005 ) noted, casual leisure could be meaningful to participants because of benefits such as buffering immediate stress, buffering the impact of negative life events and sustaining coping efforts.”
Beyond fun and friendship: the Red Hat Society as a coping resource for older women (2008, result): “This finding is also consistent with other research on the role of leisure in coping with negative life events (Hutchinson et al. 2003; Hutchinson and Kleiber 2005).”
The Serious Leisure Perspective and the Experience of Leisure (2017, background): “As Hutchinson and Kleiber (2005) establish, when people are feeling vulnerable or stressed it is often casual rather than serious leisure activitywhich is vital in enabling them to cope.”
Blowing Open the Serious Leisure-Casual Leisure Dichotomy: What's In There? (2010, background): “By comparison, its conceptual counterpart, casual leisure has received scant attention, bearing few empirical studies (Hutchinson & Kleiber, 2005; Shinew & Parry, 2005; Stebbins, 2004).”