Leisure as a Resource in Transcending Negative Life Events: Self-Protection, Self-Restoration, and Personal Transformation

By D. Kleiber, S. Hutchinson, Richard E. Williams. 2002

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Stress, resilience and leisure coping among university students: applying the broaden-and-build theory (2017, unknown): “Given the evidence linking positive emotions with leisure coping (Kleiber et al., 2002; Salovey et al., 2000) and resilience (Tugade & Fredrickson, 2004), it”
Gifts of the Ordinary: Casual Leisure's Contributions to Health and Well-Being (2005, background): “The first proposition suggested that leisure offers self-protection, buffering the impact of negative life events, by being distracting and by generating optimism about the future (Kleiber et al., 2002).”
Voices from the Margins: Stress, Active Living, and Leisure as a Contributor to Coping with Stress (2006, background): “The role of leisure in coping with stress is a central theme in this body of work, along with the inseparable link between the nature of stress and the functions or mechanisms used in coping (eg, leisure) ( Kleiber, Hutchinson, & Williams, 2002 ).”
The Playful Advantage: How Playfulness Enhances Coping with Stress (2013, methodology): “The third function posited that “leisure activities buffer the impact of negative life events by aiding in the reconstruction of a life story that is continuous with the past” (Kleiber et al., 2002, p. 228). This referred to the ability to overcome something traumatic and return to a sense of normal”
From job crafting to home crafting: A daily diary study among six European countries (2020, background): “In other words, when individuals have the possibility for self-determination, they will expand rather than restrict the scope of their non-work activities in order to facilitate their positive transformation and growth (Kleiber et al., 2002).”
Crafting one’s leisure time in response to high job strain (2016, background): “On the other hand, leisure has the potential to transcend negative life events (Kleiber et al., 2002) and help individuals compensate for undesired states of other life domains.”
Building on strengths and resilience: leisure as a stress survival strategy (2005, background): “In another paper, Klitzing (2003) demonstrated that homeless women, despite the enormous and ongoing difficulties they faced, used various leisure-based coping strategies such as being with others, engaging in diversionary leisure to relax, religiosity and positive thinking, and physical activities.”
‘Colour and communion’: Exploring the influences of visual art-making as a leisure activity on older women's subjective well-being (2010, methodology): “This theme has also been elaborated by Kleiber et al (2002) and Caldwell (2005).”
Expanding, Reducing, Concentrating and Diffusing: Post Retirement Leisure Behavior and Life Satisfaction (2007, background): “Continuity may also serve as a coping strategy when facing negative life events that occur in old age ( Kleiber, Hutchinson & Williams, 2002 ).”
Leisure and health: why is leisure therapeutic? (2005, background): “Kleiber and his colleagues (Kleiber, 2004; Kleiber et al ., 2002) are currently exploring the question of whether or not some degree of transformation might occur to an individual who has experienced a traumatic life event such that he or she would be better off after the event than before.”
Friendships Developed Subsequent to a Stressful Life Event: The Interplay of Leisure, Social Capital, and Health (2008, background): “Summing up the common sentiment among contributors to the leisure and stress-coping literature, Kleiber, Hutchinson, and Williams (2002) argued leisure serves as a resource for the self-protective effects of coping.”