Serious Leisure: A Perspective for Our Time

By Robert A. Stebbins. 2006

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies

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Comparative study on methods of detecting research fronts using different types of citation (2009, background): “Stebbins in the early 1970s as a way of framing the study of leisure (Stebbins, 2007).”
Risk-tourism, risk-taking and subjective well-being: A review and synthesis (2017, background): “These leisure participants may be considered sub-segments of serious leisure tourists (cf. Stebbins, 2007).”
Sport Participation and Happiness Among Older Adults: A Mediating Role of Social Capital (2020, background): “Serious leisure is characterized differently from casual leisure based on six attributes: (a) need to preserve at the activity, (b) development of a leisure career, (c) need to put in effort to gain skill and knowledge, (d) gaining social and personal benefits, (e) unique ethos and social world, and”
Leisure as a Context for Youth Development and Delinquency Prevention (2006, background): “Participating in serious leisure (Stebbins, 2006) by definition is characterised by social bonds to a social world associated with others who enjoy the same pursuit.”
Blowing Open the Serious Leisure-Casual Leisure Dichotomy: What's In There? (2010, background): “The nature and characteristics of casual leisure are understudied and as Stebbins (2007) noted, ill defined in many cases.”
Hedonic and Eudaimonic Experiences among Wellness Tourists: An exploratory enquiry (2010, background): “Stebbins also asserted that serious leisure experiences might not always be pleasurable and they may sometimes involve danger, fright, or embarrassment (Stebbins, 1999, 2008).”
Leisure Time, Leisure Activities, and Happiness in China (2015, background): “The Western sense active and serious leisure (Stebbins, 2007) still seems to be distant to common people’s life in China.”
Triathlon, suffering and exciting significance (2008, background): “Through the exercise of economic and cultural capital in the sport, participants thus adopt a ‘serious leisure’ perspective that Stebbins (2006) outlines as common among the Canadian middle class.”