Douglas Kleiber argues that the value of leisure for development lies in the particular experiences derived from those leisure activities. Experiences that fulfill a need for autonomy, competence, self-expression, and relatedness; that provide a dialectical response to one’s prevailing patterns of living; or that address age-related tasks are generative of development and self-actualization. Kleiber reviews the predictable changes in leisure behavior over the life span, noting that activities stimulating developmental change are adopted less often and less effectively than they might be. He then considers the role that leisure experience can play in addressing the problems of socialization, identity formation, and adjustment to life circumstances, concluding with a discussion of optimizing leisure later in life.
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Douglas Kleiber is professor and chair in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Georgia at Athens.
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The subject of leisure has challenged writers and scholars throughout recorded history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Journal of Leisure Research, University Press, Leisure Sciences, Basic Books, Academic Press, Being Adolescent, Erik Erikson, Man's Life, State College, Motivational Reorientation, San Francisco, The Evolving Self, United States, Alfred Knopf, Newbury Park, Social Psychology of Leisure, Psychological Perspectives, Review of Educational Research, The Hurried Child, University of Chicago Press, Divergent Realities, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Reed Larson, Replacing Leisure Activities New!
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The subject of leisure has challenged writers and scholars throughout recorded history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
serious leisure activities, personal expressiveness, leisure affords, leisure behavior, leisure experience, preferred experience, leisure contexts, continuity theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Journal of Leisure Research, University Press, Leisure Sciences, Basic Books, Academic Press, Being Adolescent, Erik Erikson, Man's Life, State College, Motivational Reorientation, San Francisco, The Evolving Self, United States, Alfred Knopf, Newbury Park, Social Psychology of Leisure, Psychological Perspectives, Review of Educational Research, The Hurried Child, University of Chicago Press, Divergent Realities, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Reed Larson, Replacing Leisure Activities New!
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