Summary Leisure book – chapter 1 – 9
Chapter 1
What is spare time? (not tangible)
- Objectiie (facts): no interpretiie iferences possible to the escriptionn.
Spare time = all time – work – school – care responsibilities – personal time
The ialue of spare time = it is especially useful where quantitatiie (amount) research is
being one, for example CBS an SCPn.
- Subjectiie (in iii ual personal iiew): spare time is only spare time if the person
experiences it as such (quality experiences)
Culture epen ency (research results) eieryone experiences things that we can escribe as
spare timen.
Some facts:
1n. Social contacts, music an ance, an the use of alcohol an rugs, are recognize in
all cultures of the worl n.
2n. In all languages only 10% haie a wor that can be irectly translate to leisure or
spare timen.
3n. The aierage of spare time is 4,5 hour per ayn.
4n. The preferences for spen ing spare time are strongly epen ing on culturen.
Time behaiiour an experience:
Approach Name Subject Characteristic Releiant if you
Objectiie Temporal Time How much Wish to
spare time compare
aiailable? numbers or
amounts
Behaiioural Behaiiour How oes one Want to know
use their spare how people
time? behaie, an
how you can
What oes explain an
leisure infuence that
behaiiour looks
like?
Subjectiie Mental Experience How oes one Want to
experience un erstan an
spare time? map people’s
motiies,
feelings an
experiences
, Chapter 2
Chapter 1
What is spare time? (not tangible)
- Objectiie (facts): no interpretiie iferences possible to the escriptionn.
Spare time = all time – work – school – care responsibilities – personal time
The ialue of spare time = it is especially useful where quantitatiie (amount) research is
being one, for example CBS an SCPn.
- Subjectiie (in iii ual personal iiew): spare time is only spare time if the person
experiences it as such (quality experiences)
Culture epen ency (research results) eieryone experiences things that we can escribe as
spare timen.
Some facts:
1n. Social contacts, music an ance, an the use of alcohol an rugs, are recognize in
all cultures of the worl n.
2n. In all languages only 10% haie a wor that can be irectly translate to leisure or
spare timen.
3n. The aierage of spare time is 4,5 hour per ayn.
4n. The preferences for spen ing spare time are strongly epen ing on culturen.
Time behaiiour an experience:
Approach Name Subject Characteristic Releiant if you
Objectiie Temporal Time How much Wish to
spare time compare
aiailable? numbers or
amounts
Behaiioural Behaiiour How oes one Want to know
use their spare how people
time? behaie, an
how you can
What oes explain an
leisure infuence that
behaiiour looks
like?
Subjectiie Mental Experience How oes one Want to
experience un erstan an
spare time? map people’s
motiies,
feelings an
experiences
, Chapter 2
