Positive Leisure Science
From Subjective Experience to Social Contexts
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Beschreibung
This book extends positive psychology by embedding leisure into the positive science field, following a new paradigm and aggregating various domains and fields. Positive science can be applied to the field of leisure and, in turn, leisure can serve as an arena to study some of the most important optimal functioning variables. The book presents knowledge on a diverse range of topics about optimizing socio-cognitive processes and behaviors, places and contexts, societies and cultures through leisure. These topics are unified by an underlying continuum that extends from individuals and subjective experiences to social worlds. The contributions highlight components of everyday life, showing that subjective experience and life trajectories are structured and social goals and life purposes are defined and achieved within interactions between individuals and their lived contexts and environments in daily life.
This book extends positive psychology by embedding leisure into the positive science field, following a new paradigm and aggregating various domains and fields. Positive science can be applied to the field of leisure and, in turn, leisure can serve as an arena to study some of the most important optimal functioning variables. The book presents knowledge on a diverse range of topics about optimizing socio-cognitive processes and behaviors, places and contexts, societies and cultures through leisure. These topics are unified by an underlying continuum that extends from individuals and subjective experiences to social worlds. The contributions highlight components of everyday life, showing that subjective experience and life trajectories are structured and social goals and life purposes are defined and achieved within interactions between individuals and their lived contexts and environments in daily life.
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Promotes new reflections and a new focus of analysis Shows the positive impact of leisure as a main source of optimized human development and well-being Integrates the study of different populations and life contexts across the life course Brings together researchers from various scientific fields across different countries
Autor*in
Teresa Freire
Themen in »Positive Leisure Science«
Adolescent Leisure Fatherhood and parent-child contact Flow and Happiness Flow and Leisure Future reserch directions on leisure Health and well-being for adolescents Human and Social Potentialities Individual and Social Development Leisure experiencein adolescents Leisure in family contexts Life skills for young adults Nature of happiness Optimal Experience Optimal Socio-Cognitive Functioning Positive Experience