Browsing Recreation and Leisure Studies by Title
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Parents, employment, gender and well-being: a time use study
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-21)Transformations in the economy have led to changes in employment practices that can create a mismatch between parents’ work schedules and family routines. At the same time, approaches to child-rearing have become more ... -
Parks and Recreation Master Plans in Ontario: Determining Factors that Lead to Implementation
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-17)Recreation planning occurs in many Ontario municipalities, yet there is little research on the factors leading to successful implementation. Recreation departments are often asked to do more with less, which is difficult ... -
Participatory Approaches to Re-Imagining Women’s Social Inclusion as Social Justice: Experiences of Community after Federal Incarceration in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-29)Women who have been incarcerated are disadvantaged in many respects as they enter community (Pedlar, Arai, Yuen, & Fortune, 2008). When putting their lives back together upon release they typically face tremendous hardships ... -
Partnership Evaluation Practices in Public-Nonprofit Community Sport Relationships: Understanding Resource Dependency
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)Interorganizational relationships (IORs) can offer community sport organizations (CSOs) a comprehensive and coordinated approach to address the complex issues in their environment (Misener & Doherty, 2014). IORs offer each ... -
Perceived Emotional Synchrony in Virtual Watch Parties
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-28)The appeal of many leisure activities emerges from “shared experience,” wherein participants feel an emotional synchrony with fellow participants. Essentially, participants’ emotions are enhanced by their awareness of and ... -
Perceptions of Risk at Meetings and Conferences: An Event Planner's Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2009-07-15)Events are a part of every culture and community (Allen, et al., 2002; Getz, 1997; Getz, 2007; Rogers, 2003). They may differ in their purpose (celebration, education, marketing), but at the core they are a gathering ... -
THE PERFECT STORM: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY OF IN-PATIENT MENTAL HEALTH RECOVERY (TRAUMA AND SUBSTANCE-USE): A NARRATIVE EXPLORATION
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)Given the marginalizing effects of a mental health diagnosis, individuals with a mental health diagnosis, more specifically those in early recovery of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance-use disorders (SUDs), ... -
A phenomenological investigation of spirituality in outdoor recreation experiences
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-22)There exists a rich history of people describing meaningful moments during outdoor recreation as spiritual experiences. These involve connecting to something bigger than yourself, and recognizing your place in a larger ... -
Picturing Leisure: Using Photovoice to Understand the Experience of Leisure and Dementia
(Nova Southeastern University: College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, 2013-03-18)Interviews and participant observation are commonly used to explore the experience of dementia, yet may not adequately capture perspectives of persons with dementia as communication changes. We used photovoice (i.e., using ... -
Policy-Practice Mismatch? Sustainable Nature-Based Tourism in Trinidad and Tobago.
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-26)Trinidad and Tobago, a twin island Caribbean nation has always been heavily dependent on the oil and gas industry for its economic survival. Due to the volatility of the energy sector, government’s efforts are now geared ... -
Political Economy of Tourism: Residents’ Power, Trust in Government, and Political Support for Development
(University of Waterloo, 2012-11-06)Citizens’ trust in government institutions and their political support for development are important preconditions for a democratic and sustainable form of development. In the context of tourism, it is important that ... -
Privileging Indigenous voices: Narratives of travel experiences of Tibetans
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-11)In 2012, Peters and Higgins-Desbiolles, wrote “What is wholly absent [from the tourism literature] …is any recognition of Indigenous peoples as tourists” (p.78). Chambers and Buzinde (2015) acknowledged that “tourism ... -
The Problem with Too Much Fear: Testing the Interaction between Fear Appeals, Message Framing and Visual Metaphors
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-28)In Canada, recreational activities account for 60% of all drowning related deaths (LSS, 2012). How can we influence people to adopt safe behaviours while engaging in recreational activity around the water? One popular ... -
Questioning the Unquestioned: Scale Development to Assess Ecotourist Ethics
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)While most ecotourist definitions and typologies have relied on concepts ingrained in traveler behaviours or destinations, none has benefited from a consideration of personal ethics. The study of ecotourism has virtually ... -
The Raging Grannies: Understanding the Role of Activism in the Lives of Older Women
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Guided by feminist gerontology, this qualitative study explored the role of activism in the lives of older women. More specifically, it examined the involvement of older women in one particular group of activists, the ... -
Raising Healthy Females: Parental perceptions of roles and responsibilities
(University of Waterloo, 2007-11-22)Within North America, more children are being classified as overweight and obese than ever before. Despite this alarming finding, limited research has been conducted on parents’ views of their children’s health in addition ... -
Reconceptualising relationships in the dementia context: Imagining the caring process as fertile ground for friendship between persons living with dementia and paid care partners
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-02)Increasing concerns about the task-oriented, disease focused, and impersonal culture of Long Term Care (LTC) have led to calls for the adoption of relational caring, advocating for relationships to be at the centre of all ... -
The Relationship between Class and Reading: An Examination of the Cultural Omnivore Hypothesis
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-01)The relationship between socio-economic status (SES), and breadth of book genre readership was tested utilizing Canadian secondary data. Grounded in the cultural omnivore hypothesis, higher levels of SES were expected to ... -
The relationship between online gaming and wellbeing among post-secondary students
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-06)As the “fastest growing form of entertainment in the world” (Tran, 2019, p. 76), gaming has become a significant part of our society (Groening & Binnewies, 2019). Considering its widespread popularity as a leisure activity ... -
Resident Attitudes towards Tourism Development in Conservative Cultures: The Case of Qatar
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-15)Over the past decade, Persian Gulf countries witnessed an increase in tourism development and the number of international tourists. Though tourism development plays an important role in enhancing economies, tourism ...