Browsing Recreation and Leisure Studies by Subject "leisure"
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Becoming-with More-than-human Protected Areas
(University of Waterloo, 2023-11-28)The planet is currently undergoing immense and permanent geological change and environmental decline, a period some scholars have referred to as the Anthropocene. Climate change and environmental events, biodiversity ... -
“But I want to go home!” A qualitative exploration of the experience of summer camp from two contrasting perspectives
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-01)The mention of the term “summer camp” often brings to mind cabins nestled in the woods, cool lakes, warm campfires and children having fun as they swim, paddle and play. At traditional residential camps children are imagined ... -
Caregivers of long-term cancer survivors: The role leisure plays in improving psychological well-being
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)Cancer rates are on the rise and there is also an increase in the number of cancer survivors. This results in an increase of caregivers for those survivors. Many caregivers experience negative impacts of caregiving, including ... -
Choir Participation and Community Wellbeing: A Social Identity Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-03)Research about choir and community wellbeing shows that there is a positive association between the two constructs. In addition, the positive association between choir participation and community wellbeing seems to be ... -
Diapers and Dissertations: An Exploration of Doctoral and Postdoctoral Trainee Decision-Making Surrounding First-Time Parenthood
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-06)While published literature over the past several decades has related the perspectives of established academic mothers, decidedly less attention has been devoted to the topic of parenthood among trainees at the doctoral and ... -
Expanding Understandings: Meanings and Experiences of Wellness from the Perspectives of Residents Living in Long-Term Care (LTC) Homes
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-18)Persons 65 years or older are the fastest growing demographic in Canada (Government of Canada, 2011) and the need for 24-hour care and LTC support will continue to rise. An association is typically drawn between death and ... -
An Exploration of Korean Immigrant Women's Leisure in Spiritual Settings
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-14)The purpose of this study was to explore the role and significance that ethnic churches have in the lives of Korean immigrant women in Canada. Particular attention was paid to the ethnic church as a potential leisure site, ... -
Exploring volunteering experiences of South Asian Indians and their intersections with community identity and daily life in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-19)There is abundant evidence that volunteering generates both positive and negative impacts on the daily lives of volunteers as well as individuals in the communities they serve (Cavanaugh et al., 2000; Han et al., 2020, ... -
The homing of the home: Exploring gendered work, leisure, social construction, and loss through women’s family memory keeping
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-18)Using a feminist, autoethnographic methodology and in depth interviews with twenty-three participants, I sought to better understand the meaning of family memory keeping for women and their families through this research, ... -
Leisure in a time of transition: A qualitative investigation into the leisure involvement of first-year university students
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-26)Every September, tens of thousands of students enter the world of higher education for the first time, and face numerous new challenges without their traditional support systems. The literature indicates that leisure ... -
Living with hope in the midst of Change: The meaning of leisure within the context of dementia
(University of Waterloo, 2009-06-26)Research exploring identity in the dementia context reveals that some aspects of personal and social identity persist in dementia while others evolve as persons living with dementia find ways to live with the changes in ... -
The Missing Link: Explorations of Wellness when a Family Member Resides in Long-Term Care
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)With the aging of our population and the higher risk of chronic illness and disability with age, more and more family members may be faced with the experience of having a relative transition into a long-term care (LTC) ... -
Opportunities for Redress: Re-imagining Relations, Restoration, and Leisure for Uniformed Bodies serving as First Responders
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-17)In times of distress, uniformed first responders (UFRs) are the first formal line of care on scene and are responsible for providing care. Due to the obligations required of UFRs, they are considered to be at higher risk ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Risky performances: A feminist, dramaturgical exploration of the female diarist as resistant
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-26)This study seeks to explore the meaning of diary-keeping for women. In particular, this research is focused on the relationships between the diary and leisure, the diary and performance, and the diary and dominant gender ... -
Single and ready to mingle? A feminist exploration of singlehood, dating, and leisure
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-24)Stemming from my own experiences (and tensions and paradoxes) negotiating the complexity involved in dating as a single, adult woman, this study explores the gendered complexity of singlehood for adult women. To unpack ... -
A Tale of Two Schoolings: A leisure scholar’s autoethnographic exploration of different learning settings
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-10)What do homeschooling, public school, leisure studies, and factors such as freedom of choice, trust, and competence have in common? I have been asking myself this question for over a decade now. Or, rather, not so much ... -
Understanding commitment and the contingent leisure service worker: an interpretive approach
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-18)Over the past few decades, hundreds of empirical investigations have examined the construct of “workplace commitment”. Much of this research is based on the assumption that commitment is tied to longevity within a given ... -
Voluntary Simplicity as a Value Orientation in the Lifestyle, Leisure, Well-being Relationship
(University of Waterloo, 2002)Leisure typically has been regarded as a positive component in people's lives, and evidence points to its central rather than peripheral role in lifestyle. Further, studies of leisure suggest it is conducive to psychological ...