Francis P. Noe

Race, Class, and Leisure Activity Preferences: Marginality and Ethnicity Revisited.

This study examines the relationship between race, leisure preferences, and class awareness. Based on interest-group theory of class identification, we hypothesized that blacks and whites who defin...

Gender, race, and subjective social class and their association with leisure preferences

Abstract This study examines the leisure preferences of subgroups defined by gender, race, and subjective social class. The multiple hierarchy stratification perspective and the class polarization perspective provided the theoretical rationale for the study, and a secondary data set from a national probability telephone survey was used. The interviews obtained information regarding the leisure preferences of adults age 21 to 65. From 2,148 contacts, 1, 711 interviews were completed. The results provide partial support for the studys hypotheses. Poor‐working‐class Black women were distinct from White men and women and middle‐class Black men, but they were similar to the other Black groups. As hypothesized, the leisure preferences of middle‐class Black and White men were similar. However, contrary to the studys hypothesis, Black men of different classes did not exhibit greater dissimilarity when compared with Black women of different classes.

Evaluation of outdoor recreational settings: A problem of measuring user satisfaction

Abstract The planning of sound and substantial outdoor recreational programs is dependent upon an understanding of the valuative process of satisfaction which is largely a result of user judgments. This study describes overall satisfaction as a function of instrumental and expressive factors, expectations, and past-use. The study revealed that expressive and instrumental factors may be stronger predictors of overall satisfaction than are the expectation factors or past-use. However, the relative importance of instrumental and expressive factors reveals site-specific variation.

The Pleasures of Youth: Parent and Peer Compliance Toward Discretionary Time

In the past, research into an adolescents leisure time has almost exclusively focused on furnishing a record or checklist of activities. This investigation evaluates attitudinal dimensions of leisure, peer identification, and parental accommodation as it relates to patterns of leisure present in an affluent adolescent subculture. Two factors emerged from the attitudinal study, representing achievement and egalitarian dispositions. Patterns of peer and parental compliance were measured against these dispositions. Parental and peer influences were found to affect the outcome of an adolescents attitudes. Differences between sexes and between early and late adolescence were also discovered to influence levels of compliance with parents and peers, thereby affecting an adolescents leisure attitudes.

Restrictive and Non-Restrictive Management of Park Visitors

Natural resource area managers who restrict recreational access to control resource damage from recreation, can expect backlash responses from recreationists. The extent of support expressed by recreationists for land management policies that would restrict behavior while at a national park was measured using a survey instrument. Two variables—environmental attitudes and knowledge of damage to park natural resources by recreationists—were found to be positively related to support for both nonrestrictive and restrictive visitor management policies. Frequent users of the park were less likely to express support for restrictive policies that limited their use of the park. Implications for management are discussed.