Rick Crandall

Motivations for leisure.

This paper provides a brief overview of several lines of research which can now be said to constitute an “area,” called here motivations for leisure. The paper touches on past and current research ...

The Psychological Structure of Leisure: Activities, Needs, People

The present study demonstrates a technique for clustering leisure activities which takes into consideration individual differences in the perceived needs that the activities satisfy. This extends p...

Social interaction, affect and leisure.

ABSTRACTThis paper emphasizes two approaches to the study of leisure. First, evidence suggesting that social interaction is an important leisure activity is discussed. It is also suggested that soc...

Wilderness use and self-actualization.

ABSTRACTThe concept of self-actualization is a complex one that is widely used in humanistic psychology. Maslow (1968) developed the concept of self-actualization to represent a positive ideal of m...

The Psychology of Leisure: 1975.

ABSTRACTThe 1975 American Psychological Association meetings included the second symposium on leisure, indicating continued interest in this area among psychologists. This paper discusses some rece...

A General Bibliography of Leisure Publications

ABSTRACTThree hundred leisure-related references were collected from four abstract sources. They are organized into seventeen categories. These are: concepts, bibliographies, methods, work and leisure, cross-cultural leisure, family leisure, group differences, specific activities, television, outdoor recreation, therapeutic recreation, leisure counseling and education, mental retardation, sports and physical education, professional recreation issues, youth, and play. Other subcategories within these groups include the blind, camping, the elderly, games, toys, travel, and urban recreation. For greater convenience the entries are cross referenced and indexed by both author and keywords. Different sections will be of interest to different people but there should be some references of interest to anyone interested in leisure.