Accounting for Leisure Preferences from Within: The Relative Contributions of Gender, Race or Ethnicity, Personality, Affective Style, and Motivational Orientation

The Relationship between Player’s Value Systems and Their In-Game Behavior in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game

“…There have been numerous studies about the factors that may affect leisure activity of a given group, community, and population, such as age, education, income, sex, occupation, and social class [6]. However, for predicting leisure behavior, the traditional demographic variables have proven to be weak, and, as suggested before, personality may be a better predictor of choice than demographics for experiential products [7].…”

Barriers to Swimming and Water Safety Education for African Americans

“…Quantitative studies are unable to tell us why one group of people chooses one leisure activity over another (Barnett, 2006;Floyd, 1998;Floyd & Shinew, 1999;Floyd, Shinew, McGuire, & Noe, 1994;Hibbler & Shinew, 2002;Lee, Scott, & Floyd, 2001;Philipp, 1997Philipp, , 1999Philipp, , 2000Shinew, Floyd, & Parry, 2004;Wolch & Zhang, 2004).…”

“…1). In the Wolch & Zhang (2004) and Barnett (2006) studies, both identify that there are differences in water-related leisure choices, the result of which is less participation by African Americans. These studies in general supported that swimming is viewed as an activity in which European Americans participate and African Americans do not.…”

Leisure and tourism in Sweden: A Challenge for All Actors

“…Generally, gender is a strong predictor of participation in "active" pursuits (Barnett, 2006). Males and females have different patterns of activity (Schmalz & Kerstetter, 2006), so young men and young women might learn different social skills (Meece & Daniels, 2008).…”