Contributions of Leisure Participation in Predicting Stress Coping and Health                 among Police and Emergency Response Services Workers

Objectives: Leisure is a domain of life that is very important, particularly for people with neurological disorders. However, due to social and cultural differences, leisure activities have not been studied extensively. The aim of this study is to determine the different factors influencing leisure activities among people afflicted with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) within the framework of Iranian culture. Methods:We used two independent qualitative studies: 1) interviews conducted with 11 professional that related to these patients and 2) open-ended questionnaires that were completed by 49 patients with MS. Qualitative and quantitative analyses were performed on the data obtained.Results: Six factors were extracted from the analyses on each of the two studies: social, individual, physical, art-cultural, spiritual/religious and educational. Discussion: Our results suggest that the leisure activities of the MS patients are influenced by six factors. We suggest that studies concerning leisure activities of Iranian MS patients should consider these factors.

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“…Another study considered selected passive factor. All of these factors may be similar to the individual factor of present study [24,32,33].…”

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confidence: 64%

“…It is expected of MS patients as well as other people to spend most of their lives with others. Going to a party, represents the most common event of social life, which has also been mentioned in several studies [31][32][33][34][35][36].…”

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confidence: 99%

Leisure of People With Multiple Sclerosis: A Content Analysis

Hosseini

Sarhady

Gharaborghe

et al. 2017

IRJ

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“…Silverstein and Parker (2002) argued on the contribution of Leisure to 'successful' old age, a finding supported by Dann (2001), Nimrod (2007), and Coleman and Iso-Ahola (1993). Iwasaki et al (2005), Iwasaki (2007), and Jeffrey and Dobos A substantial amount of work provides support for the need to have a separate Vacations domain in Quality of Life. For example, the desire to travel has been argued as a fundamental need, and viewed almost as a universal right (Urry, 1990;Urry, 1995).…”

Section: The Contribution Of Vacations To People's Quality Of Lifementioning

confidence: 75%

Quality-of-Life and Travel Motivations: Integrating the Two Concepts in the Grevillea Model

Dolničar

Lazarevski

Yanamandram

2011

Handbook of Tourism and Quality-of-Life Research

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Over the past three decades, two bodies of literature have developed relatively independently: Quality of Life research in Psychology and Travel Motivations research in Tourism. Yet, the constructs underlying these two bodies of research are strongly interrelated. This book chapter: (1) reviews the Quality of Life research area with a specific focus on the role of vacations as a Quality of Life domain; (2) reviews prior work in the area of Travel Motivations with a specific focus on motivational segments which may be associated with differences in the importance people attribute to vacations in general; and (3) proposes a conceptual model, referred to as the Grevillea Model, that integrates heterogeneity in the population with respect to both the importance attributed to vacations and Travel Motivations. Tourism. Yet, the constructs underlying these two bodies of research are strongly interrelated.This book chapter: (1) reviews the Quality of Life research area with a specific focus on the role of vacations as a Quality of Life domain; (2) reviews prior work in the area of Travel Motivations with a specific focus on motivational segments which may be associated with differences in the importance people attribute to vacations in general; and (3) proposes a conceptual model, referred to as the Grevillea Model, that integrates heterogeneity in the population with respect to both the importance attributed to vacations and Travel Motivations.

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“…Furthermore, cultural activities such as visiting a museum or an opera may be used as a coping strategy to deal with health problems (e.g. Iwasaki et al, 2005). Cultural events may thus provide an opportunity to deal with everyday problems or negative life events improving physical and psychological well-being.…”

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confidence: 99%

Leave the Drama on the Stage: The Effect of Cultural Participation on Health

Thiel

2015

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. AbstractThe aim of this study is to estimate the causal effect of cultural participation on health status. Cultural activities may directly impact upon health through palliative coping or substituting health-compromising behaviors. Cultural engagement may also facilitate the development of social networks, which can improve health via social support and the dissemination of social health norms. Previous estimates on the arts-health relationship are potentially biased due to reverse causality and unobserved heterogeneity. Using individuallevel data from Germany, we employ propensity-score matching methods. The treatment group is confined to individuals that visit cultural events at least once a month. The participation equation includes a rich set of personal characteristics that cover the respondents' demographic and social background, social capital and leisure-time activities, health-related lifestyle, personality and childhood environment. We explicitly consider reverse causality by including the pre-treatment trends in health outcomes am...

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Contributions of Leisure Participation in Predicting Stress Coping and Health among Police and Emergency Response Services Workers

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Leisure of People With Multiple Sclerosis: A Content Analysis

Leisure of People With Multiple Sclerosis: A Content Analysis

Quality-of-Life and Travel Motivations: Integrating the Two Concepts in the Grevillea Model

Leave the Drama on the Stage: The Effect of Cultural Participation on Health

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