Leisure experience and human development : a dialectical interpretation / Douglas A. Kleiber.

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Main Author: Kleiber, Douglas A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999.
Series:Lives in context.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Many Faces of Leisure. Leisure as Context. Manifestations of Preferred Experience. The Place of Leisure in the Study of Development. Plan of This Book
  • 2. Development, Motivation, and Leisure. Sources of Development. Intrinsic Motivation: The Push from Inside. Leisure and Development
  • 3. Changes in Leisure Behavior over the Life Span. Life Span Changes. Childhood: The Emergence of Leisure. Adolescence: Finding a Self to Be Enjoyed. Adulthood: Role-Determined Leisure. Negative Life Events
  • 4. Socialization Through Play and Leisure Activity. Socialization. The Power of Play. Structured Activities and Serious Leisure. Emotional Development. Social Competence, Morality, and Relatedness. The Development of Personal Competence. Extracurricular Activity. Deviance and Conformity. Unequal Playing Fields. Overaccommodation, Reproduction, and Resistance. Socialization into Adulthood
  • 5. Leisure Experience and the Formation of Identity. Dimensions and Dialectics of Identity. The Relevance of Leisure in Identity Formation. The Derailment of Identity Formation in Leisure. Leisure Identity and Stabilization
  • 6. Personal Expressiveness and the Transcendence of Negative Life Events. Negative Life Events. The Relevance of Leisure in Negative Life Events. Negative Life Events: Loss of Leisure, Loss of Self. Leisure Restored and Lives Restoried
  • 7. Self-Renewal and Generativity in Middle Age. Individuation and Self-Renewal. Leisure as a Context for Individuation and Self-Renewal. Generativity. Leisure as a Context for Generativity. Reconsidering Generativity and Self-Renewal. Optimizing Leisure for Self-Renewal and Generativity
  • 8. Engagement, Disengagement, and Integration in Later Life. Leisure and Aging Well. Ego Integrity. Engagement. Disengagement. Integration. Retirement.