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Patterns of leisure experiences and its relation to leisure time activities: a study among teenagers in the Brussels-capital region

Hans Berten (UGent) and An Piessens (UGent)
(2015)
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Most leisure research to date is embedded in a health discourse and focuses on patterns of leisure activities and its various multifaceted determinants or health benefits. In this study we make use of a lifeworld orientation to leisure, and focus attention on the different ways children experience and give purpose to the temporal and spatial aspects of leisure time. Using data from the Brussels Leisure Research Project, which collected data from a sample of Flemish students aged 11-18 years old (N = 2,448), we were able to distinguish three underlying dimensions of leisure experience (outdoor-orientation, boredom, and lack of time) and three clusters of youngsters with similar patterns on these underlying dimensions. We further discuss how this typology of leisure experience is linked to different choices of leisure activities on the one hand and socio-demographic background characteristics on the other hand.

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Berten, Hans, and An Piessens. Patterns of Leisure Experiences and Its Relation to Leisure Time Activities: A Study among Teenagers in the Brussels-Capital Region. Kind & Samenleving, 2015.
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Berten, H., & Piessens, A. (2015). Patterns of leisure experiences and its relation to leisure time activities: a study among teenagers in the Brussels-capital region. Presented at the European Sociological Association, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Berten, Hans, and An Piessens. 2015. “Patterns of Leisure Experiences and Its Relation to Leisure Time Activities: A Study among Teenagers in the Brussels-Capital Region.” In . Brussels, Belgium: Kind & Samenleving.
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Berten, Hans, and An Piessens. 2015. “Patterns of Leisure Experiences and Its Relation to Leisure Time Activities: A Study among Teenagers in the Brussels-Capital Region.” In . Brussels, Belgium: Kind & Samenleving.
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Berten H, Piessens A. Patterns of leisure experiences and its relation to leisure time activities: a study among teenagers in the Brussels-capital region. In Brussels, Belgium: Kind & Samenleving; 2015.
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H. Berten and A. Piessens, “Patterns of leisure experiences and its relation to leisure time activities: a study among teenagers in the Brussels-capital region,” presented at the European Sociological Association, Prague, Czech Republic, 2015.
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  abstract     = {{Most leisure research to date is embedded in a health discourse and focuses on patterns of leisure activities and its various multifaceted determinants or health benefits. In this study we make use of a lifeworld orientation to leisure, and focus attention on the different ways children experience and give purpose to the temporal and spatial aspects of leisure time. Using data from the Brussels Leisure Research Project, which collected data from a sample of Flemish students aged 11-18 years old (N = 2,448), we were able to distinguish three underlying dimensions of leisure experience (outdoor-orientation, boredom, and lack of time) and three clusters of youngsters with similar patterns on these underlying dimensions. We further discuss how this typology of leisure experience is linked to different choices of leisure activities on the one hand and socio-demographic background characteristics on the other hand.}},
  author       = {{Berten, Hans and Piessens, An}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  location     = {{Prague, Czech Republic}},
  publisher    = {{Kind & Samenleving}},
  title        = {{Patterns of leisure experiences and its relation to leisure time activities: a study among teenagers in the Brussels-capital region}},
  url          = {{http://programme.esa12thconference.eu/presentation/194}},
  year         = {{2015}},
}