Darbo problema: Laisvalaikis nuolat besikeičiantis, vienas iš visuomenės ekonominio ir socialinio vystymo rodiklių. Visos bendros laisvalaikio problemos yra neišvengiamai susijusios su visuomenės vystymosi tendencijomis, urbanizacija, mokslo ir technikos pasiekimais. Šiuolaikiniame technologijų amžiuje fizinis aktyvumas, studentų tarpe ženkliai mažėja. Aktyvias laisvalaikio praleidimo formas vis dažniau pakeičia pasyvios: kompiuteris, televizija, naujos susisiekimo priemonės. Nauji mokslo ir technikos laimėjimai pasiekė ir studentus gyvenančius provincijoje, todėl aktyvus laisvalaikis taip pat sumažėjo, o fizinės ypatybės susijusios su judėjimo galimybėmis nėra tokios geros. Mažėjant aktyviam laiko leidimui, mažėja ir fizinis pajėgumas. Darbo tikslas - apibūdinti laisvalaikio praleidimo ypatumus Sportinės rekreacijos ir turizmo programos studentų tarpe. Uždaviniai: 1. Apibūdinti pagrindines laiko struktūras, laisvalaikio sampratą, laisvalaikio sąsajas su rekreacija. 2. Atskleisti laisvalaikio praleidimo ypatumus ir būdus studentų tarpe. 3. Ištirti Lietuvos sporto universiteto Sportinės rekreacijos ir turizmo programos studentų laisvalaikio praleidimo ypatumus. Darbo objektas: Sportinės rekreacijos ir turizmo programos studentų laisvalaikis. Tyrimo metodai: Mokslinės literatūros analizė, anketinė apklausa, aprašomoji statinė analizė. Pagrindinės išvados: Remiantis tyrimo duomenimis, galima daryti išvadą, kad Lietuvos sporto universiteto, Sportinės reakreacijos ir turizmo... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Job objective – The description of leisure features of occupation programs of sport recreation and tourism among students. Tasks: 1. To describe the main structures of time, the conception of leisure time and the links of leisure with recreation. 2. To reveal features of spending leisure time among students. 3. To survey the features of spending leisure of students of sport recreation and tourism program of Lithuanian sport university. Job object: Leisure of the students of sport recreation and tourism. Survey methods: literary analysis, analysis of data collection, questionnaire and descriptive statistics. According to the research, it can be concluded that the Lithuanian University of Sport, Sport recreation and tourism specialty students understands leisure as time, which can be used for yourself or as recreation - time for spiritual regeneration and relaxation. It was found that the majority of the surveyed students have enough free time, appointed for leisure and most of the time only for themselves. The main factors influencing students' leisure activities, namely: personal interests and financial / economic situation. It can be concluded that the students' desires for leisure activities in a variety of prevents to choose limited financial resources, because the majority of respondents give too little money for productive leisure. The analysis of Lithuanian University of Sport, Sport recreation and tourism of students leisure activities, can be said that the majority... [to full text]

The purpose of this study is to explore active after-school teacher’s perceptions of the concept of meaningful leisure time. The purpose of the study is also to investigate if the interpretations of meaningful leisure time affect the perception of their work roles and after-school teacher’s actual work in a leisure activity. The study also provides an insight into how afterschool teachers perceive their roles in general. The study is based on qualitative interviews on five after-school teachers from four different schools in a municipality in Sweden. The results of the study show that the respondents interpret the concept of meaningful leisure-time in both similar and different ways. A common perception among the respondents is that meaningful leisure-time activities is important for social and emotional development and learning. The children can together with the after-school teachers create meaningfulness that may be considered as a meaningful leisure time. The study also shows that the respondents understanding of meaningful leisure time affect the perception of their work roles and vice versa.Keywords: Meaningful leisure time, recreation, after-school teacher, perceptions of the concept of meaningful leisure time.

The emergence of astrocasting on the Internet offered an opportunity to study the creation of a Social Media site, and determine the influence of the participants’ perception of this leisure activity and their motivation for it. The Night Skies Network was examined under a Social Media theoretical framework. The motivation for astrocasting was studied using the Self-Determination Theory of Motivation, and its perception as a leisure activity using the Serious Leisure Perspective. The methodology used included a focus group that provided a qualitative perspective, and an on-line questionnaire using the Serious Leisure Inventory and Measure and the Leisure Motivation Scale for quantitative data. The results showed that the Night Skies Network did meet the requirements for a Social Media site, that the participants considered astrocasting as a serious leisure activity, and that they were intrinsically motivated towards it, with a strong emphasis on the Intrinsic Motivation to Know.

With the aging of our population and the higher risk of chronic illness and disability with age, more and more family members may be faced with the experience of having a relative transition into a long-term care (LTC) home. This reality necessitates greater understanding of family care partner needs to ensure wellness throughout their caring career. Using participatory action research, notions of wellness were explored for family partners in care with relatives residing in LTC homes. Using two LTC homes from a privately owned company called Specialty Care, ten family members were interviewed, followed by one focus group at each of the two LTC homes. Three major themes were revealed, each with several sub themes: (1) understanding wellness amidst challenges to keep a sense of wellness in life; (2) self-appraisal: becoming aware of personal beliefs and perceptions that influence wellness; and (3) assessing LTC homes and their influence on the experience of wellness. We not only revealed more about wellness and how it is experienced in the caring context, we also discovered leisure’s role in maintaining wellness and how embedded leisure’s influence is on the various aspects of wellness that family partners in care experience. Relationship-centred care is a framework we used to guide this study. It highlights the importance of family member needs, along with the needs of the residents and staff. With our enhanced understanding of family care partner needs, recommendations were made to the Specialty Care communities so they can work together to ensure optimal wellness is maintained for all parties, including family partners in care.

This thesis investigates ego-involvement, a measure focused around the customer satisfaction and service quality assessement concept. It questions whether or not it has the potential to be a better predictor of leisure participation and leisure satisfaction than the measures of service quality that dominate leisure service assessment at present.

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The master thesis deals with educational approaches and attitudes to social networking sites in leisure education in Czech Budweis. The theoretical background describes current social networking sites and benefits for their users. Next there are descriptions of puberty years, of leisure time as a time when social networking sites are used the most and of leisure education. The thesis includes comparison of Czech and Dutch approaches to media education in their educational systems. The research part includes opinions of leaders working in leisure education in Czech Budweis about an educational influencing of using of social networking sites and their experiences. Into research were joined 9 schools and school institutions for leisure education from Czech Budweis. The first part of the respondents do not devote to education of using of social networking sites. The second half of the respondents is trying to educate children to be conscious about risks, to understand to rules of social networking sites. Leaders talk with the children about a content which the children see on their accounts. But the leader´s influence causes just that the children know theoretical informations. So it is important to find a way how to teach children in a way that leader´s educational approaches make them behave differently and make them know about other possibilities of using social networking sites.

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This thesis deals with the recreational function of free time for students of the Faculty of Theology of the University of South Bohemia. The thesis is an analysis of the literature on the matter, stating kinds of recreation and brief historical overview in the context of free time. It is an analysis of recreation and active lifestyles including previous research studies. The central section is defined by the concept and function of free time period described in university education, recreational activities and leisure time of students, stating research studies. One whole chapter in the end of the theoretical part is focused on student from Faculty of Theology of the University of South Bohemia with the analysis of gender problem and gender statistics at the University of South Bohemia. The main goal of the research is to determine with the method of non-standardized questionnaire, how students the Faculty of Theology of the University of South Bohemiao use leisure time for recreation, pertinently to find proposals to improve the recreational function of free time. The data obtained from non-standardized questionnaire are compared by gender, kind of study and individual fields of study the Faculty of Theology of the University of South Bohemia, the main goal is to make an evaluation and recommendations for practice.

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