introduction: industrial lifestyle considered as one of the main problems of humanity, because it result in reduced mobility and activities of people. leisure time and the ways which is spent is a novel concepts which had been found its true meaning in accordance with rising  various technologies and industrialization of societies. nowedays, recreational sports with sports-related leisure time ...

Sedentary behavior is a modifiable determinant of health. Little is known about the ways in which contextual factors may influence this behavior. The objectives of this study were to: (1) examine the association between community belonging and adult sedentary behavior during leisure; (2) determine if this association was explained by perceived health. Data were derived from the 2010 Canadian Co...

The purpose of this study is to determine the youth generation leisure time as an important factor in reducing their inclination toward drug use in North Khorasan Province, by comparing drug addicted youth in addiction treatment centers of Social Welfare Organization with other non-addicted youth. This was a survey study and a questionnaire was used for data collection. The data was analyzed by...

The purpose of this study was to establish if injuries sustained during a player’s career in baseball had consequences later in life following retirement from participation. Seventy-five retired Australian baseball players (mean age 55.8 ±11.4 years) completed a survey to establish the long-term consequences of major (i.e. those resulting in five or more consecutive weeks of training or playing...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to investigate the associations between physical fitness, leisure physical activity, and coronary risk factors. DESIGN This was a cross sectional study of a random sample of men and women, following a population survey. SETTING The municipality of Tromsø, Norway in 1986-1987. PARTICIPANTS All men born 1925-1966 and all women born 1930-1966 were invited to the s...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a review and an interpretive framework for examining the ethic of care as it offers possibilities and constraints for women's leisure. The explanatory implications of the ethic of care are useful in further understanding antecedent and intervening constraints to leisure as well as understanding the empowering possibilities of leisure. The paper addresses ...