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Parental Influences Towards Chinese Children’S Physical Activity Participation, Patrick, W. C. Lau, Beeto W. C. Leung
Parental Influences Towards Chinese Children’S Physical Activity Participation, Patrick, W. C. Lau, Beeto W. C. Leung
Patrick W.C. Lau
This study attempted to investigate a link between parents’ physical activity and their children’s physical activity participation. Psychological factors of both parents and children were examined to determine how parental factors affected children’s corresponding constructs. Seven hundred and forty-eight children (430 girls, 318 boys) and their parents were examined. The questionnaire was designed in two parts, one for the parent and one for the children. Correlations and path analysis were conducted. Results suggested that parental experiences and attitudes towards physical activity were significantly but weakly associated with children’s physical activity involvement. In the final model, child-perceived family environment and gender …
The Serious Leisure Frontier In Library And Informtion Science: Hobby Domains, Jenna Hartel
The Serious Leisure Frontier In Library And Informtion Science: Hobby Domains, Jenna Hartel
Jenna Hartel
Research on information behavior rarely focuses on leisure realms while favoring scholarly and professional contexts as subjects. Such is the case despite compelling evidence of the desirability and profundity of leisure in human life. This article introduces one popular form of leisure, hobbies, a potentially provocative topic for ISB scholarship. To facilitate research on information within hobbies, the article discusses two conceptual devices. Serious leisure (Stebbins, 1982) describes essential characteristics of leisure, establishes that some types are information-rich, and provides a framework to study leisure systematically. The collectivist theory of domain analysis (Hjørland and Albrechtsen, 1995) orients research to the …