Serious and Casual Leisure Flashcards

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Serious leisure definition

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The “systematic pursuit of an activity that participants
find so substantial and interesting that they embark on a ‘‘career’ centered on acquiring special skills, knowledge and experience”

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Characteristics of Serious Leisure

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Need to persevere over time, put in effort to progress
2. Availability of a leisure career*
3. Realization of personal benefits
4. Unique ethos (spirit/culture) and social world, identity

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Leisure Career Definition

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A long-term process of “acquiring and expressing a
combination of special skills, knowledge, and experience”
≠ “going pro”

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Hobbyist

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Interested in acquiring knowledge or skill for their own sake;
no true professional counter part
Example: Collecters

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Amateur

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Activities linked to professional counterparts
Pros are identified in economic rather than identity terms

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Volunteer

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Activity for the benefit of others
2. No/token pay (intrinsic motivation)
3. Can be highly skilled

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Occupation devotee

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Those for whom work and leisure blur together
 Livelihood comes from self-enhancing form of work
 Shares motivational and actualization potential with leisure

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What is the value of serious leisure

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Experiencing short-term stress may lead to increased long-term happiness
Fulfills a range of psychological needs
 Competence
 Connection
 Autonomy

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Casual Leisure Definition

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Pleasurable activity requiring little/no skill to enjoy

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Hedonic definition

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We do it because it gives us pleasure, sensory stimulation
 Short lived in duration, reward
 No leisure career

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Why is casual leisure important

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Provides social outlet
 Time to relax and recharge

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Project Based Leisure

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Short-term, reasonably complicated, occasional or one-shot free-
time undertaking
1. Requires planning, effort, skill, or knowledge (like serious leisure)
2. BUT never develops into a leisure career (like casual leisure

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