The Serious Leisure Perspective and the Experience of Leisure

Veal, AJ

The Serious Leisure Perspective and the Experience of Leisure

Veal, AJ

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Citation:: Leisure Sciences, 2017, 39 (3), pp. 205 - 223
Issue Date:: 2017-05-04

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dc.contributor.author	Veal, AJ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1082-0080	en_US
dc.date.available	2020-05-25T19:10:51Z
dc.date.issued	2017-05-04	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Leisure Sciences, 2017, 39 (3), pp. 205 - 223	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0149-0400	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/45585
dc.description.abstract	© 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The serious leisure perspective (SLP), which divides leisure activities into three distinct forms (serious, casual, and project-based), has been developed by Robert Stebbins over the last 40 years. This article evaluates the perspective as theory and as a typology. The theory associated with the SLP concerning social worlds, identification, and optimal leisure lifestyles is found to be generally untested because it has been developed in relation to the serious leisure form only. The validity of the typology is questioned on the grounds that “seriousness” is a continuum, rather than discrete categories, and that most leisure activities can be engaged in with varying degrees of seriousness. It is proposed that the SLP be replaced by a more flexible, open research approach, the Leisure Experience Perspective, which consolidates features of the SLP and other research traditions and theoretical perspectives.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Leisure Sciences	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/01490400.2016.1189367	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Sport, Leisure & Tourism	en_US
dc.title	The Serious Leisure Perspective and the Experience of Leisure	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	3	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	39	en_US
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utslib.for	1506 Tourism	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Business/Management Discipline
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.issue	3	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	39	en_US

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© 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The serious leisure perspective (SLP), which divides leisure activities into three distinct forms (serious, casual, and project-based), has been developed by Robert Stebbins over the last 40 years. This article evaluates the perspective as theory and as a typology. The theory associated with the SLP concerning social worlds, identification, and optimal leisure lifestyles is found to be generally untested because it has been developed in relation to the serious leisure form only. The validity of the typology is questioned on the grounds that “seriousness” is a continuum, rather than discrete categories, and that most leisure activities can be engaged in with varying degrees of seriousness. It is proposed that the SLP be replaced by a more flexible, open research approach, the Leisure Experience Perspective, which consolidates features of the SLP and other research traditions and theoretical perspectives.

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