Ebook: Positive leisure science: from subjective experience to social contexts

Leisure and positive living. Research and Theory on Positiveness in the Social Sciences: The Central Role of Leisure / Robert A. Stebbins -- Redeeming Leisure in Later Life / Douglas A. Kleiber -- Leisure, growth and development. Adolescent Leisure from a Developmental and Prevention Perspective / Linda L. Caldwell, Monique Faulk -- Leisure Experience and Positive Identity Development in Adolescents / Teresa Freire -- Positive Leisure Science: Leisure in Family Contexts / Ramon B. Zabriskie, Tess Kay -- Leisure, Optimal Experience, and Psychological Selection: Cultural and Developmental Perspectives / Marta Bassi, Antonella Delle Fave -- Leisure, well-being and quality of life. Facilitating Change Through Leisure: The Leisure and Well-Being Model of Therapeutic Recreation Practice / Colleen D. Hood, Cynthia P. Carruthers -- Flow and Leisure / Kim Perkins, Jeanne Nakamura -- Leisure Time, Physical Activity, and Health / Jorge Mota, Mauro Barros, José Carlos Ribeiro, Maria Paula Santos -- Bringing Leisure in: The Benefits and Importance of Leisure to Non-resident Fatherhood and Parent-Child Contact / John M. Jenkins -- Happiness Through Leisure / Jeroen Nawijn, Ruut Veenhoven -- Leisure and the pursuit of a Positive Leisure Science (PLS). Afterthoughts on Leisure and Future Research Directions / Teresa Freire, Linda L. Caldwell.;This book extends positive psychology by embedding leisure into the positive science field, following a new paradigm and aggregating various domains and fields. Positive science can be applied to the field of leisure and, in turn, leisure can serve as an arena to study some of the most important optimal functioning variables. The book presents knowledge on a diverse range of topics about optimizing socio-cognitive processes and behaviors, places and contexts, societies and cultures through leisure. These topics are unified by an underlying continuum that extends from individuals and subjective experiences to social worlds. The contributions highlight components of everyday life, showing that subjective experience and life trajectories are structured and social goals and life purposes are defined and achieved within interactions between individuals and their lived contexts and environments in daily life.