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The diverse worlds of unemployed adults : consequences for leisure, lifestyle, and well-being / Mark E. Havitz, Peter A. Morden, Diane M. Samdahl.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004Description: xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0889204640
  • 9780889204645
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.9069409713 22
LOC classification:
  • HD5708.2.O6 H38 2004
Contents:
Recruitment and Remuneration of Unemployed Participants -- Questionnaires, Data Collection, and Data Entry -- Representativeness of the Sample -- Talking about Unemployment: Participant Classification and Descriptions of Daily Life -- Planners -- Vacationers -- Connectors -- Marginalized People -- Summary of the Participant Categorization Scheme -- Alternative Perspectives on Unemployment: Confirmation and Disconfirmation of Daily Life Patterns Using Experiential Sampling and Mail-Back Survey Data -- Television Viewing -- Perceptions of Leisure and Non-Leisure -- Satisfaction with Daily Planning -- Highlight of the Day: Content-Analysis of Open-Ended ESM Comments -- Respondents' Self-Esteem and Life Satisfaction -- Job Importance, Career Socialization, Leisure Boredom, Self-Definition through Leisure, and Perceived Freedom in Leisure -- Perceived Constraint on Favourite Leisure and Recreation Activities -- Integrating the Present Study with the Literature -- Loss of Latent Functions or Categories of Experience -- Activity During Unemployment -- Perceptions of Unemployment Agencies and Other Social Services -- Interacting with Human Resources Development Canada -- Other Governmental and Community Resources -- Leisure Services Planning and Policy -- Local Government: Standard Practice -- Market Segmentation -- The Marketing Mix and Municipal Action -- Participant Categorization: Implications for Local Service Providers -- Provincial or Territorial, and Federal Action --
1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 3. Talking about unemployment : participant classification and descriptions of daily life -- 4. Alternative perspectives on unemployment : confirmation and disconfirmation of daily life patterns using experiential sampling and mail-back survey data -- 5. Integrating the present study with the literature -- 6. Perceptions of unemployment agencies and other social services -- 7. Leisure services planning and policy -- 8. Summary, conclusion, and future directions.
Review: "The relationship between leisure and employment has not received the attention it merits, especially in North America. Because research on leisure, and unemployment must cross over areas of study, as well as theoretical perspectives. It can often seem conflicting and inconclusive. Yet the need for an understanding of that relationship remains. This book addresses that need." "The authors also pinpoint changes in public policy and social service agency management at local, provincial, and federal levels that will better serve unemployed people and their dependents, and enable them to use leisure activities to improve their lives."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Recruitment and Remuneration of Unemployed Participants -- Questionnaires, Data Collection, and Data Entry -- Representativeness of the Sample -- Talking about Unemployment: Participant Classification and Descriptions of Daily Life -- Planners -- Vacationers -- Connectors -- Marginalized People -- Summary of the Participant Categorization Scheme -- Alternative Perspectives on Unemployment: Confirmation and Disconfirmation of Daily Life Patterns Using Experiential Sampling and Mail-Back Survey Data -- Television Viewing -- Perceptions of Leisure and Non-Leisure -- Satisfaction with Daily Planning -- Highlight of the Day: Content-Analysis of Open-Ended ESM Comments -- Respondents' Self-Esteem and Life Satisfaction -- Job Importance, Career Socialization, Leisure Boredom, Self-Definition through Leisure, and Perceived Freedom in Leisure -- Perceived Constraint on Favourite Leisure and Recreation Activities -- Integrating the Present Study with the Literature -- Loss of Latent Functions or Categories of Experience -- Activity During Unemployment -- Perceptions of Unemployment Agencies and Other Social Services -- Interacting with Human Resources Development Canada -- Other Governmental and Community Resources -- Leisure Services Planning and Policy -- Local Government: Standard Practice -- Market Segmentation -- The Marketing Mix and Municipal Action -- Participant Categorization: Implications for Local Service Providers -- Provincial or Territorial, and Federal Action --

1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 3. Talking about unemployment : participant classification and descriptions of daily life -- 4. Alternative perspectives on unemployment : confirmation and disconfirmation of daily life patterns using experiential sampling and mail-back survey data -- 5. Integrating the present study with the literature -- 6. Perceptions of unemployment agencies and other social services -- 7. Leisure services planning and policy -- 8. Summary, conclusion, and future directions.

"The relationship between leisure and employment has not received the attention it merits, especially in North America. Because research on leisure, and unemployment must cross over areas of study, as well as theoretical perspectives. It can often seem conflicting and inconclusive. Yet the need for an understanding of that relationship remains. This book addresses that need." "The authors also pinpoint changes in public policy and social service agency management at local, provincial, and federal levels that will better serve unemployed people and their dependents, and enable them to use leisure activities to improve their lives."--BOOK JACKET.

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