Abstract
This study identified leisure constraints, constraints negotiation strategies, and their relative frequencies among 114 high school students from one under-resourced area of South Africa. Through focus group discussions, participants identified intrapersonal, interpersonal, structural, and sociocultural constraints to leisure, suggesting some degree of universality in this previously documented typology. Intrapersonal constraints were mentioned most often. Whereas participants readily identified ways to overcome interpersonal and structural constraints, strategies for overcoming intrapersonal and sociocultural constraints were not mentioned frequently, suggesting a potential need to help adolescents identify and employ these types of strategies.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 434-452 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Leisure Sciences |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Received 5 May 2009; accepted 4 May 2010. This research was funded by NIH Grants R01 DA01749 and T32 DA017629-01A1. The authors wish to acknowledge Xavier September and Inshaaf Evans for their assistance in scheduling focus groups and interviews, recruiting participants, recording focus groups, and checking transcripts. Address correspondence to Lori-Ann Palen, Risk Behavior and Family Research, RTI International, 3040 Cornwallis Road, PO Box 12194, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194. E-mail: lpalen@rti.org
Keywords
- Adolescents
- Leisure constraint negotiation
- Leisure constraints
- South Africa
