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- Title
- The importance of leisure and the psychological mechanisms involved in living a good life: a content analysis of best-possible-selves texts
- Author/Creator
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Loveday, Paula M |
Lovell, G |
Jones, C M
- Description
- This paper explored the psychological mechanisms by which leisure enhances well-being by using sentence-by-sentence coding of the best-possible-selves text produced by 112 participants. Of the 1097 sentences, 41% were coded as leisure indicating that leisure is an important component of optimal well-being. The data showed that Australians have significantly less leisure in their daily lives than our sample desired; older and wealthier individuals placed a greater emphasis on leisure but there were no significant differences based on gender. Application of the Detachment-Recovery, Autonomy, Mastery, Meaning, Affiliation (DRAMMA) framework showed the following allocation of sentences to psychological mechanisms: Detachment-Recovery-21%, Autonomy-23%, Mastery-12%, Meaning-11% and Affiliation-33%. In their ideal future, participants imagined that they have the time and money to do what they want, particularly, to travel. We showed leisure is not solely associated with ‘having fun’; 59% of participants wanted to use their leisure time to learn, improve, or contribute to society. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
- Relation
- Journal of Positive Psychology / Vol. 13, No. 1, pp.18-28
- Relation
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2017.1374441
- Year
- 2018
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Subject
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FoR 1701 (Psychology) |
FoR 1503 (Business and Management) |
FoR 2004 (Linguistics) |
affiliation |
autonomy |
best possible self |
detachment-recovery |
leisure |
mastery |
meaning |
social interaction |
well-being |
writing
- Collection(s)
- Research Publications
- Resource Type
- Journal Article
- Identifier
- ISSN: 1743-9760
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