Leisure involvement revisited: Drive properties and paradoxes

Journal of Leisure Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 122-149

  Havitz, Mark E ^a   Dimanche, Frédéric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Leisure involvement; Methodology; Propositions; Social judgement theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000556273     PISSN: 00222216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222216.1999.11949854     Document Type: Article

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