Expanding, reducing, concentrating and diffusing: Post retirement leisure behavior and life satisfaction

Leisure Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 91-111

  Nimrod, Galit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Activity; Continuity; Innovation; Life satisfaction; Retirement

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33845325358     PISSN: 01490400     EISSN: 15210588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490400600983446     Document Type: Article

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