Blowing open the serious leisure-casual leisure dichotomy: What's in there?

Leisure Sciences

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 162-179

  Shen, Xiangyou Sharon ^a   Yarnal, Careen ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Casual leisure; Continuum; Dichotomy; Multidimensional; Re conceptualize; Reevaluate; Serious leisure

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; SOCIALISM;

EID: 77949337578     PISSN: 01490400     EISSN: 15210588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490400903547179     Document Type: Article

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