低碳旅游城市：旅游城市转型发展的新标杆

随着中国经济转变发展方式的强力推进,中国优秀旅游城市面临着发展方式转型的挑战和重大契机。创建低碳旅游城市是城市宜居生态发展的高级阶段。创新城市低碳旅游公共服务导则,营造城市低碳旅游吸引物体系、发展城市低碳旅游设施、培育城市畅爽旅游体验环境、倡导城市低碳旅游消费方式是低碳旅游城市发展近期要关注的5个基本层面。为此,要规范发展、互动发展、示范发展,加快形成中国特色的低碳旅游城市发展格局。     

Dyadic Exploration of the Relationship of Leisure Satisfaction,Leisure Time,and Gender to Relationship Satisfaction

The stress suppressing model proposes that sufficient resources reduce stress. The stress exposure model suggests that certain factors expose individuals to more stress. The current study tested these two models by assessing the within-person lagging effect of leisure time on perceived severity of daily stressors. Analyzing eight-day diary data (N=2,022), we found that having more leisure time than usual on a day reduced perceived severity of daily stressors the next day and that the decrease in severity became larger with further increase in leisure time. Additionally, the effect is much stronger among busy individuals who usually had little leisure time. The findings demonstrated an accelerated suppressing effect that differed between-person, and the lagging effect affords stronger implication for causality than correlational analysis.     

贵阳市老龄休闲度假产业开发的SWOT分析

贵阳市发展老龄休闲度假产业的SWOT分析,即从老龄休闲度假产业开发的优势、劣势、机遇、威胁等方面对贵阳市老年旅游发展的资源条件、要素投入、度假产品、宣传力度、发展趋势等内容进行分析。发展贵阳市老龄休闲度假产业,应树立贵阳市老龄休闲度假旅游目的地意识,加快休闲度假名城建设;设计老龄旅游产品,确定旅游细分市场;整合资源,提高旅游产品的市场知名度和吸引力。     

高校闲暇德育价值初探

随着社会的发展,充裕的闲暇时间成为高校学生生活的重要组成部分。高校实施闲暇德育对整个社会、高校教育本身以及大学生个体素质的全面发展有着深远的价值影响。因此,高校应引导大学生树立正确的闲暇价值观,开展丰富多样的闲暇德育活动,让大学生在闲暇时间受到德育教育,帮助他们充分正确地利用闲暇时间,对个人和社会产生良性的影响。     

浅析现代经济发展与休闲体育

经济的发展为人民生活带来了巨大的便利,但同时也使得人们身体活动的机会越来越少。因此,身体也出现很多问题。在众多的休闲方式中,休闲体育最能促进人体健康。为解决人类健康问题,本文研究了不同人群的体育休闲方式方法,以期望对人们健康生活起到借鉴和指导作用。     

关于完善我国城市社区休闲健身服务的几点建议

在现代社会,社区的发展不仅是城市化的一个重要的衡量指标,同时也为满足城市居民精神需求和健康需求发挥着不可或缺的作用。因此,发展社区休闲健身运动可以有力地推动城市健身休闲运动的可持续发展。笔者将借鉴国外开展全民健身运动的相关做法,对我国城市社区休闲健身运动的发展提出一些建议。     

Culture,Self-Construal,and Leisure Motivations

The purpose of this study is to examine Canadian and Mainland Chinese students' leisure by investigating the role self-construal plays as an intervening variable between culture and motivation. Separate hierarchical multiple regressions are performed on each motivation with culture entered first followed by a block composed of four types of self-construal: vertical collectivism (i.e., dutiful), horizontal collectivism (i.e., cooperative), horizontal individualism (i.e., unique), and vertical individualism (i.e., achievement oriented). Results suggest that: (a) higher levels of horizontal collectivism are associated with higher levels of introjected reward (i.e., pride), identified (i.e., personally important), integrated (self-identity), and intrinsic (i.e., interesting and enjoyable) motivations; and (b) higher levels of horizontal individualism are associated with higher levels of introjected reward, identified, and integrated motivations.     

Progression,Stability, or Decline? Sociological Mechanisms Underlying Change in Specialization Among Birdwatchers

Using a panel of American birdwatchers collected in 1997 and 2002, we tested the extent to which birdwatchers progressed over a five-year period. The impact different career contingencies and life course events had on predicting change in birdwatchers' behavior, skill, and commitment was also examined. Findings indicated that although progression characterized some birdwatchers' participation, involvement by others was better characterized by stability or decline, which was true for each of the indicators used to measure specialization. Career contingencies and life course changes had only a moderate influence on predicting change in the specialization indicators over time. Support from family members and retirement were the best predictors of change in specialization.     

Cross-border leisure mobility styles in the Basque Eurocity

The constitution of Europe has fostered greater human and other mobilities across European borders, however it is not clear whether the border is still actually present in some places or inhibits cross-border mobilities. In this context, a leisure mobilities approach has been used to identify the mobility styles in the Basque Eurocity corridor – a cross-border area between Spain and France. The analysis focuses on leisure mobilities and identifies four different mobility styles based upon leisure orientation variables in terms of values, attitudes and lifestyles; nationality; and socio-demographic characteristics: (1) time-conscious workers, (2) French shoppers, (3) mobile youth and (4) older and less mobile. The results indicate that different leisure orientations and participation levels are highly significant in the constitution of mobility styles, which are usually correlated only with national demographic data. Furthermore, it was identified that a higher identification of mobility constraints was not related to lower levels of participation. Instead, the groups with higher mobility and participation rates raised more awareness of the constraints related to transport and information. Finally, intrapersonal constraints such as age and lack of health showed a greater impact on cross-border mobility, while, unexpectedly, a higher identification of cultural and linguistic constraints was not perceived by participants.     

Body image as a leisure constraint: Examining the experience of aerobic exercise classes for young women

Abstract

Previous research has shown that women, and especially young women, in this culture experience pressure to be thin. Although considerable research has been directed toward the investigation of body image and its relationship to psychological health and self‐image, the impact of body image on leisure behavior has not been adequately addressed, nor has body image received much attention as a potential leisure constraint. The purpose of this study was to investigate ways in which body image might function as a constraint to young women's participation in aerobic exercise classes. The study used both quantitative and qualitative methods, including a survey of 190 women undergraduate students and in‐depth interviews with a sub‐sample of 11 students. The qualitative data are the main focus of this analysis. The data indicated that body image did not seem to prevent participation or constrain levels of participation in aerobics. Nevertheless, body image concerns were shown to constrain the enjoyment of aerobics as a leisure activity, and this reduction of enjoyment was related to the clothing worn for aerobics and to competition over appearance and body weight among participants. The findings also showed that body image functioned as a constraint into participation in that body‐image‐related concerns were a major motivating factor exerting pressure on young women to participate in aerobics. In sum, the study suggested that body image can constrain leisure in some situations, although it is not a constraint in the traditional sense of preventing participation. The implications of these findings for the conceptualization of leisure constraints were discussed. Furthermore, some practical implications for the provision of aerobics classes were provided.