Leisure Constraints in Six Chinese Cities |
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| Authors: | Erwei Dong Garry Chick |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Health, Physical Education and Leisure Studies , University of South Alabama , Mobile , AL , USA;2. Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Management , Penn State University , University Park , PA , USA |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this study is to describe leisure constraints as perceived by residents of the Chinese cities Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Chengdu, and Shenzhen. Rather than relying on lists of leisure constraints developed in other contexts, we used the common ethnographic technique of free listing, which allows informants to indicate what they perceive as constraints on their leisure. A second sample of informants rated the importance of 37 constraints determined through the free listing procedure. Constraints in these cities can be categorized, based on their perceived importance, into eight distinct types. These relate to several demographic and sociographic variables. |
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| Keywords: | China ethnography leisure constraints |
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