Dyadic Exploration of the Relationship of Leisure Satisfaction,Leisure Time,and Gender to Relationship Satisfaction |
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Authors: | Xinyi Lisa Qian Careen M. Yarnal David M. Almeida |
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Affiliation: | 1. Tourism Center University of Minnesota–Twin Cities , St. Paul , MN , USA;2. Department of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management , The Pennsylvania State University , University Park , PA , USA;3. Department of Human Development and Family Studies , The Pennsylvania State University , University Park , PA , USA |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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Keywords: | leisure time stress exposure stress severity stress suppressing within-person lagging effect |
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