218 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Although it is now well established that unemployment is detrimental to health and well being, most of us assume that a well structured, rewarding leisure activity would be preferable to paid work. John Haworth challenges these assumptions and shows that the very constriction of work, like having to perform a task we wouldn't otherwise choose, are often the most rewarding in the end. Work,... Read more
List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, Preface, 1. Introduction, 2. Categories of psychological experience and well-being, 3. Research into categories of psychological experience and well-being, 4. Principal environmental influences and mental health, 5. Research into principal environmental influences and mental health, 6. Enjoyment and well-being, 7. Embodiment and quality of life, 8. Serious leisure and well-being, 9. A psychological analysis of leisure and health, 10. Work and leisure in young people’s lives, 11. Activity and ageing: challenge in retirement, 12. Work and leisure futures: trends and scenarios, Appendices, Index
Biography
John T Haworth
