Discretionary Time Commitment: Effects on Leisure Choice and Lifestyle
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2012.754n2003Keywords:
Time commitment, leisure, serious leisure, casual leisure, project-based leisureAbstract
This paper introduces and elaborates the concept of discretionary time commitment, defined as un-coerced, allocation of a certain number of minutes, hours, days, or other measure of time that a person devotes, or would like to devote, to carrying out an activity. Discretionary time commitment finds expression in leisure and the agreeable sides of work (which, in effect, are experienced as leisure). The kinds of time commitments people make help shape their work and leisure lifestyles, thus constituting part of the patterning of those lifestyles. In leisure the nature of such commitments varies substantially across its three forms: serious, casual, and project-based leisure. In the field of leisure studies “time use” is generally treated of as an objective idea. Unlike the term “discretionary time commitment,” it commonly connotes no subjective sense of personal agency or intentionality (to allocate time, set aside time, etc.).
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