Leisure Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Leisure Sciences is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Poetry as Gift to Articulate Oppression Across Transdisciplinary Health Scholarship27
Visitor Dynamics under Disturbance: Exploring the Interplay of Air Quality, Wildfires, and U.S. National Park Visitation Patterns20
Spatial Pattern Identification of Urban Leisure Spaces Based on Geo-Big Data and GIS Technology—A Case of Qingdao, China19
"É nossa, é Do Brasil Inteiro” (It’s Ours, It’s for the Whole of Brazil”): Football, The Yellow Shirt, National Politics, and Conjunctural Contestation18
Parental Perceived Safety Using PPGIS and Photo Survey across Urban Parks in Cairo, Egypt18
Creative Bricks, Endless Possibilities: Using Lego ® Serious Play ® (LSP) to Manage Player Transition in Women’s Semi-Elite Associ18
Resistance and Mothers’ Experiences in Postnatal Team Sport: “Didn’t You Just Have a Kid?”18
Understanding the Constraints Shaping Women’s Intentions to Stop Playing Community Sport17
Motives of the Philanthropic Creators of England’s Pioneering Public Parks in the Mid-Nineteenth Century16
Why Would You Run around Chasing a Ball? Embodied and Temporal Emotions during Leisure Time Physical Activity16
Nexus of Campers’ Experiences: Family Support and Product Involvement Influence Place Dependence, Mediated by Serious Leisure and Co-Production15
Leisure Constraints and Subjective Well-Being: The Case of Recreational Sport Participants15
Parting Thoughts XX: Cynicism and Leisure14
Special Forces-Style Tourism among Chinese Generation Z: Motivations and Experiences through the Lens of Authenticity Theory14
Developing and Validating a Scale to Measure Tourists’ Personality Change after Transformative Travel Experiences14
Customer Visual Perception of Indoor Environments: Computer Vision Analysis of Social Media Photos of Cafés in China13
“Me” vs. “We”: Value-Oriented Fee Increase Justification Messaging in the Context of Resource-Intensive Public Recreation Facilities13
Leisure and the Anthropocene—Special Issue Introduction13
Sacrifice for Love: The Effects of Compromise on Individual Emotional Benefits in Romantic Tourism12
Exploring Perceptions of Prototypical Leadership and Gender Encoding Bias among Aspiring Female Athletes12
Leisure Activities are Associated with Self-Efficacy in Childhood and Adolescence12
Police Harassment and Park Use by a Racially Marginalized Group: A Case Study of a Puerto Rican Community in Massachusetts12
Men’s Polluted Leisure in the Anthropocene: Place Attachment and Well-Being in an Industrial Coastal Setting11
Parting Thoughts XXX: My Struggle With Disney and Cognitive Dissonance10
Cybersex as Leisure: Socio-Demographic and Socio-Psychological Profiling of the (Non)Participants in Online Sexual Activities10
Introduction to the Special Issue, “The Fraying of Society”10
Parting Thoughts XIII10
Enjoying the Night’s Splendor: Exploring the Effect of Urban Residents’ Nighttime Leisure Involvement on Subjective Well-Being: Symmetric and Asymmetric Analysis10
Spatial Agglomeration Mining of Urban Recreational Amenities: the Case of the Greater Bay Area in China10
“More Than Just a Vehicle for Getting Drunk”: Class, (Serious) Leisure and the Discerning ‘No and Low’ Craft Beer Drinker10
Commodified Death as the Ultimate Outcome of Social Inequalities: An Analysis of the Squid Game Discourse9
The ‘Home’ Re-Framed: Interrupting Key Assumptions of the Home in Leisure Studies9
Feeling Lucky and Novelty Seeking during Vacation: The Mediating Role of Time Orientation9
Parting Thoughts XXXIII: Disney Genie + as a Catalyst of Flow9
Socially-Driven or Performance-Driven Parkour Practice: A Comparative Analysis in Habits, Motivation and Perceived Performance Factors9
Escapism or Integration? Family Constellations Reflecting on the Leisure-Time Physical Activity of Adults8
Understanding Conspicuous Consumption in Picnics: A Social Comparison Framework8
Leisure Programs for Improving Middle-Aged and Older adults’ Depression and Quality of Life: A Meta-Analysis8
Leisure Ex Machina: The Leisure Lives of Digital Minds8
Parting Thoughts XXI: Sense of Place and the Search for Leisure8
Social Networking Based Leisure as Coping During Infertility: An Auto-Netnography8
Interpersonal Playfulness as a Protective Factor Against Loneliness and Boredom in Single People Living Alone during the COVID-19 Lockdown8
The Interconnections of Trauma, Healing, Health, and Leisure: Special Issue of Leisure Sciences7
Parting Thoughts IX7
The Impact of Avalanche Education on Risk Perception, Confidence, and Decision-Making among Backcountry Skiers7
Predicting Behavioral Intentions of Active Sport Tourists in a Non-traditional Event: The Case of Obstacle Course Runners in Spain7
Authentic Experiences and Support for Sustainable Development: Applications at Two Cultural Tourism Destinations in Taiwan7
Natural Sounds vs. Favorite Music: Which Is the More Restorative Indoor Leisure Activity When Listened to Repeatedly?7
Esport Social Capital: An Avenue to Develop Social Connection and Subjective Wellbeing7
The Structural Control of Labor and Leisure of Working Fathers in Taiwan: A Dialectical View on the Realm of Freedom7
Multiple Motives for Adventure Sport Revisited: A Multi-Activity Investigation7
Shifting Our Perspective of the Meaning of a “Lost Summer”7
Parting Thoughts XLVIII: “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other”6
Parting Thoughts XI: Be Idle, That Is All6
“I Felt Warm, Familiar and Comfortable”: A Case Study of Western Exchange Students Seek Nostalgic Leisure Experiences in South Korea6
Understanding Social Media Affinity Groups Supporting Relevance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Outdoors Through a Classification System6
The Dominance of Fandom: An Analysis of How Gender and Fandom Impact Live and Non-Live Sport Event Consumption Behaviours6
Parting Thoughts XIV: Burnout6
A Cross-Cultural Research on Natural Tourists’ Behavioral Intentions6
An Enabling Approach to Sustainability Transformations in Tourism6
The Concept of Leisure among Chinese Older Adults: A Graphic-Elicited Approach6
Labor, Depletion, and Disconnection: Leisure as Restoration for Uniformed Public Safety Personnel5
Negotiating Masculinities in the Outdoors: Men’s Performances of Gender in Outdoor Adventure Activities5
Associations Between Biodiversity, Forest Characteristics, Distance to Blue Space and Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity—Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study5
Physical Activity and Subjective Well-Being: A Social Stratification Perspective5
Investigating the Prevalence and Distribution of Sport Fandom5
Work-to-Leisure Conflict, Recovery Experience, and Well-Being: A Moderated-Mediation Model5
Parting Thoughts XXIII: Life without Worry5
Mental Illness as a Valued Identity: How a Leisure Initiative Promoting Connection and Understanding Sets the Stage for Inclusion5
Campfire Smoke and the Anthropocene5
Land-Based Radical Healing with Black Ecologies and Critical Native Studies5
The Determinants of Continuance Intention toward Activity-Based Events Using a Virtual Experience Platform (VEP)5
Examining Relationships among Festival Satisfaction, Place Attachment, Emotional Experience, and Destination Loyalty5
Correction4
Racial Residential Segregation and Leisure-Time Physical Activity Prevalence in Chicago, IL4
Turkish Cooks’ Leisure Experiences Shape Their Work Life Through Psychological Resilience: A Broaden-and-Build Theory Perspective4
Conformity and Delinquency: Surveillance, Sport, and Youth in the Charm City4
Surveillance, Capitalism, Leisure, and Data: Being Watched, Giving, Becoming4
Parting Thoughts XXIV: Rejection4
Relationships of Leisure Social Support and Flow with Loneliness in International Students in Taiwan: Implications during the COVID-19 Pandemic4
Understanding Sex as Leisure Among Transgender Men Using Foucauldian Theorization: Heterotopia, Technologies of Self, and Inversions of Sexual Roles4
The Consequences of Self-Identification: examples from – Two Recreation Experience Settings4
Bicycles and the Potential of Unstructured Sport for Development and Peace4
An Exploratory Study of Silver Taekwondo as Serious Leisure and Successful Aging4
‘Sauna Is My Nest!’: Sense of Community Among Korean Middle-Aged Women Enjoying Sauna Bathing4
Dry and Outside: The Rise of Sober Outdoor Recreation Experiences4
Looking for Leisure in All the Wrong Places: What the Ju/ ’hoansi Can Teach Us About Leisure4
The Prosumption Networks of Twitter Users Following the Premier League’s Support for #BlackLivesMatter and the #WhiteLivesMatter Response4
Parting Thoughts VI4
What Gets Counted Counts: Equity as a Lens to Rethink the Categorization of Cycling Trips4
Neighborhood Commercial Circle Environmental Factors for Generation Z Visitors: Scale Development and Validation3
Parting Thoughts XLIX: Gossip as Social Currency3
Spinning Fast Without Falling: Women’s Embodied Empowerment Through Roller Derby3
The Effect of Outdoor Play, Physical Activity, and Screen Time Use on the Emotional Wellbeing of Children and Youth during a Health Crisis3
The Intergenerational Transmission of Mindset of Fitness and Its Role in Elevating Children’s Leisure-Time Physical Activity3
Blossoming: Finding a New Identity after the Loss of a Spouse3
How Do Compulsory Volunteer Experiences at Sporting Events Help Improve Sport Participation and Life Satisfaction?3
“I Want to be Part of Them”: A Phenomenological Study of Chinese Table Tennis Players Seeking Nostalgic Leisure Experiences in Korea3
One Family, Two Leisure Worlds: Analysis of Gender Order and Its Relationship to the “Leisure Gap” Between Mothers and Fathers3
Drained Tourists: Goal Conflict Undermines Well-Being via Ego Depletion and Self-Regulation Failure3
“But I Also like to Enjoy my Time, I’m Not a Student 24 Hours a Day”: Adolescents’ Perspectives About Organized Leisure and School Stress3
Peritraumatic leisure3
No such Thing as Bad Birding Weather, but Depends on Personal Experience3
What Are They Exchanging? Exploring the Sources of Tourist Social Exchange from the Perspective of Place Attachment3
Designing Conviviality? How Music Festival Organizers Produce Spaces of Encounter in an Urban Context3
Pro-Environmental Attitudes, E-Bike Adoption Motivations, and Tourist Green Behavior3
Empowerment Through Solo Travel: The Self-Identity Transformation of Chinese Women in Emerging Adulthood3
Understanding Birdwatching Motivation Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory3
Our Park, Our Community: Exploring Psychological Ownership in Public Open Spaces3
An Impossible Job: How Self-Surveillance, Responsibilisation and Personalisation Shape Outdoor Leader Embodiment3
Chicano Park’s Skateboard Memorial Murals: Extending the Sacred in Polluted Leisure3
The ‘Attachment Style-Leisure’ Framework: A Conceptualized Framework for Transformation Between Stressful Exercises and Leisure Activities3
Do We Perceive Risk Differently? A Cross-National Comparison of Hiking Trail Risk Perception Using Online Reviews2
How Do Awareness, Perceptions, and Expectations of an Urban Greenway Influence Residents’ Visits and Recreational Physical Activity? Evidence From the Connswater Community Greenway, Belfast, Northern 2
Assessing Crowding Perceptions and Satisfaction Among Diverse Visitors at El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico2
Glocalizing Action in the Anthropocene: Understanding the Potential Roles of Sport for Development and Peace2
A brief measure of adult playfulness: Development and validation of the ten‑item Adult Playfulness Trait Scale (APTS‑10)2
Gay Men’s Engagement with a Gay Campground Community in the Rural Southern United States2
Digital Leisure among Older Adults: Connections to Social Support, Flow, and Social Inclusion2
Researching Men and Masculinities as a Woman: A Feminist Geography Reflection2
Neoliberalism and Its (Leisure) Discontents2
The ‘Goggle-Box’ Recording2
Life at the Table: Impact of Casino Dealers’ Work on Their Leisure Participation, Quality of Life, and Job Performance2
Exploring Parental Experiences and Meaning of Involvement within Youth Sport: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis2
Leisure and the Legacy of bell hooks: A Personal Reflection from Beccy Watson2
Access to Urban Leisure: Investigating Mobility Justice for Transgender and Gender Diverse People on Public Transport2
Opening the Metaverse: The Next Frontier in Sport and Leisure2
Why Do Park Visitors Engage With Social Media for Peer-to-Peer Information?2
Polluted Leisure Enskilment: Skateboarding as Ecosophy2
Statement of Removal2
Exploring Co-Creation Experiences and Crowding in Theme Parks: A Comparative Study of Generation Y and Generation Z Visitors2
Young Adults’ Acceptance of Later-Life Sexuality Is Predicted by Their General Sexual Attitudes and Viewing Sex as Leisure2
Ephemerality in Personal Memory Travel: Encountering the Changing Environment2
The Function of Leisure Activity Measure (FLAM): A Multidimensional Assessment Tool for Older Adults2
On the Road Less Traveled: Women’s Cycling and Motorcycling in Iran2
The Effects of Risk and Uncertainty Perceptions on Tourists’ Intention to Visit Former Epicenters of COVID-19 Post-Pandemic: Evidence from China2
Man or Bear?: A Thematic Analysis of Men’s Responses to Gender-Based Violence Discourse on TikTok2
Contesting the production of safer leisure spaces for queer youth: Addressing oppositional sexism and experiencing psychic affirmation2
Toward a Conceptual Framework of Arts Justice – A Normative Turn in the Sociology of Arts Inequalities2
Parting Thoughts XXVII: “What is so special about ‘whiteness’?” The perennial desire to be white in tourism2
The Fatal Coupling of Race, State and Research on Disparities2
Parting Thoughts XXVIII: Leisure and the Anthropocene2
COVID-19’s Impacts on Community-Based Sport and Recreation Programs: The Voices of Socially-Vulnerable Youth and Practitioners2
Polish Family Leisure: Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the Family Leisure Activity Profile (FLAP)2
How Do Urban Nature Parks Contribute to Psychological Restoration? The Perspective of Embodied Experience2
Parting Thoughts LI2
Effects of an Outdoor Adventure on Adolescents’ Well-Being and Nature Connection—a Comparison With a Drama Workshop2
Couple Vacations: Linking Joint Vacation Experiences of Romantic Couples to Satisfaction with Relationship Life2
“You Always Had to Be Very Careful:” Mapping Civil Leisure Constraints for Collegiate Athletes Engaging in Social Media Activism2
Leisure Crafting and Pro-Environmental Behavior: The Potential Mediating Role of Engagement2
Square Dancing as a Leisure Pursuit Connecting to Meaning in Life among Taiwanese Middle-Aged Adults2
Leisure–Family Facilitation: A Scale Development and Empirical Study2
Profiling the South African Recreational Domestic Tourist in the Era of COVID-191
Exploring the Role of Quality Tourism Experiences as a Driver of Quality of Life through Personal Lifestyle1
Avatar Profile Design and Source Credibility in Online Leisure Communities: Implications for Engagement Strategies1
Relationships of Social Support and Activity Attachment with Purpose in Life among Older Forest Bathers: A Mediated Model1
Hypercasual and Hybrid-Casual Video Gaming: A Digital Leisure Perspective1
Application of Theoretical Model for Leisure Practices Based on Constraints-Attitudes and Factors Associated with the Positive Perception of Wellbeing1
Parting Thoughts XVIII1
Can Residents Access Leisure Spaces in Our City: Investigating the Leisure Space Distribution in Seoul, South Korea1
Intersecting Identities: Investigating Effects of Multiple Hierarchy Stratification Perspective on Visitor Activity Participation1
The Relationships between Leisure Time, Perceived Stress and Subjective Well-Being in Young and Middle-Aged Working Adults in China1
Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Population Heat in Urban Green Spaces in China1
The Interplay of Community Leisure, Interaction Ritual, and Sense of Community: Toward an Attraction-Interaction-Emotion Framework1
Parting Thoughts L: Curating Meaning in Leisure Scholarship: Reflections from an Exhibit of Cartoon Dogs1
Applying Experience Sampling Methods in Leisure Research Contexts1
Researching Leisure in the Aftermath of Trauma: An Auto-Ethnography of Loss, Fear, and Working with Refugee Families1
Rethinking the ‘Fit’ in Fitness: Misfitting (Loudly) to Transform Physical Activity Futures1
Measuring Social Connectedness during Shared Leisure Activities Using Oxytocin: A Comparison of Sampling Urine versus Saliva1
Recreational Trout Fishing and Mental Health and Well-Being in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Cross-Sectional Study1
Unraveling the Barriers Contributing to the Seniors Travelers’ Non-adoption Intention of Virtual Reality1
Restructuring Priorities: Rethinking Economic Growth for a More Active Future1
Philanthropic CSR Participation Intention among Sport Spectators and Fans within the Psychological Continuum Model1
“Life is Better in Another Country”: a Case Study of International Migration of Middle Aged and Older Adults in South Korea1
Parting Thoughts XXXII: Cultural Endurance: Ancient Blackfoot Clothing at a Modern Social Dance, 19441
Bodies in the Making? Racial Body Schemas and Roma Youth in Leisure Spaces1
Correction1
Using Study Abroad Memories in Everyday Life: Insights from the Functional Approach to Autobiographical Memory1
And the Winner Is - Anthropocentrism and Speciesism: Writing a History of Animals in New Zealand’s Agricultural and Pastoral Events1
The Gig Economy, Alienation, and Leisure1
Optimizing the Dissemination of Nature-Based Park Safety Information: A Customer Journey Mapping in Western Australia1
Leisure Geographies and Domestication in Middle-Class Households1
Navigating Masculinity Fluidity: Heterosexual Men’s Experiences in Chinese Urban Gay Bars1
Correction1
Review of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Leisure1
Correction1
Dynamic Linkage between Tourism, Corruption and CO 2 Emission on Economic Growth in BRI Countries1
The Discworld Mapp’d: Constructing Competing Narratives of Inequality in Science-Fiction Fandom1
Police Harassment, Public Parks, and People of Color: A Research Update and Reconceptualization1
Understanding the Outcomes of Associational Involvement in Football Fan Clubs: Assessing the Validity of Socialization and Selection Hypotheses1
College Students’ Healthy Leisure: Latent Profile Analyses of Constraints and Negotiation Strategies1
Parting Thoughts XLVI: Paws and Reflect: The Role of Strays in Istanbul’s Cultural Life1
Sex as Leisure as a Coping Mechanism with the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sex Life1
Mechanisms of Action Promoting Social Emotional Learning in Sport and Recreation Program for Socially Vulnerable Youth1
Bras, Bounce, and Bodily Boundaries: Exploring the Materiality of Moving Bodies1
Parting Thoughts XVII1
Women with Acquired Physical (Dis)Abilities: Reclaiming a Sense of Community Belonging through Physically Active Leisure1
Crowding, Emotions, Visitor Satisfaction and Loyalty in a Managed Visitor Attraction1
Latent Profiles and Transitions of Daily Routine Disruptions Are Associated with Severity of Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression1
Conspiracy Thinking About the 15-Minute City: Something from Nothing?1
The Role of Gaming Passion in Couples’ Romantic Relationships1
I Have to do it, but I like it: The Sense of Enjoyment and Obligation in Adolescents’ Organized Leisure-Time Activities1
Playing Board Games to Increase Emotional Competencies in School-Age Children and Older People: A Systematic Review1
The Spectrum of Defensive Placemaking: Affordances and Perceptibility in Public Spaces of Leisure1
Identifying Restorative Environments for Employees’ Recovery: An Interdisciplinary Mixed Methods Approach1
Pleasant Anticipation of an After-Work Free-Time Activity and Work Engagement: Findings from Two Studies1
“I Am Not Diversity Training”: Exploring the Experiences of Diverse Parks and Recreation Professionals Through Socio-Ecological Systems Theory1
“Learning is Like a Preservative”: Lifelong Learning as Leisure1
An Embodied Perspective on How Recreational Involvement Affects Tourist Well-Being in Marine-Based Tourism1
Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction in Leisure and Academics of Chinese International Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Associations between Depression Symptoms and Leisure Behavior during the COVID-19 State of Emergency1
Tourists at Work: Outstation Leisure Behavior of Airline Cabin Crew1
Happy Orphans? The Effect of Leisure Activities on Life Satisfaction1
New Horizons in Loss and Death Research in Leisure Studies1
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