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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Visitor Dynamics under Disturbance: Exploring the Interplay of Air Quality, Wildfires, and U.S. National Park Visitation Patterns26
Parental Perceived Safety Using PPGIS and Photo Survey across Urban Parks in Cairo, Egypt24
Poetry as Gift to Articulate Oppression Across Transdisciplinary Health Scholarship22
Creative Bricks, Endless Possibilities: Using Lego ® Serious Play ® (LSP) to Manage Player Transition in Women’s Semi-Elite Associ22
The Ambivalence of Ultra Endurance Sports for Athletes’ Partners: Share, Support or Separate Dilemma20
Resistance and Mothers’ Experiences in Postnatal Team Sport: “Didn’t You Just Have a Kid?”19
Leisure in Extremis : A Festschrift for Karl Spracklen18
Spatial Pattern Identification of Urban Leisure Spaces Based on Geo-Big Data and GIS Technology—A Case of Qingdao, China16
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
Special Forces-Style Tourism among Chinese Generation Z: Motivations and Experiences through the Lens of Authenticity Theory14
Understanding the Constraints Shaping Women’s Intentions to Stop Playing Community Sport14
"É nossa, é Do Brasil Inteiro” (It’s Ours, It’s for the Whole of Brazil”): Football, The Yellow Shirt, National Politics, and Conjunctural Contestation14
Motives of the Philanthropic Creators of England’s Pioneering Public Parks in the Mid-Nineteenth Century13
Making, Unmaking and Remaking Masculinity Through Leisure13
(de)Parting Thoughts: Leisure at the Edges – A Visualised Essay13
Parting Thoughts XX: Cynicism and Leisure12
How Nature-Based Leisure Activities Shape Subjective Well-Being: The Roles of Immersion and Social Context11
Leisure and the Anthropocene—Special Issue Introduction11
Cybersex as Leisure: Socio-Demographic and Socio-Psychological Profiling of the (Non)Participants in Online Sexual Activities11
Why Would You Run around Chasing a Ball? Embodied and Temporal Emotions during Leisure Time Physical Activity11
Men’s Polluted Leisure in the Anthropocene: Place Attachment and Well-Being in an Industrial Coastal Setting10
Leisure Activities are Associated with Self-Efficacy in Childhood and Adolescence10
Exploring Perceptions of Prototypical Leadership and Gender Encoding Bias among Aspiring Female Athletes10
Moral Foundations, Welcomeness and Belonging, and Visitation to Manassas National Battlefield Park: The Necessity of Nuance for Understanding Interpretive Preferences10
How Outdoor Guide Service Quality Influences Tourist Satisfaction: A Chain Mediation Model in Adventure Tourism9
Escapism or Integration? Family Constellations Reflecting on the Leisure-Time Physical Activity of Adults9
Police Harassment and Park Use by a Racially Marginalized Group: A Case Study of a Puerto Rican Community in Massachusetts9
Parting Thoughts XIII9
Socially-Driven or Performance-Driven Parkour Practice: A Comparative Analysis in Habits, Motivation and Perceived Performance Factors9
Sacrifice for Love: The Effects of Compromise on Individual Emotional Benefits in Romantic Tourism9
Customer Visual Perception of Indoor Environments: Computer Vision Analysis of Social Media Photos of Cafés in China9
Parting Thoughts XXX: My Struggle With Disney and Cognitive Dissonance9
Interpersonal Playfulness as a Protective Factor Against Loneliness and Boredom in Single People Living Alone during the COVID-19 Lockdown8
Feeling Lucky and Novelty Seeking during Vacation: The Mediating Role of Time Orientation8
Commodified Death as the Ultimate Outcome of Social Inequalities: An Analysis of the Squid Game Discourse8
The ‘Home’ Re-Framed: Interrupting Key Assumptions of the Home in Leisure Studies8
Enjoying the Night’s Splendor: Exploring the Effect of Urban Residents’ Nighttime Leisure Involvement on Subjective Well-Being: Symmetric and Asymmetric Analysis8
Parting Thoughts XXXIII: Disney Genie + as a Catalyst of Flow8
Introduction to the Special Issue, “The Fraying of Society”7
“Playing Video Games is How I Unwind”: Qualitative Reports of Gaming Benefits and Detriments in a Community Sample of Adults7
“More Than Just a Vehicle for Getting Drunk”: Class, (Serious) Leisure and the Discerning ‘No and Low’ Craft Beer Drinker7
Leisure Programs for Improving Middle-Aged and Older adults’ Depression and Quality of Life: A Meta-Analysis7
Spatial Agglomeration Mining of Urban Recreational Amenities: the Case of the Greater Bay Area in China7
‘Abide With Me’: being an Insider in the Habermasian lifeworld7
Parting Thoughts XXI: Sense of Place and the Search for Leisure7
Multiple Motives for Adventure Sport Revisited: A Multi-Activity Investigation6
The Interconnections of Trauma, Healing, Health, and Leisure: Special Issue of Leisure Sciences6
Understanding Social Media Affinity Groups Supporting Relevance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Outdoors Through a Classification System6
Examining Pathways to Camping Access in Rural Western U.S.: An Application of Access Theory6
Predicting Behavioral Intentions of Active Sport Tourists in a Non-traditional Event: The Case of Obstacle Course Runners in Spain6
Leisure Ex Machina: The Leisure Lives of Digital Minds6
A Cross-Cultural Research on Natural Tourists’ Behavioral Intentions6
Social Networking Based Leisure as Coping During Infertility: An Auto-Netnography6
The Structural Control of Labor and Leisure of Working Fathers in Taiwan: A Dialectical View on the Realm of Freedom6
Natural Sounds vs. Favorite Music: Which Is the More Restorative Indoor Leisure Activity When Listened to Repeatedly?6
Esport Social Capital: An Avenue to Develop Social Connection and Subjective Wellbeing6
Understanding Conspicuous Consumption in Picnics: A Social Comparison Framework6
“I Felt Warm, Familiar and Comfortable”: A Case Study of Western Exchange Students Seek Nostalgic Leisure Experiences in South Korea5
The Dominance of Fandom: An Analysis of How Gender and Fandom Impact Live and Non-Live Sport Event Consumption Behaviours5
Milking Meaning: Dairy Farming as Serious Leisure and the Role of Grit5
Parting Thoughts XIV: Burnout5
Parting Thoughts XXIII: Life without Worry5
A Conceptual Framework of Smartwatch Usage in Outdoor Recreation Activities: A Topic Modeling and Qualitative Inquiry5
An Enabling Approach to Sustainability Transformations in Tourism5
Parting Thoughts IX5
Campfire Smoke and the Anthropocene5
The Concept of Leisure among Chinese Older Adults: A Graphic-Elicited Approach5
Work-to-Leisure Conflict, Recovery Experience, and Well-Being: A Moderated-Mediation Model5
Examining Relationships among Festival Satisfaction, Place Attachment, Emotional Experience, and Destination Loyalty5
Investigating the Prevalence and Distribution of Sport Fandom5
More Than a Label: Exploring How a Sport-Based Diversion Program Shapes Identity among Justice-Involved Youth5
Parting Thoughts XLVIII: “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other”5
Parting Thoughts XI: Be Idle, That Is All5
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
The Birding Lifestyle - An Exploration of the Relationships Among Birding Involvement, Motivation and Recreation Specialization4
Parting Thoughts XXIV: Rejection4
Leisure Territories and Epistemologies of the South: Social Justice in Dialogue with Karl Spracklen4
The Consequences of Self-Identification: examples from – Two Recreation Experience Settings4
Turkish Cooks’ Leisure Experiences Shape Their Work Life Through Psychological Resilience: A Broaden-and-Build Theory Perspective4
‘Sauna Is My Nest!’: Sense of Community Among Korean Middle-Aged Women Enjoying Sauna Bathing4
Correction4
Dry and Outside: The Rise of Sober Outdoor Recreation Experiences4
Racial Residential Segregation and Leisure-Time Physical Activity Prevalence in Chicago, IL4
Physical Activity and Subjective Well-Being: A Social Stratification Perspective4
The Determinants of Continuance Intention toward Activity-Based Events Using a Virtual Experience Platform (VEP)4
The Enduring Negotiations of Being and Becoming: An Acknowledgement of Karl Spracklen’s Leadership in Rugby League Scholarship4
Self-Care as a Mediator of Leisure Awareness, Psychological Well-Being, and Quality of Life in Iranian Youth4
Understanding Sex as Leisure Among Transgender Men Using Foucauldian Theorization: Heterotopia, Technologies of Self, and Inversions of Sexual Roles4
What Gets Counted Counts: Equity as a Lens to Rethink the Categorization of Cycling Trips4
Land-Based Radical Healing with Black Ecologies and Critical Native Studies4
Associations Between Biodiversity, Forest Characteristics, Distance to Blue Space and Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity—Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study4
An Exploratory Study of Silver Taekwondo as Serious Leisure and Successful Aging3
Drained Tourists: Goal Conflict Undermines Well-Being via Ego Depletion and Self-Regulation Failure3
Conformity and Delinquency: Surveillance, Sport, and Youth in the Charm City3
“I Want to be Part of Them”: A Phenomenological Study of Chinese Table Tennis Players Seeking Nostalgic Leisure Experiences in Korea3
No such Thing as Bad Birding Weather, but Depends on Personal Experience3
How Do Compulsory Volunteer Experiences at Sporting Events Help Improve Sport Participation and Life Satisfaction?3
Empowerment Through Solo Travel: The Self-Identity Transformation of Chinese Women in Emerging Adulthood3
Pro-Environmental Attitudes, E-Bike Adoption Motivations, and Tourist Green Behavior3
One Family, Two Leisure Worlds: Analysis of Gender Order and Its Relationship to the “Leisure Gap” Between Mothers and Fathers3
Bicycles and the Potential of Unstructured Sport for Development and Peace3
Neighborhood Commercial Circle Environmental Factors for Generation Z Visitors: Scale Development and Validation3
The Prosumption Networks of Twitter Users Following the Premier League’s Support for #BlackLivesMatter and the #WhiteLivesMatter Response3
What Are They Exchanging? Exploring the Sources of Tourist Social Exchange from the Perspective of Place Attachment3
Peritraumatic leisure3
Parting Thoughts XLIX: Gossip as Social Currency3
The Effect of Outdoor Play, Physical Activity, and Screen Time Use on the Emotional Wellbeing of Children and Youth during a Health Crisis3
“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
Leisure and Emotional Well-Being in the Moment: A within-Person Mediation Analysis of Momentary Autonomy and Mastery3
Spinning Fast Without Falling: Women’s Embodied Empowerment Through Roller Derby3
Surveillance, Capitalism, Leisure, and Data: Being Watched, Giving, Becoming3
The ‘Attachment Style-Leisure’ Framework: A Conceptualized Framework for Transformation Between Stressful Exercises and Leisure Activities3
Our Park, Our Community: Exploring Psychological Ownership in Public Open Spaces3
Understanding Birdwatching Motivation Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory3
Designing Conviviality? How Music Festival Organizers Produce Spaces of Encounter in an Urban Context2
How Do Urban Nature Parks Contribute to Psychological Restoration? The Perspective of Embodied Experience2
Aging Playfully: Unpacking the Complexities of Digital Gaming in Later Life2
Blossoming: Finding a New Identity after the Loss of a Spouse2
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
The Fatal Coupling of Race, State and Research on Disparities2
The Function of Leisure Activity Measure (FLAM): A Multidimensional Assessment Tool for Older Adults2
Gay Men’s Engagement with a Gay Campground Community in the Rural Southern United States2
Man or Bear?: A Thematic Analysis of Men’s Responses to Gender-Based Violence Discourse on TikTok2
Polluted Leisure Enskilment: Skateboarding as Ecosophy2
Statement of Removal2
Opening the Metaverse: The Next Frontier in Sport and Leisure2
Couple Vacations: Linking Joint Vacation Experiences of Romantic Couples to Satisfaction with Relationship Life2
Neoliberalism and Its (Leisure) Discontents2
The Intergenerational Transmission of Mindset of Fitness and Its Role in Elevating Children’s Leisure-Time Physical Activity2
Chicano Park’s Skateboard Memorial Murals: Extending the Sacred in Polluted Leisure2
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
Exploring Parental Experiences and Meaning of Involvement within Youth Sport: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis2
On the Road Less Traveled: Women’s Cycling and Motorcycling in Iran2
Why Do Park Visitors Engage With Social Media for Peer-to-Peer Information?2
Toward a Conceptual Framework of Arts Justice – A Normative Turn in the Sociology of Arts Inequalities2
Negotiating Permission to Dance: Care-Embedded Serious Leisure in Urban China2
Young Adults’ Acceptance of Later-Life Sexuality Is Predicted by Their General Sexual Attitudes and Viewing Sex as Leisure2
Parting Thoughts XXVII: “What is so special about ‘whiteness’?” The perennial desire to be white in tourism2
Exploring Co-Creation Experiences and Crowding in Theme Parks: A Comparative Study of Generation Y and Generation Z Visitors2
Leisure Nostalgia as a Catalyst for Serious Leisure and Reciprocal Support: A Cross-Cultural Study of Korean and Chinese Youth2
Effects of an Outdoor Adventure on Adolescents’ Well-Being and Nature Connection—a Comparison With a Drama Workshop2
An Impossible Job: How Self-Surveillance, Responsibilisation and Personalisation Shape Outdoor Leader Embodiment2
Digital Leisure among Older Adults: Connections to Social Support, Flow, and Social Inclusion2
The ‘Goggle-Box’ Recording2
Leisure–Family Facilitation: A Scale Development and Empirical Study2
Polish Family Leisure: Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the Family Leisure Activity Profile (FLAP)2
Assessing Crowding Perceptions and Satisfaction Among Diverse Visitors at El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico2
Ephemerality in Personal Memory Travel: Encountering the Changing Environment2
“You Always Had to Be Very Careful:” Mapping Civil Leisure Constraints for Collegiate Athletes Engaging in Social Media Activism2
Do We Perceive Risk Differently? A Cross-National Comparison of Hiking Trail Risk Perception Using Online Reviews2
Researching Men and Masculinities as a Woman: A Feminist Geography Reflection2
Parting Thoughts XXVIII: Leisure and the Anthropocene2
Parting Thoughts LI2
The Relationships between Leisure Time, Perceived Stress and Subjective Well-Being in Young and Middle-Aged Working Adults in China1
Latent Profiles and Transitions of Daily Routine Disruptions Are Associated with Severity of Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression1
Researching Leisure in the Aftermath of Trauma: An Auto-Ethnography of Loss, Fear, and Working with Refugee Families1
Bridging Stigma: Marketing the Mindsport Bridge to the Next Generation of Players1
Can Residents Access Leisure Spaces in Our City: Investigating the Leisure Space Distribution in Seoul, South Korea1
Conspiracy Thinking About the 15-Minute City: Something from Nothing?1
From Mundane to Everyday Leisure: Rethinking Happiness, Meanings, and Life State Through Multispecies’ Narrative1
The Great Replacement Theory of.in.from.on Leisure Studies1
The Spectrum of Defensive Placemaking: Affordances and Perceptibility in Public Spaces of Leisure1
Rethinking the ‘Fit’ in Fitness: Misfitting (Loudly) to Transform Physical Activity Futures1
The Gig Economy, Alienation, and Leisure1
Therapeutic Mobilities: How Outdoor Leisure and Place Integration Contribute to Health Among Senior Seasonal Migrants1
Dynamic Linkage between Tourism, Corruption and CO 2 Emission on Economic Growth in BRI Countries1
Contesting the production of safer leisure spaces for queer youth: Addressing oppositional sexism and experiencing psychic affirmation1
Parting Thoughts XXVI: Leisure, Loss, and Death1
Correction1
Square Dancing as a Leisure Pursuit Connecting to Meaning in Life among Taiwanese Middle-Aged Adults1
Sex as Leisure as a Coping Mechanism with the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sex Life1
Life at the Table: Impact of Casino Dealers’ Work on Their Leisure Participation, Quality of Life, and Job Performance1
Unraveling the Barriers Contributing to the Seniors Travelers’ Non-adoption Intention of Virtual Reality1
Women with Acquired Physical (Dis)Abilities: Reclaiming a Sense of Community Belonging through Physically Active Leisure1
Future Time Perspective and Leisure Motivation Among Korean Baby Boomers: A Latent Profile Analysis1
Review of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Leisure1
Recasting Symbolic Interactionism in the Digital Age: A Goffmanian Lens on Youth Identity in Tourism1
Pleasant Anticipation of an After-Work Free-Time Activity and Work Engagement: Findings from Two Studies1
Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction in Leisure and Academics of Chinese International Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Leisure Geographies and Domestication in Middle-Class Households1
Hypercasual and Hybrid-Casual Video Gaming: A Digital Leisure Perspective1
Happy Orphans? The Effect of Leisure Activities on Life Satisfaction1
The Interplay of Community Leisure, Interaction Ritual, and Sense of Community: Toward an Attraction-Interaction-Emotion Framework1
Parting Thoughts XVIII1
Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Population Heat in Urban Green Spaces in China1
I Have to do it, but I like it: The Sense of Enjoyment and Obligation in Adolescents’ Organized Leisure-Time Activities1
College Students’ Healthy Leisure: Latent Profile Analyses of Constraints and Negotiation Strategies1
Correction1
An Embodied Perspective on How Recreational Involvement Affects Tourist Well-Being in Marine-Based Tourism1
Application of Theoretical Model for Leisure Practices Based on Constraints-Attitudes and Factors Associated with the Positive Perception of Wellbeing1
An Integrated Approach to Understanding Visitors' Behavioral Intentions: A Case Study of the Naghsh-e Jahan Square, Esfahan1
The Discworld Mapp’d: Constructing Competing Narratives of Inequality in Science-Fiction Fandom1
Bodies in the Making? Racial Body Schemas and Roma Youth in Leisure Spaces1
Tourism Discourse and Surveillance: Situational Analysis of Post-Katrina New Orleans1
“I Am Not Diversity Training”: Exploring the Experiences of Diverse Parks and Recreation Professionals Through Socio-Ecological Systems Theory1
Leisure Activity Engagement and Subjective Well-Being Among Older Adults: Evidence from an Ordered Logit Model with Fixed Effects1
New Horizons in Loss and Death Research in Leisure Studies1
Parting Thoughts XLVI: Paws and Reflect: The Role of Strays in Istanbul’s Cultural Life1
Intersecting Identities: Investigating Effects of Multiple Hierarchy Stratification Perspective on Visitor Activity Participation1
Bras, Bounce, and Bodily Boundaries: Exploring the Materiality of Moving Bodies1
Mechanisms of Action Promoting Social Emotional Learning in Sport and Recreation Program for Socially Vulnerable Youth1
Sport as Symbolic Capital: A Factorial Survey Approach1
Avatar Profile Design and Source Credibility in Online Leisure Communities: Implications for Engagement Strategies1
Using Study Abroad Memories in Everyday Life: Insights from the Functional Approach to Autobiographical Memory1
Relationships of Social Support and Activity Attachment with Purpose in Life among Older Forest Bathers: A Mediated Model1
Understanding the Outcomes of Associational Involvement in Football Fan Clubs: Assessing the Validity of Socialization and Selection Hypotheses1
The Alteration and Degradation of Flow1
Optimizing the Dissemination of Nature-Based Park Safety Information: A Customer Journey Mapping in Western Australia1
Navigating Masculinity Fluidity: Heterosexual Men’s Experiences in Chinese Urban Gay Bars1
Tourists at Work: Outstation Leisure Behavior of Airline Cabin Crew1
And the Winner Is - Anthropocentrism and Speciesism: Writing a History of Animals in New Zealand’s Agricultural and Pastoral Events1
Police Harassment, Public Parks, and People of Color: A Research Update and Reconceptualization1
Parting Thoughts L: Curating Meaning in Leisure Scholarship: Reflections from an Exhibit of Cartoon Dogs1
Correction1
Applying Experience Sampling Methods in Leisure Research Contexts1
Parting Thoughts XVII1
The Role of Gaming Passion in Couples’ Romantic Relationships1
Reading Spracklen on Goth and Dark Leisure: A Nouveaux Nuttall?1
“Learning is Like a Preservative”: Lifelong Learning as Leisure1
Philanthropic CSR Participation Intention among Sport Spectators and Fans within the Psychological Continuum Model1
Leisure Crafting and Pro-Environmental Behavior: The Potential Mediating Role of Engagement1
Identifying Restorative Environments for Employees’ Recovery: An Interdisciplinary Mixed Methods Approach1
Exploring the Role of Quality Tourism Experiences as a Driver of Quality of Life through Personal Lifestyle1
Restructuring Priorities: Rethinking Economic Growth for a More Active Future1
Recreational Trout Fishing and Mental Health and Well-Being in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Cross-Sectional Study1
“Life is Better in Another Country”: a Case Study of International Migration of Middle Aged and Older Adults in South Korea1
Playing Board Games to Increase Emotional Competencies in School-Age Children and Older People: A Systematic Review1
Parting Thoughts XXXII: Cultural Endurance: Ancient Blackfoot Clothing at a Modern Social Dance, 19441
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