Leisure Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Leisure Studies 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Locked down leisure in Britain39
Subjective norms, attitudes, and intentions of AR technology use in tourism experience: the moderating effect of millennials33
To be or not to be: negotiating leisure constraints with technology and data analytics amid the COVID-19 pandemic31
Leisure experience and participation and its contribution to stress-related growth amid COVID-19 pandemic29
A systematic quantitative literature review of empirical research on large-scale sport events’ social legacies26
Cultural consumption and Covid-19: evidence from the Taking Part and COVID-19 Cultural Participation Monitor surveys18
Embracing city life: physical activities and the social integration of the new generation of female migrant workers in urban China18
The impact of out-of-home leisure before quarantine and domestic leisure during quarantine on subjective well-being18
Social stratification of leisure time sport and exercise activities: comparison of ten popular sports activities17
Towards a digital football studies: current trends and future directions for football cultures research in the post-Covid-19 moment17
How to re-engage older adults in community sport? Reasons for drop-out and re-engagement17
Beyond integration: football as a mobile, transnational sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people17
Benefits of leisure activities for the quality of life of older South Korean adults16
Landscapes of tension, tribalism and toxicity: configuring a spatial politics of esport communities16
How personality affects environmentally responsible behaviour through attitudes towards activities and environmental concern: evidence from a national park in Taiwan15
Changing Australian leisure mobilities in the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring the role of automobilities14
Relationship between flow experience and subjective vitality among older adults attending senior centres14
Women’s mountaineering: accessing participation benefits through constraint negotiation strategies12
Serious leisure experience in a dyadic pursuit: elite player motivations and participation in tournament bridge12
MOTORCYCLE TOURISM AND NATURE: an analysis of motorcyclists´ motivations to travel12
Using the Theories of Planned Behaviour and Leisure Constraints to study Fitness Club Members’ behaviour after Covid-19 Lockdown12
Consuming local: product, place, and experience in visitor reviews of urban Texas craft breweries11
Leisure time physical activity, social support, health perception, and mental health among women with breast cancer11
Leisure boredom, leisure challenge, smartphone use, and emotional distress among U.S. college students: are they interrelated?11
Creative tourism and creative spaces in China11
Normative drag culture and the making of precarity10
A critique of serious leisure as theory10
Power of good old days: how leisure nostalgia influences work engagement, task performance, and subjective well-being10
Critical mountaineering decisions: technology, expertise and subjective risk in adventurous leisure10
Barriers to leisure-time social participation and community integration among Syrian and Iraqi refugees10
Understanding local residents’ responses to the development of Mount Gariwang for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games10
Nearby nature in lockdown: Practices and affordances for leisure in urban green spaces10
Drawing a line in the sand: the social impacts of an LGBTQI+ event in an Australian rural community10
Voluntary dance performance as serious leisure and successful ageing10
Understanding the importance of sport stadium visits to teams and cities through the eyes of online reviewers9
Sports participation during a lockdown. How COVID-19 changed the sports frequency and motivation of participants in club, event, and online sports9
Online and offline leisure, relatedness and psychological distress: a study of young people in Switzerland9
Role of cultural worldview in predicting heritage tourists’ behavioural intention9
From television to YouTube: digitalised sport mega-events in the platform society8
Gyms’ indoor environmental quality and customer emotion: the mediating roles of perceived service quality and perceived psychological safety8
Can leisure crafting enhance leisure engagement? The role of time structure and leisure type8
The role of health beliefs in moderating the relationship between leisure participation and wellbeing among older Chinese adults8
Does the Olympic legacy and sport participation influence resident support for future events?8
Roles of travel and leisure in quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic8
Swimming and surfing in ocean ecologies: encounter and vulnerability in nature-based sport and physical activity8
Changing identities through collective performance at events: the case of the Redhead Days8
The influence of paternal co-participation on girls’ participation in surfing, mountain biking, and skateboarding in regional Australia7
The pursuit of uniqueness and craving for freedom: the meaning of luxury in the age of access7
Spatial justice, informal sport and Australian community sports participation7
‘If you respect us...listen to us’: how sporting event media reframes or reinforces representations of street-connected children7
Bobbing in the park: wild swimming, conviviality and belonging7
Exploring adolescent computer gaming as leisure experience and consumption: some insights on deviance and resistance7
Risky positioning – social aspirations and risk-taking behaviour in avalanche terrain7
Happiology in community festivals: a case of Filipino repeat local participants7
Leisure, activism, and the animation of the urban environment7
Perceived constraints and negotiation strategies by elderly tourists when visiting heritage sites7
E‘Ride on!’: The Zwift platform as a space for virtual leisure7
Moving beyond ideology: contemporary recreation and the neoliberal discourses of new public health7
Social capital from sport event participation: scale development and validation7
Entangling voluntarism, leisure time and political work: the governmentalities of neighbourhood planning in England6
Skateboarding in the Anthropocene: Grey spaces of polluted leisure6
Exercise in the time bind of work and family. Emotion management of personal leisure time among middle-aged Danish women6
Relationships between social support and satisfaction- moderating role of facilitation6
Cultural consonance predicts leisure satisfaction in Taiwan6
Sojourners in Macau: blurring binaries of home/away and work/leisure6
‘We just thought everyone else is going so we might as well’: middle-class parenting and franchised baby/toddler swimming6
Sport mega-event governance and human rights: the ‘Ruggie Principles’, responsibility and directions6
Tracking oneself for others: communal and self-motivational value of sharing exercise data online6
Fan attitudes towards sexual minorities in German men’s football6
The ‘troika of security’: merging retrospective and futuristic ‘risk’ and ‘security’ assessments before Euro 20206
Delivering a sports participation legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: evidence from sport development workers in Birmingham and their experiences of a double-bind6
Health group walks: making sense of associations with the natural landscape6
U.S. family cultures of sport and physical activity and 15 year olds’ physical activity, sports participation, and subjective health6
The mega-events database: systematising the evidence on mega-event outcomes6
Connotation of leisure and leisure activities among urban Indian middle-class working women5
Exploring the Personal and Social Aspects of Individuals with Physical Disabilities’ Leisure Experiences: experiencing leisure but as an individual person5
Watching the FIFA World Cup under cosmopolitanisation: how football fans in Hong Kong followed the 2018 World Cup5
Leisure satisfaction and happiness: the moderating role of religion5
Perceived contributory leisure in the context of hobby beekeeping: a multi-country comparison5
“To call my own”: migrant women, nature-based leisure and emotional release after divorce in Hong Kong5
College students’ perceptions of healthy and unhealthy leisure: associations with leisure behaviour5
The importance of support for sport tourism development among local residents: the mediating role of the perceived impacts of sport tourism5
‘What’s my score?’: the complexities of straight male Geo-Social Networking Application use5
Rejoinder to Veal’s ‘a critique of serious leisure as theory’4
Running through the in-between: Distance runners in a state of liminality4
Of companionship, curfew, and conflict: multispecies leisure in the age of COVID4
A ‘cannibalised’ cricket event? Mediatisation, innovation and The Hundred4
Thickening serious leisure: a review of studies that employed the Serious Leisure Inventory and Measure (SLIM) between 2008 and 20194
What holds society together? Emotions, social ties, and group solidarity in leisure interaction rituals4
Understanding people’s motivations for a long-distance hiking trip4
The Impacts of Work–Family Interface and Coping Strategy on the Relationship between Workaholism and Burnout in Campus Recreation and Leisure Employees4
Perception assessment of environmental factors related to leisure-time physical activity in an urban stream corridor4
Vinum Regum: Classic themes in fine drinking stories4
Contested bodies in a regenerating city: post-migrant men’s contingent citizenship, parkour and diaspora spaces4
Queering urban space through informal recreation: The experiences of a queer, predominantly Asian volleyball community in New York City4
We are Wu: assessing Chinese fans’ socio-cultural identification with the only Chinese footballer in a top European league4
Older women’s identity reconstruction in leisure spaces: a case of Guangzhou, China4
Lockdown leisure4
Impact of Perceived Social Apathy on Tourists’ Behavioral Intentions4
COVID-19 and outdoor recreation in the post-anthropause4
Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities: Editors’ Introduction4
Extracurricular activities, graduate attributes and serious leisure: competitive sport versus social-cultural clubs in campus life3
An extension of the theory of planned behaviour in Thailand cycling tourism: the mediating role of attractiveness of sustainable alternatives3
The emerging civil society. Governing through leisure activism in Milan3
The influence of triathletes’ serious leisure traits on sport constraints, involvement, and participation3
Identifying social impact from supplemental events: a research framework3
Children and young people’s perspectives from UK lockdown: leisure-less experiences3
‘Roleplaying as two straight bros going to a game’: LGBTQ2S+ spectators’ experiences at NHL arenas3
Familial cultural activities and child development – Findings from a longitudinal panel study3
‘A wholly racialized world’: racial inequalities and peer review in leisure and tourism studies3
“We could just be what we wanted to be”: The role of leisure and recreation in supporting women’s mental health during COVID-193
Urban park accessibility and the mental health of older adults: a case study of Haidian District, Beijing3
Analysing family conversations and interactions during visits to Parque das Aves (Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil) from children’s perspective3
Promotion of leisure-time physical activity by craft breweries in Knoxville, Tennessee3
The impact of pet attachment on life satisfaction: the multi-mediation effects of leisure seriousness and serious leisure rewards3
The 4-day work-week: the new leisure society?3
From serious leisure to devotee work: an exploratory study of yoga3
Understanding drugs as leisure through the (de)differentiation lens and the dialectic of Logos- and Eros-modernity3
A longitudinal study on leisure of Hong Kong adolescents3
Young activists in political squats. Mixing engagement and leisure3
Leisure, inequalities, and the Global South3
Community and social correlates of leisure activity participation among older adults3
Seeking tourism in a social context: an examination of Chinese rural migrant workers’ travel motivations and constraints3
Understanding visitors’ leisure benefits and heritage meaning-making: a case study of Liangzhu Culture Museum3
Using hike-along ethnographies to explore women’s leisure experiences of Munro bagging3
Musician emotional wellbeing during the pandemic: assessing the impact of external factors, positive life outlook and socio-demographics3
Virtual reality tourism and technology acceptance: a disability perspective3
Horseracing as gendered leisure events: doing and redoing masculinities in Mexico3
‘We tried to get rid of the stereotype’: media representations of multicultural festivals in Glasgow, Scotland2
Exploring esport players’ motivation, experiences, and well-being2
Sites of intensity: leisure and emotions amid the necropolitics of asylum2
Outdoor participation and intent among indoor climbers: findings from the U.S. and Canada2
“This machine kills fascists”: music, joy, resistance2
Leisure as self-care in the times of the pandemic: Insights from a time-use diary study in India2
Gender dissidence in leisure and travel: exploring social vulnerability and resistance in Latin America2
Karaoke as a form of leisure in later life: connections between singing and meaning in life2
Time use, work and leisure in the UK before, during, between and following the Covid-19 lockdowns2
Parents perceptions of online physical activity and leisure with early years children during Covid-19 and beyond2
Pleasurable surfing is possible: ethnographic insights into the constructive sociation choices behind meaningful nothingness2
Understanding leisure’s impacts on sources of life worth living: a multi-domain approach2
Wasted: towards a critical research agenda for disposability in leisure2
Researcher as curator: Making room for the politics of emotion in leisure research2
Industry insights and post pandemic practices for entrepreneurship and innovation in leisure2
“Running makes me feel …”: The production of emotion through leisure2
Globalised and culturally homogenised? How Generation Z in Poland spends their free time2
Cohesion in cycling neo-tribes: a netnographic approach2
Young surfers finding their wave: telling the tale of enskilment in surf places2
Everything is awesome! Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) and the interaction between leisure, education, mental health and wellbeing2
Managing youth leisure mass gatherings: A coordinated service response for ‘Safer Schoolies’2
Leisure activities, life satisfaction, and happiness among people with spinal cord injury during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Production of Scottish Open Gardens: privacy and power2
Switching channels: investigating the push, pull, and mooring effects of moving from cable TV to OTT services2
‘It’s just nice not to be on screens’: exploring the relationship between pottery making, eudemonic wellbeing, and Instagram2
”I felt there was a big chunk taken out of my life”: COVID-19 and older adults’ library-based magazine leisure reading2
Armchair travel through video games: stories from elsewheres and elsewhens2
Embracing panda—assessing the leisure pursuits of subscribers to China’s iPanda live streaming platform2
Ticket to intoxication: Exploring attendees’ motivations for attending craft beer events2
Team aspects of leisure-based entrepreneurship2
Inequalities in access to consumption of leisure goods and services in Brazil1
‘You just get sucked into it’: extending the immersion process model to virtual gameplay experiences in managed visitor attractions1
Equity, identity, and representation in outdoor recreation: ‘I am not an outdoors person’1
The elite breakaway sustains its lead on the peloton: social leverage, major sport events, and cultural decolonisation1
Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy: The Chinese Dream Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy: The Chinese Dream , edited by J. A. Mangan, Peter Horton and Christian Tagsold, New York, P1
“At this age, I can do anything”: a phenomenological study exploring self-efficacy in pole dancing among middle-aged women1
Skating to Legitimacy: Institutional Work Practices within Collegiate Club Hockey1
Emotions and leisure: new insights and perspectives1
Doom-mongers beware: an analysis of the health of leisure studies1
The emotional presence of nature: Exploring affect in human-wilderness relations1
The problematic nature of evaluating esports’ “genuineness” using traditional sports’ criteria: In-depth interviews with traditional sports and electronic sports journalists1
Multimedia-guides and word-of-mouth in nostalgic visitor attractions: the case for a German Wax Museum1
The Influence of Leisure on the Quality of Life of Refugees in Turkey1
Disasters and catastrophes: the impact on people with disabilities’ leisure-time physical activity participation and associative mental health and well-being1
Sport for development and Indigenous Australians: a critical research agenda for policy and practice1
The interface between leisure constraints and facilitators of marriage migrant women1
All in a day’s work: affective labour, disaffection and migrant leisure in a South Asian beauty salon1
‘They give me life to carry on’: Spanish grandparents’ lived experiences of intergenerational leisure1
Exploring how a disability sport charity utilises exchange relationships with external organisations to sustain operations in times of lockdown1
Sex as leisure approach during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on the quantity and quality of sex life1
Impact of COVID-19 on the quantity of visitation to leisure tourism facilities in China: cases of Beijing, Shanghai, and Qingdao1
Disabled animals and leisure: casting light on those left behind in the shadows1
Fatalism and leisure in Nepal1
The community relations of sports tourism destinations and pro-sports tourism behavior: the multiple mediating roles of benefit perception1
‘My mum just wants me out of the house’: the leisure lifestyles of white-working class adolescents1
‘I didn’t realise the variety of people that are climbers’: a sociological exploration of young women’s propensities to engage in indoor rock climbing1
Family support and life satisfaction of older adults: the mediating and moderating role of leisure activities and health1
Examining attitudes towards inclusion and social justice among U.S. Climbers: analysis and findings from a national survey1
Representational affectivities in nature-based leisure: the case of game-angling1
Leisure, heritage, and identity: a case study of Malaysian Chinese 24 Festive Drums performance1
Leisure satisfaction and life satisfaction in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Brazil: a meta-analysis1
Exploring oppositionality and support of Counter-Strike redditors for the World ESports Association1
Social-Ecological Analysis of the Sport and Recreation Programs’ Impacts on Positive Development of Youth from Socially Vulnerable Backgrounds1
A ramp that leads to nothing: outdoor recreation experiences of children with physical disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Changes in the recreational physical activity (RPA) behaviours caused by COVID-19 lockdown – a case study of Poland1
The seriousness of massive multiplayer online games: the case of Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes1
Children and the city’s streets: playing as a possibility for leisure in different communities in Florianópolis, southern Brazil1
Traditional capoeira street circles in Florianópolis (Southern Brazil): impacts of the covid-19 pandemic1
Leisure and trauma-informed practice1
Reflections on conducting research in uncertain times1
Savouring the ordinary moments in the midst of trauma: benefits of casual leisure on adjustment following traumatic spinal cord injury1
The battlefield of ballet schools: the commodification of dance education in China1
Experiences of Aboriginal parents in the context of junior rugby league1
Fitness at a distance: towards marginal differences in global fitness1
Searching for the stairway to heaven: information seeking about an illegal hiking trail in Hawai`i1
Hijab in the water! Muslim women and participation in aquatic leisure activities in New Zealand: an intersectional approach1
Leisure, religion and the (Infra)secular city: the Manchester and Salford Whit Walks1
Gambling lifestyles: The importance of social capital and diverse networks1
An exploration of physical activity, migrant women and leisure experiences1
The paradoxes and pragmatics of digital leisure in later life1
Affective atmospheres in children’s museum experiences1
The impact of austerity on the London 2012 Summer Olympics participation legacy from a grassroots sports club perspective: an institutional logics approach1
Depression and leisure-based meaning-making: anhedonia as a mediating factor1
The development of pioneer national policy on adventure recreation in Brazil and Aotearoa/New Zealand’s first review1
‘Didn’t know she could shout that loud’: the performance of fandom among women followers of women’s golf1
‘Feeling what I write’: researching disability and leisure with experience of living with a disability1
Stability and change in patterns of cultural participation in the events of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 20161
Development of leisure scores according to mental, physical, and social components and investigation of their impacts on mental health1
CrossFit during lockdown. The promises and pitfalls of digitally mediated training for leisure-time physical activity1
“Iranians on one side, immigrants on the other!”: socio-cultural constraints to sport participation amongst Afghan women migrants and refugees1
‘Where to ski?’: an ethnography of how guides make sense while planning1
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