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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Subjective norms, attitudes, and intentions of AR technology use in tourism experience: the moderating effect of millennials38
To be or not to be: negotiating leisure constraints with technology and data analytics amid the COVID-19 pandemic32
Leisure experience and participation and its contribution to stress-related growth amid COVID-19 pandemic32
How to re-engage older adults in community sport? Reasons for drop-out and re-engagement25
Beyond integration: football as a mobile, transnational sphere of belonging for refugee-background young people23
The impact of out-of-home leisure before quarantine and domestic leisure during quarantine on subjective well-being21
Towards a digital football studies: current trends and future directions for football cultures research in the post-Covid-19 moment20
Social stratification of leisure time sport and exercise activities: comparison of ten popular sports activities20
Cultural consumption and Covid-19: evidence from the Taking Part and COVID-19 Cultural Participation Monitor surveys19
Using the Theories of Planned Behaviour and Leisure Constraints to study Fitness Club Members’ behaviour after Covid-19 Lockdown17
From television to YouTube: digitalised sport mega-events in the platform society16
Barriers to leisure-time social participation and community integration among Syrian and Iraqi refugees16
Bobbing in the park: wild swimming, conviviality and belonging15
Understanding the importance of sport stadium visits to teams and cities through the eyes of online reviewers15
Creative tourism and creative spaces in China15
Nearby nature in lockdown: Practices and affordances for leisure in urban green spaces15
Serious leisure experience in a dyadic pursuit: elite player motivations and participation in tournament bridge15
Changing Australian leisure mobilities in the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring the role of automobilities15
MOTORCYCLE TOURISM AND NATURE: an analysis of motorcyclists´ motivations to travel14
Spatial justice, informal sport and Australian community sports participation14
The mega-events database: systematising the evidence on mega-event outcomes14
Role of cultural worldview in predicting heritage tourists’ behavioural intention13
Seeking tourism in a social context: an examination of Chinese rural migrant workers’ travel motivations and constraints13
Leisure boredom, leisure challenge, smartphone use, and emotional distress among U.S. college students: are they interrelated?13
Leisure time physical activity, social support, health perception, and mental health among women with breast cancer13
Power of good old days: how leisure nostalgia influences work engagement, task performance, and subjective well-being13
Exploring adolescent computer gaming as leisure experience and consumption: some insights on deviance and resistance12
Social capital from sport event participation: scale development and validation12
Gyms’ indoor environmental quality and customer emotion: the mediating roles of perceived service quality and perceived psychological safety12
Sports participation during a lockdown. How COVID-19 changed the sports frequency and motivation of participants in club, event, and online sports12
The role of health beliefs in moderating the relationship between leisure participation and wellbeing among older Chinese adults11
Online and offline leisure, relatedness and psychological distress: a study of young people in Switzerland11
Swimming and surfing in ocean ecologies: encounter and vulnerability in nature-based sport and physical activity11
Skateboarding in the Anthropocene: Grey spaces of polluted leisure11
Sport mega-event governance and human rights: the ‘Ruggie Principles’, responsibility and directions11
Can leisure crafting enhance leisure engagement? The role of time structure and leisure type10
Leisure, activism, and the animation of the urban environment10
Roles of travel and leisure in quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Sites of intensity: leisure and emotions amid the necropolitics of asylum10
A critique of serious leisure as theory10
Perceived constraints and negotiation strategies by elderly tourists when visiting heritage sites9
Happiology in community festivals: a case of Filipino repeat local participants9
Informal sport and leisure, urban space and social inequalities: Editors’ Introduction9
Does the Olympic legacy and sport participation influence resident support for future events?9
The importance of support for sport tourism development among local residents: the mediating role of the perceived impacts of sport tourism9
Health group walks: making sense of associations with the natural landscape8
A ‘cannibalised’ cricket event? Mediatisation, innovation and The Hundred8
E‘Ride on!’: The Zwift platform as a space for virtual leisure7
‘If you respect us...listen to us’: how sporting event media reframes or reinforces representations of street-connected children7
Exploring the Personal and Social Aspects of Individuals with Physical Disabilities’ Leisure Experiences: experiencing leisure but as an individual person7
Familial cultural activities and child development – Findings from a longitudinal panel study7
“Running makes me feel …”: The production of emotion through leisure7
The 4-day work-week: the new leisure society?7
Virtual reality tourism and technology acceptance: a disability perspective7
Fan attitudes towards sexual minorities in German men’s football7
Community and social correlates of leisure activity participation among older adults7
Understanding visitors’ leisure benefits and heritage meaning-making: a case study of Liangzhu Culture Museum7
U.S. family cultures of sport and physical activity and 15 year olds’ physical activity, sports participation, and subjective health7
Impact of Perceived Social Apathy on Tourists’ Behavioral Intentions7
The influence of paternal co-participation on girls’ participation in surfing, mountain biking, and skateboarding in regional Australia7
Contested bodies in a regenerating city: post-migrant men’s contingent citizenship, parkour and diaspora spaces6
Leisure, inequalities, and the Global South6
Tracking oneself for others: communal and self-motivational value of sharing exercise data online6
Of companionship, curfew, and conflict: multispecies leisure in the age of COVID6
Watching the FIFA World Cup under cosmopolitanisation: how football fans in Hong Kong followed the 2018 World Cup6
‘It’s just nice not to be on screens’: exploring the relationship between pottery making, eudemonic wellbeing, and Instagram6
Relationships between social support and satisfaction- moderating role of facilitation6
COVID-19 and outdoor recreation in the post-anthropause6
Queering urban space through informal recreation: The experiences of a queer, predominantly Asian volleyball community in New York City6
Industry insights and post pandemic practices for entrepreneurship and innovation in leisure6
Exercise in the time bind of work and family. Emotion management of personal leisure time among middle-aged Danish women6
Parents perceptions of online physical activity and leisure with early years children during Covid-19 and beyond5
Horseracing as gendered leisure events: doing and redoing masculinities in Mexico5
“To call my own”: migrant women, nature-based leisure and emotional release after divorce in Hong Kong5
What holds society together? Emotions, social ties, and group solidarity in leisure interaction rituals5
The impact of pet attachment on life satisfaction: the multi-mediation effects of leisure seriousness and serious leisure rewards5
Gambling lifestyles: The importance of social capital and diverse networks5
Lockdown leisure5
Ageing in the context of accompanying migration: a leisure stress coping perspective5
Promotion of leisure-time physical activity by craft breweries in Knoxville, Tennessee5
Connotation of leisure and leisure activities among urban Indian middle-class working women5
Understanding people’s motivations for a long-distance hiking trip5
Globalised and culturally homogenised? How Generation Z in Poland spends their free time5
The phenomenology of image and enthusiasm for the experience of foiling sailboats5
‘A wholly racialized world’: racial inequalities and peer review in leisure and tourism studies5
College students’ perceptions of healthy and unhealthy leisure: associations with leisure behaviour5
Running through the in-between: Distance runners in a state of liminality5
From serious leisure to devotee work: an exploratory study of yoga5
An extension of the theory of planned behaviour in Thailand cycling tourism: the mediating role of attractiveness of sustainable alternatives4
Hijab in the water! Muslim women and participation in aquatic leisure activities in New Zealand: an intersectional approach4
The Impacts of Work–Family Interface and Coping Strategy on the Relationship between Workaholism and Burnout in Campus Recreation and Leisure Employees4
Ticket to intoxication: Exploring attendees’ motivations for attending craft beer events4
Pleasurable surfing is possible: ethnographic insights into the constructive sociation choices behind meaningful nothingness4
Understanding leisure’s impacts on sources of life worth living: a multi-domain approach4
“We could just be what we wanted to be”: The role of leisure and recreation in supporting women’s mental health during COVID-194
Savouring the ordinary moments in the midst of trauma: benefits of casual leisure on adjustment following traumatic spinal cord injury4
Rejoinder to Veal’s ‘a critique of serious leisure as theory’4
Emotions and leisure: new insights and perspectives4
Vinum Regum: Classic themes in fine drinking stories4
CrossFit during lockdown. The promises and pitfalls of digitally mediated training for leisure-time physical activity4
Urban park accessibility and the mental health of older adults: a case study of Haidian District, Beijing4
Extracurricular activities, graduate attributes and serious leisure: competitive sport versus social-cultural clubs in campus life4
Outdoor participation and intent among indoor climbers: findings from the U.S. and Canada4
The influence of triathletes’ serious leisure traits on sport constraints, involvement, and participation4
Depression and leisure-based meaning-making: anhedonia as a mediating factor4
Understanding drugs as leisure through the (de)differentiation lens and the dialectic of Logos- and Eros-modernity4
Thickening serious leisure: a review of studies that employed the Serious Leisure Inventory and Measure (SLIM) between 2008 and 20194
Changes in the recreational physical activity (RPA) behaviours caused by COVID-19 lockdown – a case study of Poland4
Exploring esport players’ motivation, experiences, and well-being4
Switching channels: investigating the push, pull, and mooring effects of moving from cable TV to OTT services4
Football Fan Tokens as a mode of “serious leisure”: unveiling the dual essence of identity and investment3
Analysing family conversations and interactions during visits to Parque das Aves (Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil) from children’s perspective3
The elite breakaway sustains its lead on the peloton: social leverage, major sport events, and cultural decolonisation3
Karaoke as a form of leisure in later life: connections between singing and meaning in life3
Social-Ecological Analysis of the Sport and Recreation Programs’ Impacts on Positive Development of Youth from Socially Vulnerable Backgrounds3
Young surfers finding their wave: telling the tale of enskilment in surf places3
Leisure and trauma-informed practice3
Everything is awesome! Lego® Serious Play® (LSP) and the interaction between leisure, education, mental health and wellbeing3
Leisure activities, life satisfaction, and happiness among people with spinal cord injury during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Wasted: towards a critical research agenda for disposability in leisure3
Researcher as curator: Making room for the politics of emotion in leisure research3
Nightmares in “the happiest place on earth”: dissatisfaction in theme parks during the post-COVID era3
Children and young people’s perspectives from UK lockdown: leisure-less experiences3
Equity, identity, and representation in outdoor recreation: ‘I am not an outdoors person’3
‘Roleplaying as two straight bros going to a game’: LGBTQ2S+ spectators’ experiences at NHL arenas3
Team aspects of leisure-based entrepreneurship3
A longitudinal study on leisure of Hong Kong adolescents3
A systematic review of the wellbeing benefits of being active through leisure and fitness centres3
‘You just get sucked into it’: extending the immersion process model to virtual gameplay experiences in managed visitor attractions3
”I felt there was a big chunk taken out of my life”: COVID-19 and older adults’ library-based magazine leisure reading3
“I don’t want to get in anyone’s way”: mapping girl skateboarders’ navigation of place and power in skate spaces3
Musician emotional wellbeing during the pandemic: assessing the impact of external factors, positive life outlook and socio-demographics3
Embracing panda—assessing the leisure pursuits of subscribers to China’s iPanda live streaming platform3
Understanding tourists’ experiences at war heritage sites in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam: a netnographic analysis of TripAdvisor reviews3
Military veterans’ motivation and barriers to outdoor recreation participation3
Fitness at a distance: towards marginal differences in global fitness2
Obstacles and possibilities in archival research: archives as a data source for leisure scholars in lockdown2
‘Didn’t know she could shout that loud’: the performance of fandom among women followers of women’s golf2
Examining attitudes towards inclusion and social justice among U.S. Climbers: analysis and findings from a national survey2
Using cell phone usage data to explore the spatial distribution of virtual leisure and the impact on reality leisure2
Affective atmospheres in children’s museum experiences2
Development of leisure scores according to mental, physical, and social components and investigation of their impacts on mental health2
The development of pioneer national policy on adventure recreation in Brazil and Aotearoa/New Zealand’s first review2
“Iranians on one side, immigrants on the other!”: socio-cultural constraints to sport participation amongst Afghan women migrants and refugees2
A ramp that leads to nothing: outdoor recreation experiences of children with physical disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic2
The interface between leisure constraints and facilitators of marriage migrant women2
Sex as leisure approach during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on the quantity and quality of sex life2
‘My mum just wants me out of the house’: the leisure lifestyles of white-working class adolescents2
Leisure, religion and the (Infra)secular city: the Manchester and Salford Whit Walks2
Family support and life satisfaction of older adults: the mediating and moderating role of leisure activities and health2
Multimedia-guides and word-of-mouth in nostalgic visitor attractions: the case for a German Wax Museum2
An exploration of physical activity, migrant women and leisure experiences2
‘They give me life to carry on’: Spanish grandparents’ lived experiences of intergenerational leisure2
Time use, work and leisure in the UK before, during, between and following the Covid-19 lockdowns2
Same-sex romantic cruise experiences: the moderating effect of the personal openness trait2
Disabled animals and leisure: casting light on those left behind in the shadows2
Traditional capoeira street circles in Florianópolis (Southern Brazil): impacts of the covid-19 pandemic2
The juggernaut endures: protest, Potemkinism, and Olympic reform2
The Influence of Leisure on the Quality of Life of Refugees in Turkey2
“This machine kills fascists”: music, joy, resistance2
‘I didn’t realise the variety of people that are climbers’: a sociological exploration of young women’s propensities to engage in indoor rock climbing2
Leisure as self-care in the times of the pandemic: Insights from a time-use diary study in India2
Armchair travel through video games: stories from elsewheres and elsewhens2
Leisure satisfaction and life satisfaction in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Brazil: a meta-analysis2
Gender dissidence in leisure and travel: exploring social vulnerability and resistance in Latin America2
The battlefield of ballet schools: the commodification of dance education in China2
Cohesion in cycling neo-tribes: a netnographic approach2
Experiences of Aboriginal parents in the context of junior rugby league2
Stability and change in patterns of cultural participation in the events of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 20162
Managing youth leisure mass gatherings: A coordinated service response for ‘Safer Schoolies’2
‘Feeling what I write’: researching disability and leisure with experience of living with a disability2
Production of Scottish Open Gardens: privacy and power2
‘We tried to get rid of the stereotype’: media representations of multicultural festivals in Glasgow, Scotland2
“At this age, I can do anything”: a phenomenological study exploring self-efficacy in pole dancing among middle-aged women2
The community relations of sports tourism destinations and pro-sports tourism behavior: the multiple mediating roles of benefit perception1
Disasters and catastrophes: the impact on people with disabilities’ leisure-time physical activity participation and associative mental health and well-being1
‘It’s pretty sad if I’m just betting by myself … ’: navigating shame and stigma in everyday sports betting1
The contribution of serious leisure qualities to passion in the context of collegiate sport club participation1
The emotional presence of nature: Exploring affect in human-wilderness relations1
All in a day’s work: affective labour, disaffection and migrant leisure in a South Asian beauty salon1
The seriousness of massive multiplayer online games: the case of Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes1
Athletes as destination ambassadors: understanding the role of athlete attachment and sport involvement on country-of-origin’s image and intention to visit1
When women embrace snow-sport adventures: unravelling the influence of memorable travel experiences on well-being1
Olympians’ perspectives of environmental sustainability within the Olympic games1
Sustainable Village Project: the importance of leisure and public space for collective organization1
‘Football was the key’: the role of sports in facilitating migrants’ belonging and inclusion in Poland1
Play it light: the role of gardens and gardening in the lives of latter-day urbanites1
The problematic nature of evaluating esports’ “genuineness” using traditional sports’ criteria: In-depth interviews with traditional sports and electronic sports journalists1
Encouraging prosocial collecting behaviours: aligning psychological motives and incentives among leisure hobbyists1
Reflections on conducting research in uncertain times1
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
Skating to Legitimacy: Institutional Work Practices within Collegiate Club Hockey1
Doom-mongers beware: an analysis of the health of leisure studies1
“If you can play football, you just play!” The spatial politics of community football and urban equality in the Netherlands1
The development and validation of the Leisure Internet Usage Scale (LIUS)1
Māori households assembling precarious leisure1
The productive turbulence and unresolved questions of ‘new’ materialist approaches to sport, leisure and physical culture1
Leisure, heritage, and identity: a case study of Malaysian Chinese 24 Festive Drums performance1
The radicality and cultural significance of the sweats in Trinidad and Tobago1
Understanding Halal leisure: a preliminary view1
An exploratory study of work-leisure relationships during the Covid-19 lockdown1
Equalizer: breaking down the barriers at informal outdoor sport and recreational spaces1
How green can they be? A survey of ski tourers’ pro-environmental behaviour1
Exploring oppositionality and support of Counter-Strike redditors for the World ESports Association1
‘It’s lovely to have that sense of belonging’: older men’s involvement in walking football1
Children and the city’s streets: playing as a possibility for leisure in different communities in Florianópolis, southern Brazil1
Inequalities in access to consumption of leisure goods and services in Brazil1
Searching for prestige: motivations and managerial implications of Chinese campus tourists1
The community ‘living room’ – social interactions and social capital in a community activity in the Netherlands1
The relationship between sustainable values and the pro-environmental behaviour of outdoor sports tourism enthusiasts1
Haptic Rapport: more-than-human movement, sensing, and communion in US forest service trails1
Representational affectivities in nature-based leisure: the case of game-angling1
What do we talk about when we talk about leisure? Conceptualising leisure through the lived experiences of vocational pupils1
Being “outdoors” in a new country: associations between immigrant characteristics, outdoor recreation activities, and settlement satisfaction in Canada1
Indigenous feminist Gikendassowin (knowledge) decolonization through physical activity1
More-than-human encounters with fish in the City: from careful angling practice to deadly indifference1
Deconstructing commemorative narratives: the anniversaries of the fall of the Berlin Wall1
Impact of COVID-19 on the quantity of visitation to leisure tourism facilities in China: cases of Beijing, Shanghai, and Qingdao1
Awakening travel intentions by food travel vlogs: far from the sky and close to the eyes1
‘Where to ski?’: an ethnography of how guides make sense while planning1
Fatalism and leisure in Nepal1
Daily struggles and aspirations: exploring the leisure capabilities of working children and adolescents in Turkey1
Running alone or in groups? Social capital and quality of life considerations1
The serious leisure perspective – a synthesis1
Securing open space in an informal settlement: implications for leisure activities and community participation1
Exploring how a disability sport charity utilises exchange relationships with external organisations to sustain operations in times of lockdown1
Production and reconstruction of food cultural spaces from a glocalization perspective: Evidence from Yanji City1
Post-pandemic outdoor music festival consumption behaviour intention: an integrative approach1
Horse racing and the growth of hashtag activism1
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