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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Spatial Pattern Identification of Urban Leisure Spaces Based on Geo-Big Data and GIS Technology—A Case of Qingdao, China19
Visitor Dynamics under Disturbance: Exploring the Interplay of Air Quality, Wildfires, and U.S. National Park Visitation Patterns19
Poetry as Gift to Articulate Oppression Across Transdisciplinary Health Scholarship19
"É nossa, é Do Brasil Inteiro” (It’s Ours, It’s for the Whole of Brazil”): Football, The Yellow Shirt, National Politics, and Conjunctural Contestation15
Parental Perceived Safety Using PPGIS and Photo Survey across Urban Parks in Cairo, Egypt15
Resistance and Mothers’ Experiences in Postnatal Team Sport: “Didn’t You Just Have a Kid?”15
Creative Bricks, Endless Possibilities: Using Lego ® Serious Play ® (LSP) to Manage Player Transition in Women’s Semi-Elite Associ15
Why Would You Run around Chasing a Ball? Embodied and Temporal Emotions during Leisure Time Physical Activity14
Parting Thoughts XX: Cynicism and Leisure14
Understanding the Constraints Shaping Women’s Intentions to Stop Playing Community Sport13
Does Nostalgia Promote Personal Growth and Happiness? The Case of Field Hockey in Singapore13
Motives of the Philanthropic Creators of England’s Pioneering Public Parks in the Mid-Nineteenth Century13
Leisure Constraints and Subjective Well-Being: The Case of Recreational Sport Participants12
Developing and Validating a Scale to Measure Tourists’ Personality Change after Transformative Travel Experiences12
Sacrifice for Love: The Effects of Compromise on Individual Emotional Benefits in Romantic Tourism12
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 Massachusetts11
Men’s Polluted Leisure in the Anthropocene: Place Attachment and Well-Being in an Industrial Coastal Setting11
Exploring Perceptions of Prototypical Leadership and Gender Encoding Bias among Aspiring Female Athletes11
Leisure and the Anthropocene—Special Issue Introduction11
Cybersex as Leisure: Socio-Demographic and Socio-Psychological Profiling of the (Non)Participants in Online Sexual Activities11
“Me” vs. “We”: Value-Oriented Fee Increase Justification Messaging in the Context of Resource-Intensive Public Recreation Facilities10
Parting Thoughts XIII10
Parting Thoughts III10
Customer Visual Perception of Indoor Environments: Computer Vision Analysis of Social Media Photos of Cafés in China10
Spatial Agglomeration Mining of Urban Recreational Amenities: the Case of the Greater Bay Area in China9
Commodified Death as the Ultimate Outcome of Social Inequalities: An Analysis of the Squid Game Discourse9
Introduction to the Special Issue, “The Fraying of Society”9
Parting Thoughts XXX: My Struggle With Disney and Cognitive Dissonance9
Parting Thoughts XXXIII: Disney Genie + as a Catalyst of Flow8
Feeling Lucky and Novelty Seeking during Vacation: The Mediating Role of Time Orientation8
“More Than Just a Vehicle for Getting Drunk”: Class, (Serious) Leisure and the Discerning ‘No and Low’ Craft Beer Drinker8
Leisure Programs for Improving Middle-Aged and Older adults’ Depression and Quality of Life: A Meta-Analysis8
The ‘Home’ Re-Framed: Interrupting Key Assumptions of the Home in Leisure Studies8
Socially-Driven or Performance-Driven Parkour Practice: A Comparative Analysis in Habits, Motivation and Perceived Performance Factors8
New Materialisms, Material Methods, and the Research Process: A Creative Experiment in Cutting Together-Apart8
Interpersonal Playfulness as a Protective Factor Against Loneliness and Boredom in Single People Living Alone during the COVID-19 Lockdown8
Escapism or Integration? Family Constellations Reflecting on the Leisure-Time Physical Activity of Adults8
Parting Thoughts XXI: Sense of Place and the Search for Leisure7
Authentic Experiences and Support for Sustainable Development: Applications at Two Cultural Tourism Destinations in Taiwan7
Esport Social Capital: An Avenue to Develop Social Connection and Subjective Wellbeing7
Multiple Motives for Adventure Sport Revisited: A Multi-Activity Investigation7
Leisure Ex Machina: The Leisure Lives of Digital Minds7
Understanding Conspicuous Consumption in Picnics: A Social Comparison Framework7
Predicting Behavioral Intentions of Active Sport Tourists in a Non-traditional Event: The Case of Obstacle Course Runners in Spain7
The Structural Control of Labor and Leisure of Working Fathers in Taiwan: A Dialectical View on the Realm of Freedom7
Parting Thoughts IV7
Social Networking Based Leisure as Coping During Infertility: An Auto-Netnography7
The Interconnections of Trauma, Healing, Health, and Leisure: Special Issue of Leisure Sciences7
Shifting Our Perspective of the Meaning of a “Lost Summer”7
A Cross-Cultural Research on Natural Tourists’ Behavioral Intentions6
Understanding Social Media Affinity Groups Supporting Relevance, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Outdoors Through a Classification System6
Campfire Smoke and the Anthropocene6
An Enabling Approach to Sustainability Transformations in Tourism6
The Dominance of Fandom: An Analysis of How Gender and Fandom Impact Live and Non-Live Sport Event Consumption Behaviours6
Natural Sounds vs. Favorite Music: Which Is the More Restorative Indoor Leisure Activity When Listened to Repeatedly?6
The Concept of Leisure among Chinese Older Adults: A Graphic-Elicited Approach6
The Impact of Avalanche Education on Risk Perception, Confidence, and Decision-Making among Backcountry Skiers6
Parting Thoughts IX6
Parting Thoughts XIV: Burnout6
Parting Thoughts XI: Be Idle, That Is All6
The Determinants of Continuance Intention toward Activity-Based Events Using a Virtual Experience Platform (VEP)5
Labor, Depletion, and Disconnection: Leisure as Restoration for Uniformed Public Safety Personnel5
Turkish Cooks’ Leisure Experiences Shape Their Work Life Through Psychological Resilience: A Broaden-and-Build Theory Perspective5
Parting Thoughts XXIII: Life without Worry5
Land-Based Radical Healing with Black Ecologies and Critical Native Studies5
Associations Between Biodiversity, Forest Characteristics, Distance to Blue Space and Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity—Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 Study5
“I Felt Warm, Familiar and Comfortable”: A Case Study of Western Exchange Students Seek Nostalgic Leisure Experiences in South Korea5
Work-to-Leisure Conflict, Recovery Experience, and Well-Being: A Moderated-Mediation Model5
Physical Activity and Subjective Well-Being: A Social Stratification Perspective4
Examining Relationships among Festival Satisfaction, Place Attachment, Emotional Experience, and Destination Loyalty4
Correction4
What Gets Counted Counts: Equity as a Lens to Rethink the Categorization of Cycling Trips4
The Consequences of Self-Identification: examples from – Two Recreation Experience Settings4
Surveillance, Capitalism, Leisure, and Data: Being Watched, Giving, Becoming4
Negotiating Masculinities in the Outdoors: Men’s Performances of Gender in Outdoor Adventure Activities4
Parting Thoughts XXIV: Rejection4
Parting Thoughts VI4
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
Our Park, Our Community: Exploring Psychological Ownership in Public Open Spaces4
Relationships of Leisure Social Support and Flow with Loneliness in International Students in Taiwan: Implications during the COVID-19 Pandemic4
Mental Illness as a Valued Identity: How a Leisure Initiative Promoting Connection and Understanding Sets the Stage for Inclusion4
The Impacts of Leisure Nostalgia on Well-Being and Turnover Intention: The Mediating Roles of Leisure Satisfaction and Work Commitment4
Bicycles and the Potential of Unstructured Sport for Development and Peace4
Conformity and Delinquency: Surveillance, Sport, and Youth in the Charm City4
An Exploratory Study of Silver Taekwondo as Serious Leisure and Successful Aging4
Empowerment Through Solo Travel: The Self-Identity Transformation of Chinese Women in Emerging Adulthood3
“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
Neighborhood Commercial Circle Environmental Factors for Generation Z Visitors: Scale Development and Validation3
Peritraumatic leisure3
Pro-Environmental Attitudes, E-Bike Adoption Motivations, and Tourist Green Behavior3
Parting Thoughts XLIX: Gossip as Social Currency3
Spinning Fast Without Falling: Women’s Embodied Empowerment Through Roller Derby3
“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
Exclusionary Mechanisms of Community Leisure for Low-Income Families: Programs, Policies and Procedures3
Designing Conviviality? How Music Festival Organizers Produce Spaces of Encounter in an Urban Context3
The Effect of Outdoor Play, Physical Activity, and Screen Time Use on the Emotional Wellbeing of Children and Youth during a Health Crisis3
Understanding Birdwatching Motivation Through the Lens of Self-Determination Theory3
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
How Do Compulsory Volunteer Experiences at Sporting Events Help Improve Sport Participation and Life Satisfaction?3
A brief measure of adult playfulness: Development and validation of the ten‑item Adult Playfulness Trait Scale (APTS‑10)2
Parting Thoughts XXVII: “What is so special about ‘whiteness’?” The perennial desire to be white in tourism2
Opening the Metaverse: The Next Frontier in Sport and Leisure2
The Fatal Coupling of Race, State and Research on Disparities2
Digital Leisure among Older Adults: Connections to Social Support, Flow, and Social Inclusion2
Statement of Removal2
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
Glocalizing Action in the Anthropocene: Understanding the Potential Roles of Sport for Development and Peace2
Why Do Park Visitors Engage With Social Media for Peer-to-Peer Information?2
Exploring Parental Experiences and Meaning of Involvement within Youth Sport: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis2
Polluted Leisure Enskilment: Skateboarding as Ecosophy2
“You Always Had to Be Very Careful:” Mapping Civil Leisure Constraints for Collegiate Athletes Engaging in Social Media Activism2
Man or Bear?: A Thematic Analysis of Men’s Responses to Gender-Based Violence Discourse on TikTok2
Polish Family Leisure: Psychometric Properties of the Polish Version of the Family Leisure Activity Profile (FLAP)2
Young Adults’ Acceptance of Later-Life Sexuality Is Predicted by Their General Sexual Attitudes and Viewing Sex as Leisure2
No such Thing as Bad Birding Weather, but Depends on Personal Experience2
Effects of an Outdoor Adventure on Adolescents’ Well-Being and Nature Connection—a Comparison With a Drama Workshop2
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
The ‘Goggle-Box’ Recording2
Leisure–Family Facilitation: A Scale Development and Empirical Study2
COVID-19’s Impacts on Community-Based Sport and Recreation Programs: The Voices of Socially-Vulnerable Youth and Practitioners2
Toward a Conceptual Framework of Arts Justice – A Normative Turn in the Sociology of Arts Inequalities2
Assessing Crowding Perceptions and Satisfaction Among Diverse Visitors at El Yunque National Forest, Puerto Rico2
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
An Exploration of Leisure Motivation as Cultural Practices: A Cross-Cultural Approach2
Blossoming: Finding a New Identity after the Loss of a Spouse2
How Do Urban Nature Parks Contribute to Psychological Restoration? The Perspective of Embodied Experience2
Ephemerality in Personal Memory Travel: Encountering the Changing Environment2
Parting Thoughts XXVIII: Leisure and the Anthropocene2
“Learning is Like a Preservative”: Lifelong Learning as Leisure1
Mechanisms of Action Promoting Social Emotional Learning in Sport and Recreation Program for Socially Vulnerable Youth1
Latent Profiles and Transitions of Daily Routine Disruptions Are Associated with Severity of Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression1
Happy Orphans? The Effect of Leisure Activities on Life Satisfaction1
Life at the Table: Impact of Casino Dealers’ Work on Their Leisure Participation, Quality of Life, and Job Performance1
Recreational Trout Fishing and Mental Health and Well-Being in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Cross-Sectional Study1
Access to Urban Leisure: Investigating Mobility Justice for Transgender and Gender Diverse People on Public Transport1
Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction in Leisure and Academics of Chinese International Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic1
Bras, Bounce, and Bodily Boundaries: Exploring the Materiality of Moving Bodies1
Square Dancing as a Leisure Pursuit Connecting to Meaning in Life among Taiwanese Middle-Aged Adults1
Researching Leisure in the Aftermath of Trauma: An Auto-Ethnography of Loss, Fear, and Working with Refugee Families1
Exploring the Role of Quality Tourism Experiences as a Driver of Quality of Life through Personal Lifestyle1
Leisure Geographies and Domestication in Middle-Class Households1
Restructuring Priorities: Rethinking Economic Growth for a More Active Future1
Optimizing the Dissemination of Nature-Based Park Safety Information: A Customer Journey Mapping in Western Australia1
The Interplay of Community Leisure, Interaction Ritual, and Sense of Community: Toward an Attraction-Interaction-Emotion Framework1
And the Winner Is - Anthropocentrism and Speciesism: Writing a History of Animals in New Zealand’s Agricultural and Pastoral Events1
Sex as Leisure as a Coping Mechanism with the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sex Life1
Hsiao Yao: A Chinese Analog of the Classical Western Idea of Leisure1
The Discworld Mapp’d: Constructing Competing Narratives of Inequality in Science-Fiction Fandom1
Parental Influence on Urban Adolescents’ Physical Activity Experience1
Police Harassment, Public Parks, and People of Color: A Research Update and Reconceptualization1
Playing Board Games to Increase Emotional Competencies in School-Age Children and Older People: A Systematic Review1
Using Study Abroad Memories in Everyday Life: Insights from the Functional Approach to Autobiographical Memory1
The Effects of Risk and Uncertainty Perceptions on Tourists’ Intention to Visit Former Epicenters of COVID-19 Post-Pandemic: Evidence from China1
Tourists at Work: Outstation Leisure Behavior of Airline Cabin Crew1
The Relationships between Leisure Time, Perceived Stress and Subjective Well-Being in Young and Middle-Aged Working Adults in China1
Contesting the production of safer leisure spaces for queer youth: Addressing oppositional sexism and experiencing psychic affirmation1
Relationships of Social Support and Activity Attachment with Purpose in Life among Older Forest Bathers: A Mediated Model1
Profiling the South African Recreational Domestic Tourist in the Era of COVID-191
Measuring Social Connectedness during Shared Leisure Activities Using Oxytocin: A Comparison of Sampling Urine versus Saliva1
Rethinking the ‘Fit’ in Fitness: Misfitting (Loudly) to Transform Physical Activity Futures1
Women with Acquired Physical (Dis)Abilities: Reclaiming a Sense of Community Belonging through Physically Active Leisure1
Application of Theoretical Model for Leisure Practices Based on Constraints-Attitudes and Factors Associated with the Positive Perception of Wellbeing1
Leisure Crafting and Pro-Environmental Behavior: The Potential Mediating Role of Engagement1
Parting Thoughts XVIII1
I Have to do it, but I like it: The Sense of Enjoyment and Obligation in Adolescents’ Organized Leisure-Time Activities1
Unraveling the Barriers Contributing to the Seniors Travelers’ Non-adoption Intention of Virtual Reality1
New Horizons in Loss and Death Research in Leisure Studies1
“I Am Not Diversity Training”: Exploring the Experiences of Diverse Parks and Recreation Professionals Through Socio-Ecological Systems Theory1
Applying Experience Sampling Methods in Leisure Research Contexts1
Parting Thoughts XVII1
College Students’ Healthy Leisure: Latent Profile Analyses of Constraints and Negotiation Strategies1
“Life is Better in Another Country”: a Case Study of International Migration of Middle Aged and Older Adults in South Korea1
Pleasant Anticipation of an After-Work Free-Time Activity and Work Engagement: Findings from Two Studies1
On the Road Less Traveled: Women’s Cycling and Motorcycling in Iran1
Dynamic Linkage between Tourism, Corruption and CO 2 Emission on Economic Growth in BRI Countries1
Avatar Profile Design and Source Credibility in Online Leisure Communities: Implications for Engagement Strategies1
Leisure and the Legacy of bell hooks: A Personal Reflection from Beccy Watson1
Parting Thoughts L: Curating Meaning in Leisure Scholarship: Reflections from an Exhibit of Cartoon Dogs1
Can Recreation Specialization Negatively Impact Pro-Environmental Behavior in Hiking Activity? A Self-Interest Motivational View1
Paws and Reflect: The Role of Strays in Istanbul’s Cultural Life1
Correction1
Bodies in the Making? Racial Body Schemas and Roma Youth in Leisure Spaces1
Understanding the Outcomes of Associational Involvement in Football Fan Clubs: Assessing the Validity of Socialization and Selection Hypotheses1
Hypercasual and Hybrid-Casual Video Gaming: A Digital Leisure Perspective1
Intersecting Identities: Investigating Effects of Multiple Hierarchy Stratification Perspective on Visitor Activity Participation1
Identifying Restorative Environments for Employees’ Recovery: An Interdisciplinary Mixed Methods Approach1
Philanthropic CSR Participation Intention among Sport Spectators and Fans within the Psychological Continuum Model1
Associations between Depression Symptoms and Leisure Behavior during the COVID-19 State of Emergency1
Parting Thoughts XXXII: Cultural Endurance: Ancient Blackfoot Clothing at a Modern Social Dance, 19441
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