| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Recruitment and Remuneration of Unemployed Participants -- Questionnaires, Data Collection, and Data Entry -- Representativeness of the Sample -- Talking about Unemployment: Participant Classification and Descriptions of Daily Life -- Planners -- Vacationers -- Connectors -- Marginalized People -- Summary of the Participant Categorization Scheme -- Alternative Perspectives on Unemployment: Confirmation and Disconfirmation of Daily Life Patterns Using Experiential Sampling and Mail-Back Survey Data -- Television Viewing -- Perceptions of Leisure and Non-Leisure -- Satisfaction with Daily Planning -- Highlight of the Day: Content-Analysis of Open-Ended ESM Comments -- Respondents' Self-Esteem and Life Satisfaction -- Job Importance, Career Socialization, Leisure Boredom, Self-Definition through Leisure, and Perceived Freedom in Leisure -- Perceived Constraint on Favourite Leisure and Recreation Activities -- Integrating the Present Study with the Literature -- Loss of Latent Functions or Categories of Experience -- Activity During Unemployment -- Perceptions of Unemployment Agencies and Other Social Services -- Interacting with Human Resources Development Canada -- Other Governmental and Community Resources -- Leisure Services Planning and Policy -- Local Government: Standard Practice -- Market Segmentation -- Marketing Mix and Municipal Action -- Participant Categorization: Implications for Local Service Providers -- Provincial or Territorial, and Federal Action. |
| Summary |
Multi-method research study shows why leisure activities are as important for the unemployed as they are for the employed. Can someone who is unemployed experience leisure, or does that seem like a contradiction in terms? If unemployed people can experience leisure, how might it mitigate the negative effects of unemployment? And what form, then, would that leisure take? The relationship between leisure and unemployment has not received the attention it merits, especially in North America. Because research on leisure and unemployment must cross over areas of study, as well as theoretical perspectives, it can often seem conflicting and inconclusive. Yet the need for an understanding of that relationship remains. This groundbreaking book addresses that need. The authors describe the sometimes surprising results of their multi-method study of the effects of unemployment on leisure, lifestyle, and well-being within Canada, and integrate those results with literature collected worldwide into a comprehensive picture.; Using in-depth interviews, quantitative experience sampling, and standardised questionnaire data, this fascinating book provides ample evidence that the lived experiences of the unemployed are incredibly diverse, and the need for leisure is as intense for them as for the employed. The authors also pinpoint changes in public policy and social service agency management at local, provincial, and federal levels that will better serve unemployed people and their dependants, and enable them to use leisure activities to improve their lives. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Unemployed -- Ontario -- Social conditions.
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Unemployed. |
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Ontario. |
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Social conditions. |
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Unemployed -- Ontario -- Psychology.
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Psychology. |
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Leisure -- Ontario.
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Leisure. |
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Unemployed -- Services for -- Ontario.
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Unemployed -- Services for. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Samdahl, Diane Marie.
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Morden, Peter A. (Peter Armstrong), 1969-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Havitz, Mark E. Diverse worlds of unemployed adults. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004 0889204640 (OCoLC)55682868 |
| ISBN |
1417563192 (electronic book) |
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9781417563197 (electronic book) |
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0889204640 (paperback) |
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9780889204645 (paperback) |
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1280280808 |
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9781280280801 |
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