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Leisure, Mental Health and Community Development

Wednesday, 18 July 2018: 17:30-19:20
Location: 201D (MTCC NORTH BUILDING)
RC13 Sociology of Leisure (host committee)

Language: English

Community is the smallest local group that encompasses every aspect of human life. Locality, location, geographical position are important components of the community idea. Locality provides a kind of home where physical and mental security are ensured. Its important functions are socialisation, providing livelihoods possibilities, social participation fulfilling the need for social life, social control and mutual support. The essence of community development lies in locality, in local, settlement-level or regional action and development. The resulting activity is everything the population itself performs for the sake of helping itself, including the organising of leisure. Leisure can nourish community development activities, can mobilise communities, can enhance the quality of community life and can offer strategic opportunities for community development. The session invites those theoretical and empirical studies that analyse the importance of leisure in establishing, developing and maintaining communities and in turn promoting mental health.
Session Organizer:
Klara TARKO, Institute of Applied Health Sciences and Health Promotion, Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education, University of Szeged, Hungary
Chair:
Zsuzsanna BENKO, Institute of Applied Health Sciences and Health Promotion, University of Szeged, Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education, Szeged, Hungary
Co-Chair:
Fabio Massimo LO VERDE, University of Palermo, Italy
Oral Presentations
257.1
A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Leisure, Place Attachment, and Meaning in Life
Shintaro KONO, University of Alberta, Canada; Eiji ITO, Wakayama University, Japan; Isao OKAYASU, Hiroshima University of Economics, Japan; Gordon WALKER, University of Alberta, Canada
257.2
A Framework of Recreational Program Delivery: Instilling Positive Development in Youth and the Capacity to Facilitate Community Development
Evan WEBB, University of Ottawa, Canada; George KARLIS, University of Ottawa, Canada
257.3
Forecasting the Social Return on Investment Associated with Children's Participation in Circus-Arts Training on Their Mental Health and Well-Being.
Richard MCGRATH, University of South Australia, Australia; Kristen STEVENS, University of South Australia, Australia
257.4
Commuter Challenge Towards Community Sustainability: Healthy Commuting As Continuous Perspective
Inna PISKUNOVA, Calgary, Canada
257.5
Practice without Faith As Leisure: Analyzing Multiple Dimensions of Religiosity and Those Effects on Happiness in Japan
Koki SHIMIZU, Hokkaido University, Japan
257.6
Does Leisure Involvement Relate to Interdependent Happiness Among Japanese Masters Athletes?
Eiji ITO, Wakayama University, Japan; Kei HIKOJI, Wakayama University, Japan
Distributed Papers
257.7
’We Can Do It!’ – the Mental Health Promoting Effect of Female Communities
Kitti Franciska FERENCZ, University of Szeged, Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education, Hungary; Klara TARKO, University of Szeged, Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education, Hungary
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