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Leisure-Time Physical Activity Reduces the Risk of Long-Term Sickness Absence Among Older Healthy Female Eldercare Workers
2021
Purpose: This study aimed to examine the association between leisure-time physical activity (PA) and risk of long-term sickness absence (LTSA). Design: Data on LTSA (≥3 consecutive weeks during a 1-year follow-up) were acquired from the Danish Register for Evaluation of Marginalization and linked to a questionnaire via personal identification number. Setting: Eldercare workers from 36 Danish municipalities. Subjects: Data were retrieved from 4605 healthy Danish female eldercare (i.e., workers assisting senior citizens with daily activities and health) aged 19 to 69 years, who answered a questionnaire on health, and work environment in 2005. Measures: Calculated risk of LTSA and its associat…
Leisure Time Physical Activity and Sleep Predict Mortality in Men Irrespective of Background in Competitive Sports
2017
Introduction: Physical activity and sleep are closely related behaviors with suggested synergistic influence on cardiovascular health. Physical activity potentially modifies associations between sleep and mortality. Our aim was to study the interrelationships between sleep, leisure-time physical activity (LTPA), a history of sports, and mortality. Methods: A prospective cohort of former elite male athletes (n = 1,028), and age- and region-matched nonathlete men (n = 610) completed a health questionnaire in 1985. Their mortality was followed up until December 31, 2011. Analyses included Cox proportional hazards models with sleep duration and sleep quality as main predictors of all-cause and …
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY PATTERNS OF ADOLESCENTS WITH LONG TERM ILLNESSES OR DISABILITIES IN FINNISH GENERAL EDUCATION
2014
Physical activity (PA) of adolescents with long term illnesses or disabilities (LTID) in general education is examined to provide evidence of PA levels from specific population groups. This study describes the PA levels of adolescents with LTID based on recommendations of daily 60mins of moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) and vigorous leisure time PA (VPA) of at least two times a week for at least one hour per week. Finnish data from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study was pooled from 2002 and 2010 surveys. 1126 respondents (14.6%) self-reported as having a LTID and details of main categories of LTID were used to examine PA behaviours. Overall, 15.6% of adolescents with LT…
Convergent Validity of a Physical Activity Questionnaire against Objectively Measured Physical Activity in Adults: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young F…
2017
Background: Traditionally, a self-reported questionnaire has been a cost-effective method of gathering information about physical activity (PA). An objective measurement, such as the use of a pedometer, can be used to validate the findings of a PA questionnaire in a large population. Objective: The study objective was to determine the convergent validity of a PA questionnaire against objectively measured PA in adults obtained with the use of a pedometer. Methods: Data from the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study (YFS) were collected from 1853 participants aged 30 - 45 years. The participants completed a self-reported questionnaire that included items on leisure time, commuting and habi…
Effect of long-term leisure time physical activity on lean mass and fat mass in girls during adolescence.
2011
The purpose of this 7-yr prospective longitudinal study was to examine if the level and consistency of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) during adolescence affected the quantity and distribution of lean mass (LM) and fat mass (FM) at early adulthood. The study subjects were 202 Finnish girls who were 10–13 yr old at baseline. LM and FM of the total body (TB), arms, legs, and trunk were assessed by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Muscle cross-sectional area (mCSA) of the left leg was assessed by peripheral quantitative computed tomography. Scores of LTPA were obtained by questionnaire. Girls were divided into four groups comprising those with consistently low (GLL) or consistently hig…
Mapping Leisure across Borders
2013
Leisure has become an important domain in sociological research. While time is often spent in daily “pressing” activities, leisure time, in its multifaceted aspects, is rather oriented to convey new answers for individual and collective needs. Such answers are an important field for leisure studies as well as for the sociological questions connected with leisure. For instance, in developed countries, some of these answers concern the ways in which leisure may be spent in “the best way possible for me”, or “for my family”, or “for me with my friends”, hence focusing on it as a new basic human need/desire oriented to foster self-fulfillment. However, this idea of leisure as self-fulfillment m…
CONSUMARE/INVESTIRE IL TEMPO LIBERO. FORME E PRATICHE DEL LEISURE TIME NELLA POSTMODERNITA'
2011
Il volume analizza le forme e le pratiche di consumo e di investimento del tempo libero nella postmodernità, evidenziandone i successivi cambiamenti in relazione al divenire della società e del mercato. I saggi raccolti esaminano il ruolo delle emozioni nel tempo libero, l’importanza del leisure time nella costruzione dell’identità, il rapporto tra gli spazi che vengono a questo dedicati e il lavoro, le politiche pubbliche implementate in favore di una sua “equilibrata” diffusione. E ancora, le caratteristiche e il significato delle modalità di intrattenimento visive e uditive (la Rete, il cinema, lo sport in tv, la musica pop), e delle attività all’aperto: per concludere con interventi rel…
Introduction: McDonaldization, Ikeaization, Appleization of Leisure. Is it Cool Enough?
2012
Recent studies on leisure time and the relationship between work and free time highlight two paradoxes that modern advanced societies have to face (Glorieux, Laurijssen, Minnen and van Tienoven 2010). On the one hand, we notice a significant reduction in the number of hours dedicated to working activities and an increase of the hours devoted to leisure activities and activities done in a non-working context and time. This constant lack of time contributes to spreading the perception of pressure on daily life (Gershuny 2000; Goodin, Rice, Bittman and Saunders 2005; Robinson and Godbey 1997) especially in women1 (Freysinger and Flannery 1992). On the other hand, while productivity and wealth …
To Have Fun for Sharing, to Share for Having Fun: Meanings and Practices of Leisure in Italy in a Time of Crisis
2016
In the period between 2008 and 2015, Italy has undergone a severe economic crisis derived from an on-going process of low economic growth, employment shortage, new social urgencies. These phenomena have been accompanied by a significant (and in some ways extremely innovating) change in people’s lifestyles and modes of consuming leisure time. As a matter of fact, a larger attention has been paid to the “quality” of leisure time, considered as a time to share, to create and re-discover authentic social relationships whose quality is precisely determined by the level of involvement in practices shared with one’s own social circle. The paper intends to offer some empirical evidence, taken from …
Libero, liberato, liberatorio. I mutamenti del leisure time tra modernità e postmodernità
2012
Per quanto si tratti di una dimensione della vita quotidiana sempre meno nettamente distinguibile da quella dell’impegno lavorativo, è a tutti evidente come anche il tempo libero costituisce una risorsa. Risorsa che, come tutte le altre continua ad essere non equamente distribuita. Proprio a causa della contrazione dei tempi e di una organizzazione quotidiana spesso vincolata ad una cronemica stringente, sono sempre di più le persone che preferiscono “consumare” il tempo libero a disposizione – in attività, ad esempio, poco impegnative - che “investirlo” in attività anche più gratificanti a medio-lungo termine, ma certamente più impegnative. Di questo, ed altro, trattiamo in questo breve co…