Leisure Activity and Affect Scales

Item

Title

Leisure Activity and Affect Scales

Description

David F. Putnam Science Center, Room 282

Physical leisure activities, e.g., participation in sports, have been shown to reduce the severity of depression and anxiety and to improve life satisfaction in college students and adults (e.g., Maher, Doersken, Elavsky, Hyde, Pincus, Ram, and Conroy, 2012 and Martinsen, 2008). Contrarily, sedentary leisure activities, e.g., watching television, have been shown to increase anxiety and depression and reduce life satisfaction (Maher, Doersken, Elavsky, and Conroy, 2014). Dedication to leisure activity is a measurement of time spent on, thus level of involvement with, a leisure activity. This level of involvement is not well-studied in the above effects but may be an important, if not the most important factor, in all of these effects. This project will examine the role of leisure activity dedication as well as specific personality characteristics in self-reported depression, anxiety, and satisfaction with life by having 180 Keene State College Students fill out a leisure activity questionnaire, the NEO Personality Inventory, Beck?s Depression Inventory, and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. It is expected that those with high dedication to leisure activity will have lower scores on depression and anxiety and higher satisfaction with life.

Donna Viveiros

Contributor

Keene State College

Creator

Norman Valley

Date

2016-04-09

Identifier

https://commons.keene.edu/s/KSCArchive/item/21034

Language

en_US

Subject

Psychology

Type

Presentation

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Item sets

AEC 2016 School of Sciences and Social Sciences

Site pages

School of Sciences and Social Sciences