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Caution – Children at Play
Caution – Children at Play
This chapter explores the usefulness of major perspectives in psychology and social psychology for understanding leisure experiences. This chapter will:
- Distinguish between the life cycle and the life course
- Identify the traditional perspectives of psycho-analytic, behaviourist and humanistic approaches to play and childhood
- Apply the concept of ‘flow’ to diverse leisure experiences
- Explain the contribution that social psychology can make to understanding leisure.
Life Cycle and the Life Course
The previous chapter has outlined three distinctive timeframes – the life time of the individual, the epoch of generations and the era of societies. Individuals take for granted the immediacy of the ‘Here and Now’, as they constantly make sense of their lives, of what other people are saying and doing, how ...
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