REC100 Lecture 3: rec 100 Boredom and Flow
25 Nov 2018
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Connected to a lack of meaningful and involving leisure pursuits. Our satisfaction with an experience determines whether or not we will continue with the experience. We need to know how people construe, experience, and appraise what they do in time of leisure and to do so we need to consider three approaches: Identifies characteristics that lead people to define an activity, setting or experien as leisure. Not focused on what someone participated in, but what they enjoyed about it. Results: intense involvement, escape from every day reality. Examines the quality of what people experience during leisure. Behaviour may change when people know they are being observed. Difficult because variety of ways people can remember which are not accurate. Flow: the creative moment when a person is completely involved in an activity for its own sake - matching participant skills with challenges. Ways to get a sense of what people do in order to be satisfied:
