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MEANINGS OF LEISURE FOR LATER-LIFE NEVER-MARRIED, CHILDLESS WOMEN

Jump, Merrin E
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1107626109

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2005, Master of Science, Miami University, Physical Education, Health, and Sport Studies.
This paper reports on the meanings of leisure for seven later-life, never-married, childless women. The study is qualitative, using semi-structured, open-ended interviews to explore the meanings and perceptions of leisure for this group of women living in the same Midwestern city. Interview data were analyzed via analytic coding (Lofland & Lofland, 1995). Analysis of the interviews indicated that the women varied in their experiences of being single and never having children. That is, the contexts of these women’s lives and leisure differed and shaped how they participated in leisure. Further, these women reported that leisure held a variety of meanings for them including self worth, nurturance, challenge, that which is not required, time away/escape, and constraint. Most striking in the results is that the meanings of leisure for later-life, never-married, childless women is not that different from the meanings of leisure for ever-married (i.e., currently married, divorced, or widowed) women. The implications of these findings for future research and practice, as well as study limitations, are also discussed.
Valeria Freysinger (Advisor)
93 p.
Women's Studies
Women's leisure; Never-married; Childless

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  • Jump, M. E. (2005). MEANINGS OF LEISURE FOR LATER-LIFE NEVER-MARRIED, CHILDLESS WOMEN [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1107626109

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jump, Merrin. MEANINGS OF LEISURE FOR LATER-LIFE NEVER-MARRIED, CHILDLESS WOMEN. 2005. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1107626109.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jump, Merrin. "MEANINGS OF LEISURE FOR LATER-LIFE NEVER-MARRIED, CHILDLESS WOMEN." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1107626109

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