Leisure Experience and Human Development: A Dialectical Interpretation Book

	List of Tables and Figures
	Preface
1	The Many Faces of Leisure	1
	Leisure as Context	3
	Manifestations of Preferred Experience	5
	The Place of Leisure in the Study of Development	10
	Plan of This Book	11
2	Development, Motivation, and Leisure	16
	Sources of Development	17
	Intrinsic Motivation: The Push from Inside	21
	Leisure and Development	26
3	Changes in Leisure Behavior over the Life Span	33
	Life Span Changes	33
	Childhood: The Emergence of Leisure	39
	Adolescence: Finding a Self to Be Enjoyed	47
	Adulthood: Role-Determined Leisure	49
	Negative Life Events	56
4	Socialization Through Play and Leisure Activity	62
	Socialization	62
	The Power of Play	67
	Structured Activities and Serious Leisure	68
	Emotional Development	69
	Social Competence, Morality, and Relatedness	71
	The Development of Personal Competence	76
	Extracurricular Activity	77
	Deviance and Conformity	81
	Unequal Playing Fields	83
	Overaccommodation, Reproduction, and Resistance	84
	Socialization into Adulthood	85
5	Leisure Experience and the Formation of Identity	93
	Dimensions and Dialectics of Identity	94
	The Relevance of Leisure in Identity Formation	102
	The Derailment of Identity Formation in Leisure	110
	Leisure Identity and Stabilization	113
6	Personal Expressiveness and the Transcendence of Negative Life Events	120
	Negative Life Events	121
	The Relevance of Leisure in Negative Life Events	124
	Negative Life Events: Loss of Leisure, Loss of Self	127
	Leisure Restored and Lives Restoried	131
7	Self-Renewal and Generativity in Middle Age	139
	Individuation and Self-Renewal	141
	Leisure as a Context for Individuation and Self-Renewal	143
	Generativity	145
	Leisure as a Context for Generativity	146
	Reconsidering Generativity and Self-Renewal	151
	Optimizing Leisure for Self-Renewal and Generativity	152
8	Engagement, Disengagement, and Integration in Later Life	159
	Leisure and Aging Well	160
	Ego Integrity	164
	Engagement	167
	Disengagement	171
	Integration	173
	Retirement	175
	Index	183