Projectbased Leisure Toward Personal Wellbeing And Community Involvement Robert A Stebbins by Robert A Stebbins instant download after payment.

For many people, there are times in everyday life that are available for leisure, though not large enough or frequent enough to enable pursuing a serious hobby, amateur activity, or major volunteer role. Some people fill these temporal interstices—the small gaps between work, non-work obligations, and enduring casual and serious leisure interests—with project-based leisure (PBL). These activities, which may be spontaneous, help round out our leisure lifestyle. PBL is a short-term, reasonably complicated, one-off, or occasional, though infrequent, creative, or inventive undertaking carried out in free time, or time free of disagreeable obligation. Such leisure may require considerable planning, effort, and sometimes skill or knowledge (Stebbins 2005). Yet, it is not serious leisure nor initially intended to develop into such.
In other words, PBL contributes to our subjective well-being, though doing so more modestly than serious leisure and occupational devotion. Without it we either resort in these interstices to casual leisure or return to life’s obligations (i.e., disagreeable work and non-work activities). In these options, subjective well-being is reduced accordingly. Note that project-based leisure cannot, by definition, refer to projects executed as part of a person’s serious leisure. Examples include routinely mounting community star nights as an amateur astronomer or model train displays as a hobbyist collector.