Attribute Factors Associated With Work/Leisure Perceptions

Abstract

As a departure from previous approaches to the study of work/leisure definitions, perceptions of work and leisure were studied with respect to an activity relatively consistent in terms of task characteristics (high school and college/university basketball). Task attributes which distinguished perceptions of involvement as work, leisure or both were examined, with effects observed for scholarship, gender and year in school. The results are consistent with previous work in the area of intrinsic motivation in that when task factors are held relatively constant, the distinction between perception of participation in sport as work or leisure can be differentiated along the lines of intrinsic/extrinsic motivation.

KEYWORDS:

• Leisure attributes
• leisure perceptions
• intrinsic motivation
• work and leisure