Leisure, Health and Well-Being

Zsuzsanna Benkő is Head of the Institute of Applied Health Sciences and Health Promotion at the Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education, University of Szeged, Hungary. She has a pioneering and leading role in the theory, methodology and institutionalisation of Health Promotion in Hungary, including a special focus on leisure.Ishwar Modi is the founding father of leisure studies in India. He is Director of India International Institute of Social Sciences and a member of the Executive Committee of ISA and has also been re-elected President of ISA Research Committee on Sociology of Leisure. He is also a Senior Fellow and Founding Member of the World Leisure Academy. Klára Tarkó is Vice-Head of the Institute of Applied Health Sciences and Health Promotion, and Vice-Dean for Education at the Juhász Gyula Faculty of Education, University of Szeged, Hungary. She was elected vice-president of the Executive Committee of ISA RC13 Sociology of Leisure (2014-2018).

• Healthy leisure and Leisureful health - Introductory “State of the Art” byZsuzsanna Benkő.- Part 1. “Go West”.- 1.1. Ethical Aspects of Leisure Choices and the Autonomous Chooser by Colin Wringe.- 1.2. ‘This Side of Paradise’: The Role of On-Line Fandom in the Construction of Leisure, Wellbeing and the Lifeworld by Karl Spracklen.- 1.3. Lunchboxes, Health, Leisure and Well-being: Analysing the connections by Vicki Harman and Benedetta Cappellini.- 1.4. Wellness customers and their needs by Peter Kalkowski and Gerd Paul.- 1.5. Leisure activities in care homes – how do they relate to the well being of the elderly? by Dietmar Goelitz, Christine Trenkamp and Peter Paulus.- Part 2. The „Visegrad Four“ .- 2.1. Leisure and Pleasure: Healthy, Useful, Pleasant – Why Don’t We Do? by György Bárdos and Júlia Ábrahám.- 2.2. Trapped by sense of comfort – leisure time consumption habits from the aspect of economic psychology by László L. Lippai.- 2.3. Associations of sedentary lifestyle and negative mood state with the risk of breast cancer by Melinda Látos, Zita Sándor, Pálma Kriston, Rózsa Havancsák, Zoltán Horváth, Attila Paszt, Zsolt Simonka, György Lázár, Márta Csabai.- 2.4. The role of leisure in prevention and treatment of addiction by Katalin Lacsán, Zoltán Arany and Attila Farkas.- 2.5. Rethinking the relationship between sport, recreation and tourism byFerenc Győri and László Balogh.- 2.6. Lifestyle research among upper-primary and secondary school pupils in Hungary, Southern Great Plains Region (2012) byKlára Tarkó and Zsuzsanna Benkő.- 2.7. Youth & Leisure Time by Adam Nagy, Levente Székely and Márta Barbarics.- 2.8. Facebook-diagnostics: detection of mental hygiene problems based on online traces by György Csepeli and Richárd Nagyfi.- 2.9. Leisure time activities and lifelong learning by Iva Jedličková.- 2.10. Patterns of Leisure Time Activities in the Context of aYouth Festival in Romania by Kálmán Ercsei, Zita Kiss, Réka Plungor, Júlia Szabó and Valér Veres.- 2.11. Ethnicity, leisure and popular culture byJustyna Kijonka.- 2.12. Leisure as a mean of older people’s integration (On the example of Silesian Voivodeship inhabitants) by Agata Zygmunt.- Part 3„OH, East is East … “.- 3.1. Leisure, Health and Well-Being: The Ultimate Quest of Humanity by Ishwar Modi.- 3.2. Lifestyle, Health and Leisure: A Study of the Social Structure of Tai Phakes of Assam, India. by Pranjal Sarma.- 3.3 Leisure Time Activities among Elderly in India by Smita Suresh Awachar.- 3.4. Professional English language study as a creative leisure time by Natalya Malygina and Catherine Shiriaeva.- 3.5. On the Value of Park and Public Health by Ma Huidi.- 3.6. Role of Leisure Acts and Mental Health by Anju Beniwal.-Epilogue by The Editors

“It would definitely be a useful book to direct undergraduate leisure studies students to when wanting to show them the global and theoretical diversity of leisure understandings and research.” (Janette Young, Hazel Maxwell and Nicole Peel, Annals of Leisure Research, August 24, 2020)