Kenneth E Mobily
Biographic Data
| ID | 5857554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth E Mobily |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth E |
| FAMILY NAME | Mobily |
| SIGNATURE | MOBILY K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Disability, belonging, and inclusive leisure
This essay briefly chronicles a history of using binaries and disability/marginalized groups to stigmatize and disenfranchise, a practice that continues today. The time has come to change narratives about persons with disability by exposing the cause of most disabilities – society. Several authors maintain that disability is the human trait that should unify instead of separate. Strategies for changing the narrative are suggested, with particular…
Immigration restriction, ‘Americanization’ and the Playground Movement
How did Joseph Lee hold to the contradictory ideas of immigration restriction and a willingness to use playgrounds as a means for assimilating immigrants into American cultural and civic traditions; how did he reconcile them in his own mind? The political climate and context of the Progressive Era are described to set the stage for the events Lee involved himself in – immigration restriction as a negative eugenic practice and ‘Americanization’ of…
Eugenics and the playground movement
The purpose of this study was to scrutinize the Playground Movement through the lens of eugenics. The theoretical relationship was clear because of the dominant influence of inheritance-driven theories that stressed the role of play in developing desirable traits. Progressive Era emphasis on race betterment provided an optimal environment for the use of eugenic practices to correct flawed members of society; the emphasis on guided play satisfied …
Work, retirement and working out
The purpose of the study was to determine how retired women interpreted their exercise with respect to defining physical activity versus activity in general, identifying why they began and continued exercise, and knowing how much was ‘enough’ exercise. The results suggested four main themes. First, social support and socializing were important aspects of exercise that helped women complete any given session and ‘stick with it’. Second, women said…
Should US recreation therapy be replicated globally? An opportunity to do better. Part II
The purpose of this paper is to challenge the US version of recreation for persons with disabilities. The recreation therapy (RT) profession has been one of the leading providers of recreation for persons with disabilities, but recently has endorsed an exclusively clinical approach to service. The paper cites evidence that the US version of the RT profession is self-serving and obsolete. The paper explores the contradictory American ideologies of…
Deconstruction of TR/RT
The purpose of this paper is to deconstruct the medical model approach to therapeutic recreation/recreation therapy (TR/RT) in the USA using a disability studies approach. The paper begins by identifying the trend in TR/RT towards defining itself more narrowly, more closely with the medical model, likely a result of increasing pressure from managed care in the USA. Next, the medical model is exposed as a contradiction to the expressed ethics of t…
Walking among older adults
Walking among older adults is the most practical and feasible option for regular leisure-time exercise in the USA and internationally. For older adults, walking represents a beneficial and relatively safe exercise alterative, and may well be the most accessible form of leisure-time physical activity available to seniors. This investigation was designed to identify significant characteristics of regular walkers and variables that predict regular w…
Language, play and work among elderly persons
The general purpose of the study was to ascertain the meanings of play and work among elderly subjects. Subjects were randomly assigned either play or work as stimulus words and asked to write down other words they associated with the stimulus word during a one-minute trial. Results suggested that play and work were different ideas for the group of elderly subjects. Play was best defined as an enjoyable, voluntary activity often associated with a…
Leisure Repertoire in a Sample of Midwestern Elderly
The popular theoretical framework for explaining motivation to exercise is based on the health benefits that result. Instead, we argue that exercise behavior is intrinsically motivated and part of the subject's leisure repertoire. Activities capable of producing perceptions of internal or external competence comprise each subject's leisure repertoire. To test the validity of the concept of leisure repertoire positive correlations were predicted b…
Use of recreation majors as research subjects
A study was conducted to examine whether college undergraduates majoring in recreation would be unbiased subjects for leisure research studies. It was hypothesized that recreation majors (n = 762) would be significantly more positive than nonrecreation majors (n = 363) in their self‐reports of leisure‐related attitudes and behavior. Five dependent variables (leisure boredom, intrinsic leisure motivation, leisure ethic, leisure satisfaction, and l…
Semantics of Play and Work Among Children
The purpose of the study is to determine the semantic meanings of play and work using Noble's association theory based methodology. The words given by subjects in response to the presentation of either play or work as a stimulus word were understood to represent the meaning of play or work. Subjects were 423 grade school and high school children recruited from a Midwestern (U. S.) university community. Subjects were randomly assigned a stimulus w…
Meanings of recreation and leisure among adolescents
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the validity of popular definitions of recreation and leisure. High school students volunteered to participate in the study. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of four possible stimulus word by response method groups. Subjects responded to either ‘recreation’ or ‘leisure’ using a production method or a sit and think method. Findings revealed that subjects defined ‘leisure’ as pleasure (and related te…
Factors Associated with the Aging Leisure Repertoire
This study describes factors related to the leisure repertoires of a large population of rural elderly. Age, self-perceived health, leisure attitude, life satisfaction and sex were the most influential factors with regard to the size of subjects' leisure repertoires. Though associations between education, exercise attitude and marital status and leisure repertoire were statistically significant, none accounted for even one percent of the variabil…
Meanings of recreation and leisure among adolescents
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the validity of popular definitions of recreation and leisure. High school students volunteered to participate in the study. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of four possible stimulus word by response method groups. Subjects responded to either ‘recreation’ or ‘leisure’ using a production method or a sit and think method. Findings revealed that subjects defined ‘leisure’ as pleasure (and related te…
Leisure Repertoire in a Sample of Midwestern Elderly
The popular theoretical framework for explaining motivation to exercise is based on the health benefits that result. Instead, we argue that exercise behavior is intrinsically motivated and part of the subject's leisure repertoire. Activities capable of producing perceptions of internal or external competence comprise each subject's leisure repertoire. To test the validity of the concept of leisure repertoire positive correlations were predicted b…
Walking among older adults
Walking among older adults is the most practical and feasible option for regular leisure-time exercise in the USA and internationally. For older adults, walking represents a beneficial and relatively safe exercise alterative, and may well be the most accessible form of leisure-time physical activity available to seniors. This investigation was designed to identify significant characteristics of regular walkers and variables that predict regular w…
Disability, belonging, and inclusive leisure
This essay briefly chronicles a history of using binaries and disability/marginalized groups to stigmatize and disenfranchise, a practice that continues today. The time has come to change narratives about persons with disability by exposing the cause of most disabilities – society. Several authors maintain that disability is the human trait that should unify instead of separate. Strategies for changing the narrative are suggested, with particular…
Immigration restriction, ‘Americanization’ and the Playground Movement
How did Joseph Lee hold to the contradictory ideas of immigration restriction and a willingness to use playgrounds as a means for assimilating immigrants into American cultural and civic traditions; how did he reconcile them in his own mind? The political climate and context of the Progressive Era are described to set the stage for the events Lee involved himself in – immigration restriction as a negative eugenic practice and ‘Americanization’ of…
Use of recreation majors as research subjects
A study was conducted to examine whether college undergraduates majoring in recreation would be unbiased subjects for leisure research studies. It was hypothesized that recreation majors (n = 762) would be significantly more positive than nonrecreation majors (n = 363) in their self‐reports of leisure‐related attitudes and behavior. Five dependent variables (leisure boredom, intrinsic leisure motivation, leisure ethic, leisure satisfaction, and l…
Eugenics and the playground movement
The purpose of this study was to scrutinize the Playground Movement through the lens of eugenics. The theoretical relationship was clear because of the dominant influence of inheritance-driven theories that stressed the role of play in developing desirable traits. Progressive Era emphasis on race betterment provided an optimal environment for the use of eugenic practices to correct flawed members of society; the emphasis on guided play satisfied …
Deconstruction of TR/RT
The purpose of this paper is to deconstruct the medical model approach to therapeutic recreation/recreation therapy (TR/RT) in the USA using a disability studies approach. The paper begins by identifying the trend in TR/RT towards defining itself more narrowly, more closely with the medical model, likely a result of increasing pressure from managed care in the USA. Next, the medical model is exposed as a contradiction to the expressed ethics of t…
Factors Associated with the Aging Leisure Repertoire
This study describes factors related to the leisure repertoires of a large population of rural elderly. Age, self-perceived health, leisure attitude, life satisfaction and sex were the most influential factors with regard to the size of subjects' leisure repertoires. Though associations between education, exercise attitude and marital status and leisure repertoire were statistically significant, none accounted for even one percent of the variabil…
Language, play and work among elderly persons
The general purpose of the study was to ascertain the meanings of play and work among elderly subjects. Subjects were randomly assigned either play or work as stimulus words and asked to write down other words they associated with the stimulus word during a one-minute trial. Results suggested that play and work were different ideas for the group of elderly subjects. Play was best defined as an enjoyable, voluntary activity often associated with a…
Semantics of Play and Work Among Children
The purpose of the study is to determine the semantic meanings of play and work using Noble's association theory based methodology. The words given by subjects in response to the presentation of either play or work as a stimulus word were understood to represent the meaning of play or work. Subjects were 423 grade school and high school children recruited from a Midwestern (U. S.) university community. Subjects were randomly assigned a stimulus w…
Factors Associated with the Aging Leisure Repertoire
This study describes factors related to the leisure repertoires of a large population of rural elderly. Age, self-perceived health, leisure attitude, life satisfaction and sex were the most influential factors with regard to the size of subjects' leisure repertoires. Though associations between education, exercise attitude and marital status and leisure repertoire were statistically significant, none accounted for even one percent of the variabil…
Meanings of recreation and leisure among adolescents
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the validity of popular definitions of recreation and leisure. High school students volunteered to participate in the study. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of four possible stimulus word by response method groups. Subjects responded to either ‘recreation’ or ‘leisure’ using a production method or a sit and think method. Findings revealed that subjects defined ‘leisure’ as pleasure (and related te…
Semantics of Play and Work Among Children
The purpose of the study is to determine the semantic meanings of play and work using Noble's association theory based methodology. The words given by subjects in response to the presentation of either play or work as a stimulus word were understood to represent the meaning of play or work. Subjects were 423 grade school and high school children recruited from a Midwestern (U. S.) university community. Subjects were randomly assigned a stimulus w…
Use of recreation majors as research subjects
A study was conducted to examine whether college undergraduates majoring in recreation would be unbiased subjects for leisure research studies. It was hypothesized that recreation majors (n = 762) would be significantly more positive than nonrecreation majors (n = 363) in their self‐reports of leisure‐related attitudes and behavior. Five dependent variables (leisure boredom, intrinsic leisure motivation, leisure ethic, leisure satisfaction, and l…
Language, play and work among elderly persons
The general purpose of the study was to ascertain the meanings of play and work among elderly subjects. Subjects were randomly assigned either play or work as stimulus words and asked to write down other words they associated with the stimulus word during a one-minute trial. Results suggested that play and work were different ideas for the group of elderly subjects. Play was best defined as an enjoyable, voluntary activity often associated with a…
Leisure Repertoire in a Sample of Midwestern Elderly
The popular theoretical framework for explaining motivation to exercise is based on the health benefits that result. Instead, we argue that exercise behavior is intrinsically motivated and part of the subject's leisure repertoire. Activities capable of producing perceptions of internal or external competence comprise each subject's leisure repertoire. To test the validity of the concept of leisure repertoire positive correlations were predicted b…
Walking among older adults
Walking among older adults is the most practical and feasible option for regular leisure-time exercise in the USA and internationally. For older adults, walking represents a beneficial and relatively safe exercise alterative, and may well be the most accessible form of leisure-time physical activity available to seniors. This investigation was designed to identify significant characteristics of regular walkers and variables that predict regular w…
Should US recreation therapy be replicated globally? An opportunity to do better. Part II
The purpose of this paper is to challenge the US version of recreation for persons with disabilities. The recreation therapy (RT) profession has been one of the leading providers of recreation for persons with disabilities, but recently has endorsed an exclusively clinical approach to service. The paper cites evidence that the US version of the RT profession is self-serving and obsolete. The paper explores the contradictory American ideologies of…
Deconstruction of TR/RT
The purpose of this paper is to deconstruct the medical model approach to therapeutic recreation/recreation therapy (TR/RT) in the USA using a disability studies approach. The paper begins by identifying the trend in TR/RT towards defining itself more narrowly, more closely with the medical model, likely a result of increasing pressure from managed care in the USA. Next, the medical model is exposed as a contradiction to the expressed ethics of t…
Eugenics and the playground movement
The purpose of this study was to scrutinize the Playground Movement through the lens of eugenics. The theoretical relationship was clear because of the dominant influence of inheritance-driven theories that stressed the role of play in developing desirable traits. Progressive Era emphasis on race betterment provided an optimal environment for the use of eugenic practices to correct flawed members of society; the emphasis on guided play satisfied …
Work, retirement and working out
The purpose of the study was to determine how retired women interpreted their exercise with respect to defining physical activity versus activity in general, identifying why they began and continued exercise, and knowing how much was ‘enough’ exercise. The results suggested four main themes. First, social support and socializing were important aspects of exercise that helped women complete any given session and ‘stick with it’. Second, women said…
Immigration restriction, ‘Americanization’ and the Playground Movement
How did Joseph Lee hold to the contradictory ideas of immigration restriction and a willingness to use playgrounds as a means for assimilating immigrants into American cultural and civic traditions; how did he reconcile them in his own mind? The political climate and context of the Progressive Era are described to set the stage for the events Lee involved himself in – immigration restriction as a negative eugenic practice and ‘Americanization’ of…
Disability, belonging, and inclusive leisure
This essay briefly chronicles a history of using binaries and disability/marginalized groups to stigmatize and disenfranchise, a practice that continues today. The time has come to change narratives about persons with disability by exposing the cause of most disabilities – society. Several authors maintain that disability is the human trait that should unify instead of separate. Strategies for changing the narrative are suggested, with particular…
Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Physical activity (5 works)