Donna E Little
Biographic Data
| ID | 5857977 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna E Little |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna E |
| FAMILY NAME | Little |
| SIGNATURE | LITTLE D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waikato |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Self-Determination Theory as a Framework for Understanding Women's Psychological Well-Being Outcomes from Leisure-Time Physical Activity
Self-determination theory (SDT) is used as a framework to understand how women's psychological well-being is influenced by participation in leisure-time physical activity and the social context in which activity occurs. Data were collected during in-depth semi-structured interviews with 20 participants and analyzed using constant comparison. Findings indicate women's well-being can be enhanced through casual participation in leisure-time physical…
The Nature of Nature: How New Zealand Women in Middle to Later Life Experience Nature-Based Leisure
This article explores how women in middle to later life from Aotearoa-New Zealand understand and experience nature in the context of their outdoor leisure. Using a qualitative gender-informed methodology, multiple interviews were conducted with 11 women. Three key themes were revealed: First, nature was more than words, with women transgressing mechanistic conceptions of nature. Second, nature was understood as a sensory experience, defined by th…
The Solo Female Travel Experience: Exploring the ‘Geography of Women's Fear’
Increasingly, it is recognised that the qualities of human experience are informed not only by the physical world, but also by our understandings of the social constructs that shape our realities. This broader way of thinking allows a conception of space as metaphorical and relational, rather than merely as a physical location or a singularly definable absolute. Drawing from leisure theory on constraints, feminist discourses on leisure/tourism, a…
Conceptions of Leisure Constraints Negotiation: A Response to the Schneider and Wilhelm Stanis Coping Model
Qualitative Insights into Leisure as a Spiritual Experience
This study explored lived, leisure experiences for 24 self-selected individuals who identified having experienced leisure that was spiritual. Using a phenomenological approach, the study revealed complex descriptions of these experiences where individuals simultaneously felt, acted, thought and were aware. Analysis of the data indicated that spiritual experiences could occur in a range of leisure contexts, could be triggered by catalysts such as …
A “Relative Escape”? The Impact of Constraints on Women Who Travel Solo
Women in contemporary Western society have increased options, resources, and opportunities to access a greater array of tourism and leisure choices. Yet the freedoms women have to consume these choices, and to access satisfying leisure and travel experiences, may be constrained by their social and gendered location as females. Leisure-based research has shown that women tend to be more highly and intensely constrained in their leisure pursuits, p…
Intergenerational opportunity—the impact of a community of women on encouraging physical activity
Though modern society is often criticised for promoting the selfish and the individual, the notion of community still exists. We remain informed by those around us and we continue to find or seek persons who represent behaviours, actions, values or beliefs that resonate within ourselves (Martin & Sugarman, 1999). This paper examines the impacts a community of women can have on encouraging others to participate in physical activity. Based on the r…
Adventure and the Gender Gap: Acknowledging Diversity of Experience
Traditionally, descriptions of adventure recreation have tended to incorporate a limited range of physically isolated and challenging activities (Attarian, 1991; Ewert, 1986). More recently, the concept of adventure has been used quite broadly within the leisure field (e.g. the 'adventure' of visiting nature; tourist promotions of 'adventurous' fun), but popular media portrayals of adventure continue to promote the extreme and remote. While these…
Women who RAW! Programming for women's participation in adventure based pursuits
Numerous constraints have been identified over recent years as impeding women's participation in leisure. Although these limitations have been recognised, and the benefits of participation acknowledged, the role of providers and policy makers in reducing the impacts of constraints has been less clear. This article examines one local government initiative to encourage women's participation in a range of adventure-based physical recreation pursuits…
First year students’ experience of learning: How do our future recreation activity leaders learn
Teaching within a tertiary institution reveals that many students are able to adopt a behaviourist approach to learning. That is, they seek to learn in order to ‘know the facts’ and to be able to apply relevant processes to set situations. However, for students to become good practitioners in their fields and develop work-based skills, they need to engage actively with professional content and be able to apply learning in different contexts. This…
Women and Adventure Recreation: Reconstructing Leisure Constraints and Adventure Experiences to Negotiate Continuing Participation
This paper presents results from a study of women with a history of participation in adventure recreation. Semi-structured in-depth interviews and 6-month activity diaries were gathered from 42 women involved in adventure pursuits. Qualitative analysis revealed that while the women experienced varying sources of constraint similar to findings in previous leisure research, they could also successfully negotiate these constraints by restructuring t…
Negotiating Adventure Recreation: How Women Can Access Satisfying Adventure Experiences Throughout Their Lives
Since the mid 1980's, research on women's leisure has attempted to measure and describe the extent to which females leisure participation is constrained and the forms these constraints take. More recently, research has begun to focus on the ways individuals negotiate these limitations. This paper reports on research which builds on these latter studies by describing and discussing women's experiences of adventure recreation from the perspective o…
Women and Adventure Recreation: Reconstructing Leisure Constraints and Adventure Experiences to Negotiate Continuing Participation
This paper presents results from a study of women with a history of participation in adventure recreation. Semi-structured in-depth interviews and 6-month activity diaries were gathered from 42 women involved in adventure pursuits. Qualitative analysis revealed that while the women experienced varying sources of constraint similar to findings in previous leisure research, they could also successfully negotiate these constraints by restructuring t…
Qualitative Insights into Leisure as a Spiritual Experience
This study explored lived, leisure experiences for 24 self-selected individuals who identified having experienced leisure that was spiritual. Using a phenomenological approach, the study revealed complex descriptions of these experiences where individuals simultaneously felt, acted, thought and were aware. Analysis of the data indicated that spiritual experiences could occur in a range of leisure contexts, could be triggered by catalysts such as …
Self-Determination Theory as a Framework for Understanding Women's Psychological Well-Being Outcomes from Leisure-Time Physical Activity
Self-determination theory (SDT) is used as a framework to understand how women's psychological well-being is influenced by participation in leisure-time physical activity and the social context in which activity occurs. Data were collected during in-depth semi-structured interviews with 20 participants and analyzed using constant comparison. Findings indicate women's well-being can be enhanced through casual participation in leisure-time physical…
Adventure and the Gender Gap: Acknowledging Diversity of Experience
Traditionally, descriptions of adventure recreation have tended to incorporate a limited range of physically isolated and challenging activities (Attarian, 1991; Ewert, 1986). More recently, the concept of adventure has been used quite broadly within the leisure field (e.g. the 'adventure' of visiting nature; tourist promotions of 'adventurous' fun), but popular media portrayals of adventure continue to promote the extreme and remote. While these…
The Nature of Nature: How New Zealand Women in Middle to Later Life Experience Nature-Based Leisure
This article explores how women in middle to later life from Aotearoa-New Zealand understand and experience nature in the context of their outdoor leisure. Using a qualitative gender-informed methodology, multiple interviews were conducted with 11 women. Three key themes were revealed: First, nature was more than words, with women transgressing mechanistic conceptions of nature. Second, nature was understood as a sensory experience, defined by th…
Conceptions of Leisure Constraints Negotiation: A Response to the Schneider and Wilhelm Stanis Coping Model
Negotiating Adventure Recreation: How Women Can Access Satisfying Adventure Experiences Throughout Their Lives
Since the mid 1980's, research on women's leisure has attempted to measure and describe the extent to which females leisure participation is constrained and the forms these constraints take. More recently, research has begun to focus on the ways individuals negotiate these limitations. This paper reports on research which builds on these latter studies by describing and discussing women's experiences of adventure recreation from the perspective o…
Women who RAW! Programming for women's participation in adventure based pursuits
Numerous constraints have been identified over recent years as impeding women's participation in leisure. Although these limitations have been recognised, and the benefits of participation acknowledged, the role of providers and policy makers in reducing the impacts of constraints has been less clear. This article examines one local government initiative to encourage women's participation in a range of adventure-based physical recreation pursuits…
Negotiating Adventure Recreation: How Women Can Access Satisfying Adventure Experiences Throughout Their Lives
Since the mid 1980's, research on women's leisure has attempted to measure and describe the extent to which females leisure participation is constrained and the forms these constraints take. More recently, research has begun to focus on the ways individuals negotiate these limitations. This paper reports on research which builds on these latter studies by describing and discussing women's experiences of adventure recreation from the perspective o…
Women and Adventure Recreation: Reconstructing Leisure Constraints and Adventure Experiences to Negotiate Continuing Participation
This paper presents results from a study of women with a history of participation in adventure recreation. Semi-structured in-depth interviews and 6-month activity diaries were gathered from 42 women involved in adventure pursuits. Qualitative analysis revealed that while the women experienced varying sources of constraint similar to findings in previous leisure research, they could also successfully negotiate these constraints by restructuring t…
Women who RAW! Programming for women's participation in adventure based pursuits
Numerous constraints have been identified over recent years as impeding women's participation in leisure. Although these limitations have been recognised, and the benefits of participation acknowledged, the role of providers and policy makers in reducing the impacts of constraints has been less clear. This article examines one local government initiative to encourage women's participation in a range of adventure-based physical recreation pursuits…
First year students’ experience of learning: How do our future recreation activity leaders learn
Teaching within a tertiary institution reveals that many students are able to adopt a behaviourist approach to learning. That is, they seek to learn in order to ‘know the facts’ and to be able to apply relevant processes to set situations. However, for students to become good practitioners in their fields and develop work-based skills, they need to engage actively with professional content and be able to apply learning in different contexts. This…
A “Relative Escape”? The Impact of Constraints on Women Who Travel Solo
Women in contemporary Western society have increased options, resources, and opportunities to access a greater array of tourism and leisure choices. Yet the freedoms women have to consume these choices, and to access satisfying leisure and travel experiences, may be constrained by their social and gendered location as females. Leisure-based research has shown that women tend to be more highly and intensely constrained in their leisure pursuits, p…
Intergenerational opportunity—the impact of a community of women on encouraging physical activity
Though modern society is often criticised for promoting the selfish and the individual, the notion of community still exists. We remain informed by those around us and we continue to find or seek persons who represent behaviours, actions, values or beliefs that resonate within ourselves (Martin & Sugarman, 1999). This paper examines the impacts a community of women can have on encouraging others to participate in physical activity. Based on the r…
Adventure and the Gender Gap: Acknowledging Diversity of Experience
Traditionally, descriptions of adventure recreation have tended to incorporate a limited range of physically isolated and challenging activities (Attarian, 1991; Ewert, 1986). More recently, the concept of adventure has been used quite broadly within the leisure field (e.g. the 'adventure' of visiting nature; tourist promotions of 'adventurous' fun), but popular media portrayals of adventure continue to promote the extreme and remote. While these…
Conceptions of Leisure Constraints Negotiation: A Response to the Schneider and Wilhelm Stanis Coping Model
Qualitative Insights into Leisure as a Spiritual Experience
This study explored lived, leisure experiences for 24 self-selected individuals who identified having experienced leisure that was spiritual. Using a phenomenological approach, the study revealed complex descriptions of these experiences where individuals simultaneously felt, acted, thought and were aware. Analysis of the data indicated that spiritual experiences could occur in a range of leisure contexts, could be triggered by catalysts such as …
The Solo Female Travel Experience: Exploring the ‘Geography of Women's Fear’
Increasingly, it is recognised that the qualities of human experience are informed not only by the physical world, but also by our understandings of the social constructs that shape our realities. This broader way of thinking allows a conception of space as metaphorical and relational, rather than merely as a physical location or a singularly definable absolute. Drawing from leisure theory on constraints, feminist discourses on leisure/tourism, a…
The Nature of Nature: How New Zealand Women in Middle to Later Life Experience Nature-Based Leisure
This article explores how women in middle to later life from Aotearoa-New Zealand understand and experience nature in the context of their outdoor leisure. Using a qualitative gender-informed methodology, multiple interviews were conducted with 11 women. Three key themes were revealed: First, nature was more than words, with women transgressing mechanistic conceptions of nature. Second, nature was understood as a sensory experience, defined by th…
Self-Determination Theory as a Framework for Understanding Women's Psychological Well-Being Outcomes from Leisure-Time Physical Activity
Self-determination theory (SDT) is used as a framework to understand how women's psychological well-being is influenced by participation in leisure-time physical activity and the social context in which activity occurs. Data were collected during in-depth semi-structured interviews with 20 participants and analyzed using constant comparison. Findings indicate women's well-being can be enhanced through casual participation in leisure-time physical…
Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (7 works) · Recreation (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (5 works)