Need for Closure and Youths' Leisure Time Preferences

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ID13664706
AuthorsIris Vermeir (0000-0003-0440-1381, Hogeschool Ghent, Ghent University, corresponding author), Maggie Geuens (0000-0001-6535-7260, Ghent University, Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School)
Year2006
Volume98
Issue2
Pages463-476
Publication date2006-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePsychological Reports (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2466/pr0.98.2.463-476
PMID16796103
OpenAlexW1567723002
LanguageEN
References cited28

The Need for Closure is an individual characteristic which may help explain individual differences in engagement in leisure activities. Both a leisure engagement inventory and a validated Dutch version of the Need for Closure Scale were administered to a convenient sample of 1,035 young adults ages 15 to 24 years of whom 552 were female. Leisure engagement was hypothesized to differ for groups differing in Need for Closure. More specifically, youngsters who score high (versus low) on Need for Closure engaged more in structured, cognitively effortless, and predictable leisure activities like shopping for fun and going to the cinema, while young adults scoring low (versus high) on Need for Closure more often participated in unstructured, unpredictable, cognitively effortful or challenging leisure activities like going to a party, a pub, or a pop concert, idly lazing away, visiting or hosting friends, attending an evening class and playing computer games

Class (philosophy · Closure (psychology · Developmental psychology · Evening · Leisure activity · Leisure time · Physical activity · Sample (material · Scale (ratio · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Computer Science · Flow Experience in Various Fields · Medicine · Psychology · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Social Psychology

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