Bonsai in the time of Covid
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2641601 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yazdan Mansourian (0000-0002-0130-5741, Charles Sturt University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cosmopolitan Civil Societies An Interdisciplinary Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1837-5391 • E-ISSN: 1837-5391 |
| Publisher | University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5130/ccs.v13.i2.7588 |
| OpenAlex | W3183305179 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
The study sought to find out to what extent engagement with serious leisure, in this case, bonsai growing, can help people deal with challenging times, such as a global pandemic. In particular, how bonsai enthusiasts use their hobbies to manage uncertainty and stress during the lockdown and how they have shared their lived experiences on this topic via social media. The researcher employed a user-generated contents analysis approach to address the questions and explored a collection of comments from a sample of the most visited bonsai videos posted during the pandemic. The serious leisure perspective has been used as a theoretical framework to conceptualise the data based on the qualities that differentiate serious leisure from casual leisure. The findings showed that engagement in this hobby helps bonsai enthusiasts to develop social connectedness and cope with their stress caused by the pandemic
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Casual · Hobby · Internet privacy · Pandemic · Political science · Social connectedness · Social media · Sociology · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Computer Science · Medicine · Psychology · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Artificial Intelligence
Qualitative Content Analysis
Older people and Covid‐19
What do we know about social media in tourism? A review
Hospitality and tourism industry amid Covid-19 pandemic
Practitioners’ Experiences of the Influence of Bonsai Art on Health
Effects of Visual Stimulation with Bonsai Trees on Adult Male Patients with Spinal Cord Injury
Serious Leisure
Leisure pursuits in South Africa as observed during the Covid-19 pandemic
Interpretation of leisure sports in the pandemic situation of Covid 19
Citizenship and leisure in pandemic times
Covid-19 and Leisure in the United States
Leisure will not be locked down – insights on leisure and Covid-19 from the Netherlands
Older Golfers
Leisure and wellbeing
Measuring Serious Leisure in Chess
Promoting Older Adults’ Physical Activity and Social Well-Being during Covid-19
Pandemic Precarity
Single Women’s Leisure during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Identity Affirmation through Leisure Activities
Yoga leisure and identity development of Chinese second-time mothers
Leisure engagement and subjective well-being
Motives for and Personal and Social Benefits of Airplane Piloting as a Serious Leisure Activity for Women
Social Relationships and Health
Social Relationships and Health Behavior Across the Life Course
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |