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Relationships among the practice of physical and sport activities, the leisure experience and Time Perspective are analyzed. Sample was integrated by 134 young (84 men and 54 women), aged 18 to 24. Data was collected with an online questionnaire, which included: (1) a Time Budget with the purpose of registering activities in daily life and valuing the leisure characteristics of these activities (time devoted, week frequency and perceptions of freedom of choice, satisfaction and appropriation); and (2) the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory, in order to know the incidence of its dimensions (past, present, and future). Results show that: youth who practices physical and sport activities as leisure show a Balanced Time Perspective; moreover, variables of leisure experience are related to present hedonist and past positive. These results put into manifest the need of considering the Time Perspective and the leisure experience in intervention programs addressed to promote and maintain physical and sport activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The influence of surrounding people in women's sport practice is analysed. The sample was made up of 636 women from Spain, aged between 15 and 64 (M = 38.36; SD = 11.51). The measurement instrument was an online survey with close-ended questions about the practice of sport-physical activities and the support of significant others (father, mother, brothers/sisters, best friends and workmates), which followed the Health Behaviour Survey (HBS; Wold, Aaró and Smith, 1994 -- versioned by Balaguer, 2000). Results show predominantly low levels of sport practice (1-2 days/week), with women aged 50-64 having the highest levels of practice (5-7 days/week). Concerning influences from the environment, it is noticeable that brothers/sisters, best friends and workmates who not only practice sport but also encourage women to practise it are more influential than parents; in particular, the presence of supportive friends increases with age. These data complement preceding studies, as well as suggest new research issues related to women's sport practice in Spain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the mid-twentieth century it became increasingly evident that traditional analytical tools of the economic, political and sociological theoris were insufficient to explain the new patterns of interaction and the multinational, transnational and supranational phenomena that overflowed the borders of the nation state. New realities constituted a higher plane of an interconnected world a structure of suprastatal interactions, which dynamics and effects demanded the formulation of a unified theory. Three broad approaches: the controversy about the clash of civilizations, the discussion on globalization and the theorists of risk society suggested the possibility of such theory. This paper addresses three attempts of formulation: 1). from an economic perspective (theories of development, dependence and the “world system"); 2). from a political standpoint (the “world polity" of the neo-institutionalists); and 3). from the sociological perspective (the “global society “ of Niklas Luhmann). Our conclusion is that against both the economistic and the political approaches, Niklas Luhmann offers a less unilateral and more complete theoretical solution by transferring to a higher global level the old concept of society whose borders have long been overwhelmed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Both leisure and free time activities have been considered important for self development as a psychosocial process (among others, Csikszentmihalyi & Kleiber, 1991; Cuenca, 2008a; Grossman & O'Connell, 2000; Kleiber, 1999; Munné & Codina, 1996, 2002; Wearing & Wearing, 1992). Putting into evidence the processes derived from the relationship between leisure/free time activities and self has been the purpose of the Sequential Qualitative Methodology (SQM; Codina, 1999, 2005a & b). This methodological strategy has made possible to show the complexity among free time, self and their relationships (Codina, 2004a & b; Codina & Pestana, 2008; Pestana, 2007; Pestana & Codina, 2005). As an example of the SQM potential of explanation, this contribution offers an empirical approximation to the self, based on M. M. Bakhtin's dialogical perspective (1961/2003a, 1974/2003b), and the complex aspects (non-linearity, fractality and fuzziness) described by F. Munné (1997a, 2000) in his model of the self. Empirical research about both Bakhtin and Munné proposals makes possible apprehending the relationships between a person's development and a free behavior. In a more general sense, the SQM contributes to underline the significance of freedom and selfhood in analyzing the contemporary subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]