Leisure activities of adolescent schoolchildren

A knowledge of adolescents' leisure time activities and their interests are important for understanding the adolescents' social world and their individual needs. The aim of the study is to measure the interest and participation in various leisure activities and to find the correlation between interest and participation. The study also aimed to find whether a gender difference exists in leisure time pursuits. The subjects in the study were 211 school-going adolescents from an urban disadvantaged area of Dublin, Ireland. The results revealed a high correlation between participation and interest in leisure pursuits and a considerable difference between the sexes.