Leisure, Health and Well-Being

1. Healthy Leisure and Leisureful Health: Introductory ‘State of the Art’
Zsuzsanna Benkő

Part I. “Go West”

2. The Sea, the Sea … Historical and Sociological Perspectives on the Shaping of Seaside Leisure in Rural Wales
Gaye Heathcote

3. Ethical Aspects of Leisure Choices and the Autonomous Chooser
Colin Wringe

4. ‘This Side of Paradise’: The Role of Online Fandom in the Construction of Leisure, Well-Being and the Lifeworld
Karl Spracklen

5. Lunchboxes, Health, Leisure and Well-Being: Analysing the Connections
Vicki Harman, Benedetta Cappellini

6. Wellness Customers and Their Needs
Peter Kalkowski, Gerd Paul

7. Leisure Activities in Care Homes: How Do they Relate to the Well-Being of the Elderly?
Dietmar Goelitz, Christine Trenkamp, Peter Paulus

Part II. The “Visegrád Four”

8. Leisure and Pleasure: Healthy, Useful, Pleasant: Why Don’t We Do It?
György Bárdos, Júlia Ábrahám

9. Trapped by Sense of Comfort: Leisure Time Consumption Habits from the Aspect of Economic Psychology
László L. Lippai

10. Associations Between a Sedentary Lifestyle and Negative Mood State and the Risk of Breast Cancer
Melinda Látos, Zita Sándor, Pálma Kriston, Rózsa Havancsák, Zoltán Horváth, Attila Paszt, Zsolt Simonka, György Lázár, Márta Csabai

11. The Role of Leisure in Prevention and Treatment of Addiction
Katalin Lacsán, Zoltán Arany, Attila Farkas

12. Rethinking the Relationship Between Sport, Recreation and Tourism
Ferenc Győri, László Balogh

13. Lifestyle Research among Upper-Primary and Secondary School Pupils in Hungary, Southern Great Plains Region (2012)
Klára Tarkó, Zsuzsanna Benkő

14. Youth and Leisure Time
Ádám Nagy, Levente Székely, Márta Barbarics

15. Facebook-Diagnostics: Detection of Mental Hygiene Problems Based on Online Traces
György Csepeli, Richárd Nagyfi

16. Leisure-Time Activities and Lifelong Learning
Iva Jedličková

17. Patterns of Leisure-Time Activities in the Context of a Youth Festival in Romania
Kálmán Ercsei, Zita Kiss, Réka Plugor, Júlia Szabó, Valér Veres

18. Ethnicity, Leisure and Popular Culture
Justyna Kijonka

19. Leisure as a Mean of Older People’s Integration (Based on the Example of Silesian Voivodeship Inhabitants)
Agata Zygmunt

Part III. “Oh, East Is East …”

20. Leisure, Health and Wellbeing: The Ultimate Quest of Humanity
Ishwar Modi

21. Professional English Language Study as a Creative Leisure Pursuit
Natalya Malygina, Catherine Shiriaeva

22. On the Value of Parks and Public Health: A Case Study of Xuanwu Park in Beijing
Ma Huidi, Liu Er

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Positive Psychology, Health Psychology