One Measure for Defining a Leisure Activity (Report‪)‬

Introduction Although many authors have used several dimensions in their conceptualizations of leisure, they have characteristically refrained from a discussion of empirical measures for these dimensions. The four dimensions most frequently used--and outlined in brief by Dumazedier (1968, p. 251)--bear repeating. First is the dimension of leisure as freedom from obligation: "... leisure does imply freedom from those institutional obligations that are prescribed by the basic form of social organization." The second dimension is disinterestedness: