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The costs that come with leisure activities are covered first. Next, those costs are examined for their fit in the common sense imagery of leisure as well as in the scientific theory and research that strives to explain it. These leisure costs, conceived of here as either situational or inherent, have been identified as tensions, dislikes, and disappointments. They are examined as they are experienced in serious, casual, and project-based leisure. Selfishness in leisure can be a cost, though it is not part of leisure’s negative common sense image. Moreover, the victims of selfishness associated with a free-time activity know intimately the effects of this attitude, even while they seem to share the common sense image of leisure held by the general public.
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Stebbins, R.A. (2017). What Do We Get from Leisure? Its Costs. In: Leisure’s Legacy . Leisure Studies in a Global Era. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59794-2_7
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