@article{ref1,
title="Experiences and meanings of leisure, active living, and recovery among culturally diverse community-dwelling adults with mental illness",
journal="American journal of psychiatric rehabilitation",
year="2015",
author="Shank, John W. and Iwasaki, Yoshitaka and Coyle, Catherine and Messina, Emily S.",
volume="18",
number="2",
pages="129-151",
abstract="This paper presents the findings from Phase II of our multiphase, community-based research project that examined in-depth insights into the meanings of leisure and active living in the recovery experiences of culturally diverse, community-dwelling adults with mental illness. A series of three face-to-face, semistructured interviews were conducted once each week for 3 weeks with each individual who was purposefully selected from a pool of Phase I study participants. This case-study subsample (n = 23; 14 women and 9 men) included seven White, six Black, six Hispanic American, and four Asian American participants, aged between 23 and 78 years. The findings suggested that actively engaged leisure would act as a mechanism (i.e., &quot;leisure space&quot;) for &quot;movement from&quot; stress and tension and &quot;movement to&quot; something enjoyable and meaningful (e.g., a source of fulfillment, social connections, the reaffirmation of self-worth, hope for the future, altruism).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1548-7768",
doi="10.1080/15487768.2014.954160",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15487768.2014.954160"
}