In the present analysis we will adopt the perspective of leisure time as time segment with a relative autonomy, with an important role in the quality of life. Leisure time is equally a result of the processing of other segments of life and a determining factor of transformation of the concept about life, once this segment was "discovered" and began to be consumed according to the preferences and needs of everyone, after the release of any commitment.
The role of leisure in the quality of life is subordinate to the importance given to it in the relation to the nature, to the size and difficulty of the professional obligations, to the way in which the individuals deal with them and with the need felt more or less intensely to have leisure time. But the role in quality of life depends on the system of general and individual values, which set up life styles in different social contexts.
Baier, K. (1974), Towards a definition of „Quality of Life”, ed. by R.O. Clark and P.C. List, New York.
Bauer, R. (ed.), 1966, Social Indicators, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press
Beard, J. G., Ragheb, M. G. (1980), Measuring leisure satisfaction. Journal of Leisure Research, 12(1)
Bertrand de Jouvenel, Kaal, H. (1961), A Better life in an Affluent Society, Diogenes March 1961, vol. 9, no. 33
Daisy, D. (2008), Urban Quality of Life: A Case Study of Guwahati, Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Soc Indic Res (2008) 88
Dumazédier, J. (1971), Leisure time, the functions and his socio-economic condition in contemporary French. sociology, coord. Alma?u Mic, Dragan, Publisher Policy, Bucharest
Lever J. P. (2000), The development of an instrument to measure quality of life in Mexico City. Social Indicators Research, 50
Lynch, K. (1965/1990), The Openness of Open Space. In: Banerjee, T., Southworth, M. (Eds), City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch, The MIT Press, Cambridge.
Marans, R. W. (2003), Understanding environmental quality through quality of life studies: the 2001 DAS and its use of subjective and objective indicators, Landscape and Urban Planning 65 (2003)
M?rginean I., B?la?a Ana (coord.), (2005), Quality of life in Romania, Bucharest, Publisher Expert
Shirvani, H., 1985, The Urban Design Process, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch, The MIT Press, Cambridge.
Siegenthaler, K. L., O’Dell I. (2000), Leisure attitude, leisure satisfaction, and perceived freedom in leisure within family dyads. Leisure Sciences, 22.
In-Text Citation: (Bogan & Varvaruc, 2014)
To Cite this Article: Bogan, E., & Varvaruc, D. (2014). Residents’ Perception Regarding to the Possibilities of Leisure and their Influence on the Quality of Life Case study: The Human Communities in Zlatna Depression, Romania. International Journal of Academic Research in Enviornment & Geography, 1(2), 1–10.
Copyright: © 2014 The Author(s)
Published by Knowledge Words Publications (www.kwpublications.com)
This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this license may be seen at: http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode
