College Students’ Healthy Leisure: Latent Profile Analyses of Constraints and Negotiation Strategies

College presents opportunities for health promotion, but students may be constrained in their ability to engage in healthy leisure. Leisure constraints and constraint negotiation strategies are important influences of healthy leisure, but few studies have examined the potential for heterogeneity among students in the constraints they face and how they negotiate these constraints. The present study therefore used a person-centered approach, latent profile analysis, to identify patterns of college students’ constraints and negotiation of healthy leisure. Using a sample of 605 students at a U.S. university, results indicated a four-profile solution for healthy leisure constraints and a two-profile solution for healthy leisure negotiation. Results also showed interrelationships between profiles and among profiles and participant demographics, healthy leisure motivation and identity, subjective health, and healthy leisure activities. Findings are discussed in terms of future research and the development of more tailored leisure education interventions for college populations.

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Leisure Sciences on 2023-09-05, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01490400.2023.2252434.

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Work Title College Students’ Healthy Leisure: Latent Profile Analyses of Constraints and Negotiation Strategies
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Creators
  1. Jennifer P. Agans
  2. Julie Stafford Son
  3. Sammie Powers
  4. Steven Hanna
  5. Elizabeth H. Weybright
Keyword
  1. Latent profile analysis
  2. Healthy leisure
  3. College student
  4. Leisure constraints
License CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial)
Work Type Article
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  1. Leisure Sciences
Publication Date September 5, 2023
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  1. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2023.2252434
Deposited March 25, 2024

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  • Added Creator Jennifer P. Agans
  • Added Creator Julie Stafford Son
  • Added Creator Sammie Powers
  • Added Creator Steven Hanna
  • Added Creator Elizabeth H. Weybright
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    • Latent profile analysis, Healthy leisure, College student, Leisure constraints
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    • 2023-01-01
    • 2023-09-05