How do leisure activities provide protection against stress?
What will be an ideal response?
According to Kleiber and colleagues, four ways leisure activities serve as a buffer against negative life events include the following: (1) leisure activities distract us from negative life events; (2) leisure activities generate optimism about the future because they are pleasant; (3) leisure activities connect us to our personal past by allowing us to participate in the same activities over much of our lives; and (4) leisure activities can be used as vehicles for personal transformation.
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a. reaffirmation b. causation c. remediation d. construction
Which of the following seek to fundamentally alter the existing social, political, and economic system in keeping with a vision of a new social order
A. reformist social movements B. reactionary social movements C. revolutionary social movements D. utopian social movements
According to York Bradshaw and Michael Wallace, the rise of the European Union as the next world hegemony is unlikely because of three major types of obstacles. These obstacles are
a. economic, linguistic, and national b. economic, military, and religious c. economic, geographical, and national d. geographical, linguistic, and national
Which type of thought is characterized by the recognition that the correct answer varies from situation to situation, solutions must be realistic, ambiguity is the rule rather than the exception, and emotion and subjective factors usually play a role in thinking?
A. concrete operational thought B. formal operational thought C. post-formal thought D. reflective thought