title: Need for closure and youths' leisure time preferences.
abstract: The Need for Closure is an individual characteristic which may help explain individual differences in engagement in leisure activities. Both a leisure engagement inventory and a validated Dutch version of the Need for Closure Scale were administered to a convenient sample of 1,035 young adults ages 15 to 24 years of whom 552 were female. Leisure engagement was hypothesized to differ for groups differing in Need for Closure. More specifically, youngsters who score high (versus low) on Need for Closure engaged more in structured, cognitively effortless, and predictable leisure activities like shopping for fun and going to the cinema, while young adults scoring low (versus high) on Need for Closure more often participated in unstructured, unpredictable, cognitively effortful or challenging leisure activities like going to a party, a pub, or a pop concert, idly lazing away, visiting or hosting friends, attending an evening class and playing computer games.
authors.affiliation: Hogeschool Ghent, Department of Business Administration and Management, and Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Marketing, Hoveniersberg, 24, 9000 Gent, Belgium. Iris.Vermeir@hogent.be
authors.forename: Iris
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Vermeir
authors.forename: Maggie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Geuens
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007899:Leisure Activities; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D012919:Social Behavior; D012931:Social Environment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires