REASONS FOR CEASING PARTICIPATION AND BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION - FURTHER EXAMINATION OF CONSTRAINED LEISURE AS AN INTERNALLY HOMOGENEOUS CONCEPT

As part of the ongoing process of concept refinement in leisure constr aints research, this article addresses the issue of the internal homog eneity of constrained leisure, first examined by Jackson and Dunn (199 1). Comparisons are made of responses by the members of a single sampl e to virtually identical scales of items related to reasons for ceasin g participation in a former activity and barriers to initiating partic ipation in a new one. There was a general trend of similarity in the a bsolute and relative importance of the constraints associated with the se two aspects of constrained leisure among a sample of Canadian junio r high and high school students. However, the finding that several ite ms were exceptions to the overall pattern provides further support for Jackson and Dunn's conclusion that constrained leisure is not an inte rnally homogeneous concept.