ERIC Number: EJ1168924
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Mar
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Enhancing the College Student Experience: Outcomes of a Leisure Education Program
Jordan, Katherine A.; Gagnon, Ryan J.; Anderson, Denise M.; Pilcher, June J.
Journal of Experiential Education, v41 n1 p90-106 Mar 2018
Background: Experiential education in higher education provides opportunities for college student development that contribute to student success. As such, a leisure education program is posited as a complement to experiential education programming. Purpose: This study explored the impact of a leisure education program (leisure skills) on dimensions of college student success, including school satisfaction, student life satisfaction, school belonging, and self-esteem. Methodology/Approach: This study compared 531 leisure skills students with a group of 136 students not enrolled in a leisure skills class. Findings/Conclusions: The results of a repeated-measures analysis indicated leisure skills students fared better than non-leisure skills students in the measured dimensions, maintaining similar levels of school satisfaction, life satisfaction, belonging, and self-esteem over the course of the semester while the non-leisure skills students experienced decreases. Implications: Students who chose leisure skills classes experienced stability and improvement in school and student life satisfaction, school belonging, and self-esteem. Therefore, leisure education programming should be further examined as a mechanism for college student success.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Leisure Education, Experiential Learning, Outcomes of Education, Student Development, Sense of Community, Self Esteem, Student Satisfaction, Prevention, Health Promotion, Rating Scales, Program Descriptions, Multivariate Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Self Concept Measures
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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