{"id":3556,"date":"2020-06-08T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T22:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsijournal.eu\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2020-06-07T08:48:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T06:48:22","slug":"effects-of-leisure-activities-on-happiness-in-the-case-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/?p=3556","title":{"rendered":"EFFECTS OF LEISURE ACTIVITIES ON HAPPINESS IN THE CASE OF JAPAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Kenichi SHIMAMOTO<\/h2>\n<h3>KS Sustainability Research,  Japan<\/h3>\n<h3>ken_japan51@hotmail.com<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the increase interest in adopting a form of happiness to policy goals, a wide range of studies on subjective well-being (<em>SWB<\/em>) have become available. Leisure is a key component of our daily life which can affect <em>SWB<\/em>. Leisure activities is said to reduce stress and promote health. It can be a social activity that provides a sense of belonging or the time can be used for self-development. There is a wide range of leisure activities such as sports, hobbies, volunteer participation and socializing. This paper examines the underlying characteristics of leisure activities by conducting a principal component analysis across leisure related variables by using cross section data for 47 prefectures in Japan. The main results find that regions with greater active\/external type tend to have higher levels of <em>SWB<\/em>, and regions with greater self-development type tend to have lower levels of <em>SWB<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> Subjective well-being, leisure, Japan<\/p>\n<p><strong>JEL classification: <\/strong>I31, Z00<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsijournal.eu\/ARTICLES\/June_2020\/1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>read more<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenichi SHIMAMOTO KS Sustainability Research, Japan ken_japan51@hotmail.com Abstract With the increase interest in adopting a form of happiness to policy goals, a wide range of studies on subjective well-being (SWB) have become available. Leisure is a key component of our daily life which can affect SWB. Leisure activities is said to reduce stress and promote&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[977,994,993,992,995],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","tag-i31","tag-japan","tag-leisure","tag-subjective-well-being","tag-z00"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3558,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions\/3558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}