| Abstract: | H. E. A. Tinsley and B. D. Eldredge (see record 1995-27399-001), using sound instrumentation and large samples, developed a need-based taxonomy of leisure activities that enlarges counseling psychology's understanding of both the leisure experience and psychological needs. This study and other studies of psychological needs can benefit from the comparability afforded by a consensus set of higher order need dimensions. This study points up 2 important developments in counseling psychology (and the rest of psychology as well): the use of latent variables to construe "mind" and the use of the questionnaire to instrument introspection. By their sustained study of the leisure experience, Tinsley and his colleagues have helped to add the knowledge of "play" (E. S. Bordin, 1994) to the counseling psychologist's more extensive knowledge of work. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
