The Paragraphs About Leisure (PAL) was administered to a sample of stamp collectors (N = 51) and a sample of undergraduate students naive about stamp collecting (N = 30). One-way ANO-VAs were performed to compare the group means on the 44 scales of the PAL. The results provide support for the discriminant validity of the PAL.
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