Abstract
Each person creates meaning in the world by means of cognitive conceptual systems. From this perspective, an individual formulates his own personal constructs through which he views events in a personal world. This investigation explored the spatial arrangement of personal constructs and their associated influence on the frequency and duration of participation in leisure activities. The Personal Sphere Model, a projective technique, was used to assess respondents' spatial representations of important personal constructs. The model assumes that each person stands in the center of a sphere formed by the people, ideas, and things which have influenced him throughout his life and which vary in their importance to him. Data from 149 randomly selected respondents in a southwestern metropolitan area provide evidence that the spatial arrangement of personal constructs can be significantly associated with both the frequency and duration of participation in a majority of leisure activities.
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