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When the arts are not your cup of tea: Participation frequency and experience in cultural activities
van Bendegom,Coen Mitas,Ondrej Boode,Wilco de Rooij,Pieter Bastiaansen,Marcel
van Bendegom,Coen
Mitas,Ondrej
Boode,Wilco
de Rooij,Pieter
Bastiaansen,Marcel
Abstract
Expressive cultural activities, such as viewing visual art, drama, or dance, are perceived as beneficial to individuals and societies, justifying public funding. However, not everyone benefits and participates equally. We intentionally sampled infrequent and frequent attendees among young adults in the Netherlands. Results indicated that infrequent and frequent attendees differed in expressive cultural activity constraints and socialization, though not on demographic background. Their cultural, social, and emotional experience through self-report and physiological data revealed no significant differences between the groups’ experience of a dramatic performance. These outcomes suggest that, as an example of expressive cultural activity, a dramatic performance experience can be equally emotionally beneficial to frequent and infrequent attendees, an important prerequisite to broader appeal and intergroup contact. Implications of the use of physiological data in leisure experience research are discussed
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Funding This article was funded by the Dutch Research Council (400.17.603).
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2022
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CONSTRAINTS, EMOTIONS, LEISURE, PERCEPTION, PREJUDICE, Social fragmentation, TRACKING, cultural participation, experience, leisure constraints, skin conductance
Citation
van Bendegom, C, Mitas, O, Boode, W, de Rooij, P & Bastiaansen, M 2022, 'When the arts are not your cup of tea : Participation frequency and experience in cultural activities', Journal of Leisure Research, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 229-252. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2021.1884820
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