| This study focused on how participation in achievement, social, and time-out leisure activities was distributed and if typologies were useful relative to predicting treatment progress for a sample (N=20) of civilly committed men receiving involuntary treatment for sexual offending. Twelve men in an early phase of treatment (Phase 2) and eight men farther in their treatment (Phases 3 and 4) were recruited to participate, provided informed consent, and completed data collection. All individuals were sampled for at least three days to determine averages for typology and experience. Individual data were summed across days, averaged, and pooled by treatment phases for comparison. The Leisure Experience Questionnaire (LEQ) measured two components of leisure, typology and experience, using an experience sampling method. The LEQ included the questions about where, with whom, and type of activity to determine typology. To determine the degree of positive experience, the LEQ included the Flow State Scale -- 2 (FSS -- 2; Jackson & Eklund, 2004). The FSS-2 a 36-item instrument described in Jackson & Eklund (2004) The Flow Scales Manual, assessed the nine dimensions of flow (Csiskszentmihalyi, 1990). Contrary to expectations, the data failed to support the hypothesis that a relationship existed between leisure typology and treatment phase; X 2 = .888; df = 2; p = .64. Social leisure activities predominated (64%), followed by time-out leisure (30%), and achievement leisure achievement (6%). The data did, however, produced significant relationships between treatment phase and reports of positive and negative experience (X2= 6.038; df= 2; p = .049). Social and achievement leisure activities were more positive experiences than time out leisure activities. There was also a significant relationship between treatment phase and experience valence (X2 = 7.875; df = 1; p =.005), where those in earlier phases reported more positive leisure experiences. |
