dc.contributor.author | Phoenix, Cassandra | |
dc.contributor.author | Orr, N | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-08-26T13:15:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-08 | |
dc.description.abstract | Pleasure is an under-researched and under theorized concept within health and health-related areas, particularly in relation to physical activity in older age. This gap is addressed here. The paper forms part of a larger qualitative project conducted between March 2011 and July 2013 within which fifty-one physically active older adults (age sixty to ninety-two years) were interviewed about their experiences of physical activity. Twenty-seven of these participants were also involved in a photo elicitation exercise whereby they responded to photographic images of themselves doing their activity. The paper reports in-depth on one of the themes - pleasure - that was initially identified through a rigorous categorical-content analysis of this data. An original typology of pleasure for physical activity in older age is developed, which details four significant ideal types of pleasure: sensual pleasure; documented pleasure; the pleasure of habitual action; and the pleasure of immersion. The implications of this typology for debates around embodiment, affect, and narratives of ageing are discussed in relation to health promotion and future research in this underserved area. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Economic and Social Research Council | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Social Science and Medicine, 2014, Vol. 115, pp. 94 - 102 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.06.013 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | RES-061-30-000551 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15376 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24955874 | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Publisher's policy | en_GB |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Affect | en_GB |
dc.subject | Ageing | en_GB |
dc.subject | Embodiment | en_GB |
dc.subject | Physical activity | en_GB |
dc.subject | Pleasure | en_GB |
dc.subject | United Kingdom | en_GB |
dc.title | Pleasure: A forgotten dimension of physical activity in older age. | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 0277-9536 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | |
dc.description | This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Social Science and Medicine. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 115(2014)and can be accessed via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Social Science and Medicine | en_GB |