Activating Leisure Time: A Review and Prospects of Leisure Crafting

Ni Xudong, Gao Kun

Foreign Economics & Management Vol. 46, Issue 03, pp. 53 - 68 (2024)  DOI:10.16538/j.cnki.fem.20231122.302

Summary

In the context of sustainable career development and the blurring of work-life interface, how to activate leisure time and the impact of leisure crafting have become an important topic in both academia and industry. Firstly, this paper elaborates the conceptual connotation and characteristics of leisure crafting from the perspectives of psychological needs and demand-resource matching, and proposes a comprehensive definition of leisure crafting. Secondly, based on the self-determination theory and the job demand-resource model, this paper organizes and summarizes the theoretical perspectives, antecedents and consequences, and the impact mechanism of leisure crafting. Finally, future research can focus on six aspects of leisure crafting: antecedents, new theoretical perspectives, the dynamic relationship between compensation and spillover effects in the impact mechanism, intervention schemes, the dark side, and localization. This paper provides a more comprehensive theoretical reference for the subsequent empirical research on leisure crafting. It also inspires individuals and organizations to harness the positive effects of leisure crafting.

Keywords

leisure crafting; self-determination theory; job demand-resource model; compensation and spillover effects; regulatory focus theory