Integrating Ceasing Participation With Other Aspects of Leisure Behavior

The paper focuses on one aspect of non-participation, namely ceasing participation in leisure activities. In the first part of the paper, the phenomenon is examined from a conceptual perspective. A model is proposed that demonstrates how ceasing participation and other aspects of non-participation are interconnected and how they relate to the broader concepts of leisure demand. Then, in the second part of the paper, the conceptual discussion is amplified using results from a Canadian survey. By integrating ceasing participation data with information about other aspects of leisure behavior, it is demonstrated that the concepts of the “dropout rate” and “replacement rate” allow for a more accurate interpretation of changes in leisure behaviour than do raw data on ceasing participation.