In the Eye of the Beholder:1A Comment on Samdahl & Jekubovich (1997), “A Critique of Leisure Constraints: Comparative Analyses and Understandings”

The purpose of this article is to address some of the issues raised by Samdahl and Jekubovich (1997) in their critique of leisure constraints research. I suggest that the authors have based their criticism on a rather narrow and outdated conception of leisure constraints, that the concept of constraints is not an artificial construct, and that the new data and interpretations put forward by Samdahl and Jekubovich are better viewed as potentially important refinements to thinking about constraints to leisure rather than as grounds for abandoning constraints research.