According to the literature, the typical college or
university has ongoing programs which are usually focused on
the concept of work as the total of a person's career with
little attention being given to the equally salient
dimension of leisure. The educational or developmental
consequences of participating in leisure activities on the
campus had not been examined nor had seemingly the logical
relationship between work and leisure been analyzed for its
developmental potentiality (Bloland, 1984). Therefore, the
purpose of this study was to examine the relationship
between leisure and career development in a select group of
college seniors.
The methodology used in this study was a descriptive
survey approach. A pilot study was conducted in the fall
semester of 1989. During the summer and fall semesters of
1990, the full study was undertaken by gathering information
through three instruments completed by 100 selected college
seniors (50 each from the Schools of Business and Education)
from a public, predominantly black, four-year degree-granting
institution of higher education in Virginia.
The Leisure Activities Blank (McKechnie, 1975), the Career
Development Inventory (Thompson, Lindeman, Super, Jordaan,
and Myers, 1981), and a structured interview format
developed by the researcher were the instruments used in
this study.
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