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Stewart, William P. Robinett, Jeremy L. 2011-01-14T22:46:42Z 2011-01-14T22:46:42Z 2011-01-14T22:46:42Z This thesis explored the complexity of how men choose leisure activities. I examined the interplay between participant’s perceived benefits of indoor plants, perceptions of masculinities, and self-efficacy in men’s decisions to grow interior plants. This exploration was facilitated through the administration of a questionnaire that included two interval level scales and four open ended questions. The participants’ responses to the scale items were examined for correlations and used to perform a regression analysis. The responses to the open ended questions were analyzed using conceptual ordering matrixes to establish themes. I learned that the participating men did perceive benefits from interior plants. Their perceived self-efficacy with plants did influence their decision to grow interior plants. Participants’ responses also indicated that perceptions of masculinity did not affect their choices to grow interior plants. Two interesting findings of this research were that there was no all-encompassing view of masculinity among the participants. Rather, there were multiple and complex masculinities perceived by the participants. I also found that positive interest in plants as a form of leisure activity was the greatest contributor to whether or not participating men grew interior plants. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2010-12-10T15:41:43Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Robinett_Jeremy.pdf: 730470 bytes, checksum: f14ebbee967c6f72552def4c1858dda2 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-01-14T22:46:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Robinett_Jeremy.pdf: 727253 bytes, checksum: b3ccd4f2eefcf77242e06749cf7b7314 (MD5) license.txt: 4065 bytes, checksum: 8f6d4bdd3faa656e5b35a7760a86b0f8 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/18337 en Copyright 2010 Jeremy L. Robinett Masculinities Self-Efficacy Interior Plants Leisure Positive Interest Masculinities, self-efficacy and interior plants as leisure 2010-12 Recreation, Sport and Tourism 1714 Recreation, Sport, and Tourism 4043 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S. PHD: Rec, Sport,Tourism -UIUC 10KS4043PHD