Fraguela-Vale, RaúlVarela-Crespo, LauraVarela Garrote, LaraCarretero, Miriam2022-01-102022-01-102021Raúl Fraguela-Vale, Laura Varela-Crespo, Lara Varela-Garrote & Miriam Carretero-García (2021) The influence of gender and family educational background on leisure satisfaction among Spanish adolescents, International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 26:1, 391-404, DOI: 10.1080/02673843.2021.1970595http://hdl.handle.net/2183/29323[Abstract] This article examines the impact of gender and family educational background on the leisure satisfaction of Spanish secondary school-age students (12-16 years). The research design consisted of a quantitative study in the form of a questionnaire (the reduced version of Beard and Ragheb’s (1980) Leisure Satisfaction Scale), which was completed by a sample of 1887 secondary school students in Galicia (Spain). The results indicate a moderate level of satisfaction with leisure activities among the teenagers surveyed, with significant variations observed in relation to gender and parental educational level. Girls from families with a low level of educational attainment were found to be more likely to pass up leisure opportunities than boys, revealing a double gap (educational and gender-based) with regard to leisure satisfaction and a greater risk of precarious leisure. Future research in this area should focus on the development of Leisure Education programmes for children and adolescents.engAtribución 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Leisure satisfactionLeisure constraintsAdolescentsFamilyEducational levelGender inequalityjournal articleopen access10.1080/02673843.2021.1970595