INTRODUCTION
Ceasing participation in leisure activities has only recently become a focus in leisure research. Only two studies have explicitly examined the concept (Boothby, Tungatt, and Townsend, 1981; Jackson and Dunn, 1988), and little has been done to distinguish between people who continue involvement and those who cease participation. As in leisure constraints research generally (Jackson, 1988), researchers have not attempted to assess any models with respect to ceasing leisure participation. Future research should be used inductively to build a conceptual model which can be tested and used in theory construction, or conceptualized within the framework of existing theories.
