Theming, Co-Creation, and Quality of Structured Experiences at Camp Academic Article

abstract

• Lacanienta and his colleagues (2018) recently reported results of a study of the effect of themes on quality of experience of youths during summer camp activities. Existing literature suggested that theming activity sessions would have a strong main effect. Results, though, revealed an activity-by-theme interaction effect, i.e., themes seem to be effective in some activities but not others. In this follow-up study, we describe results of a secondary analysis revealing significant new insights regarding theme. Adding an indicator of campers co-created, lived-experience theme into the models tested substantially clarified how objective theme, lived-experience theme, and activity interact in influencing the quality of structured experiences. This study, then, underscores the importance of including measures of participants co-created lived experience as we seek to understand techniques that can be used to enhance the quality of youths structured camp experiences.

authors

• Ellis, Gary
• Jiang, Jingxian

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

author list (cited authors)

• Ellis, G. D., Jiang, J., Lacanienta, A., & Carroll, J. M.

citation count

• 2

complete list of authors

• Ellis, Gary D||Jiang, Jingxian||Lacanienta, Andrew||Carroll, John Mark

publication date

• January 2019

publisher

• University Library System, University of Pittsburgh  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Youth Development  Journal

keywords

• Co-creation
• Deep-structured Experience
• Experience Quality
• Theme
• Theory Of Structured Experience

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.5195/jyd.2019.651

start page

• 230

end page

• 242

volume

• 14

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2019.651