Careen Yarnal
Associate Professor
812 Ford Building
Phone: 814-863-5559
Fax: 814-867-1751
Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University
Current Research Interests
Leisure and positive aging
Older adult play and playfulness
Women's leisure and wellbeing
Recent Courses Taught
RPTM 120 Leisure and Human Development
RPTM 210 Introduction to Commercial Recreation and Tourism
HHD 497B Women's Leadership
Selected Publications
Yarnal, C., Son, J., & Leichty, T. (in press). “She was buried in her red dress and her purple hat”. Dress, embodiment and older women’s leisure. Journal of Aging Studies.
Son, J., Yarnal, C., & Kerstetter, D. (in press). Engendering social capital through a leisure club for middle age and older women: Implications for health and well-being. Leisure Studies.
Shen, S., & Yarnal, C. (2009). (in press). Blowing open the serious leisure-casual leisure dichotomy: What’s in between? Leisure Sciences.
Ribeiro, N., & Yarnal, C. (2009). “It wasn’t my sole purpose for going down there”: An inquiry into the Spring Break experience and its relation with alcohol consumption, Annals of Leisure Research, 11(3/4), 351-367.
Yarnal, C., Chick, G., & Kerstetter, D. (2008). "I did not have time to play growing up so this is my play time. It's the best thing I have ever done for myself": What is play to older women? Leisure Sciences, 30(3), 235-252, 28(2), 133-161.
Son, J., Kerstetter, D., Yarnal, C., & Baker, B. (2007). Promoting older women's health and well-being through leisure environments: What we have learned from the Red Hat Society®. Journal of Women and Aging, 19(3/4), 89-104.
Yarnal, C., Hutchinson, S., & Chow, H. (2006). "I could probably run a marathon right now": Embodiment, space and young women's leisure experience. Leisure Sciences, 28(2), 133-161.