Parents’ work schedules and time spent with children

Time spent in housework and leisure: links with parents' physiological recovery from work.

Spouses' balancing of housework and leisure activities at home may affect their recovery from work. This paper reports on a study of everyday family life in which 30 dual-earner couples were tracked around their homes by researchers who recorded their locations and activities every 10 min. For women, the most frequently pursued activities at home were housework, communication, and leisure; husb...

Statistical Analysis of Time Spent on Unpaid and Paid Work

A comparison of time Ojibway adolescents spent with parents/elders in the 1930s and 1980s.

This study compared quantity and quality of family time spent with parents/elders by American Indian Ojibway adolescents (ages 12-18) in the 1980s to Ojibway adults (ages 55-70) who were adolescents in the 1930s. Results indicated that 1980s adolescents spent an average of 12.5 hours per week with parents/elders compared to 62 hours per week indicated by respondents who were adolescents in the ...

Gender, work schedules and work/family regulation.

The Gender and Work Technical Committee (TC) of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) is responsible for this issue of the journal WORK. Since many of the authors come from the scholarly tradition of ergonomic analysis of work activity, we should explain that, in this context, the word “regulation” refers to the attempts made byworkers andworkers’ groups to manage job requirements and ...

Time with children and employed parents' emotional well-being.

Using the experience sampling method and survey data from the 500 Family Study this study examined how parents feel when they spend time with their children and whether their emotional experiences differ by type of activity and the parent's gender. I found that mothers spent more time in childcare than fathers but this disparity was primarily due to mothers' more frequent engagement in activiti...