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Parents' Time Allocation: A Comparison Of Households Headed By One And Two Parents
Author(s) -
Rowland Virginia T.,
Nickols Sharon Y.,
Dodder Richard A.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
home economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 0046-7774
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x8601500204
Subject(s) - time allocation , personal care , unpaid work , psychology , leisure time , paid work , work (physics) , demography , child care , time use survey , work hours , developmental psychology , medicine , sociology , labour economics , working hours , economics , nursing , family medicine , physical activity , mechanical engineering , social science , engineering , physical medicine and rehabilitation
Patterns of recalled time allocation of parents were examined for 29 divorced mothers in one‐parent households and for 30 mothers and 30 fathers married and jointly heading two‐parent households. Correlations of time spent on six catego ries‐employment/unpaid work, household work, family care, leisure, personal maintenance, and a miscellaneous category‐indicated that time spent in em ployment/unpaid work was significantly ( p ≤ 0.05) associated with different cate gories of time use for different groups of parents but had a greater impact on time allocations of divorced mothers than on either group of married parents. Analysis of variance of the six categories of time allocation indicated that divorced mothers and two‐parent fathers were significantly ( p ≤ 0.05) different from two‐ parent mothers in time allocated to employment/unpaid work, household work, and leisure. But mothers in both family types spent significantly ( p < 0.05) more time on care of family members than did two‐parent fathers.