Open AccessTIME ALLOCATION AND FEELINGS OF HAPPINESS OF SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS – A GENDERED PERSPECTIVE
Author(s) -
Miroslava Knapková,
Miriam Martinkovičová,
Alena Kaščáková
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
acc journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1803-9790
pISSN - 1803-9782
DOI - 10.15240/tul/004/2021-2-006
Subject(s) - happiness , feeling , psychology , evening , perspective (graphical) , social psychology , work (physics) , mechanical engineering , physics , astronomy , artificial intelligence , computer science , engineering
This article focuses on the division of the daily activities of self-employed persons on entrepreneurial activities, unpaid work, leisure time and other activities, and their interconnection to the feelings of happiness (as part of subjective well-being). Modified Time Use Survey (TUS) methodology was used to gather data on division of time and to identify SWB. The 13 groups of activities and 161 self-employed persons were included in the analysis. The results suggest that both self-employed men and women dedicate more than 8 hours per day for paid work. Daily activities during which the highest part of self-employed men and women feel the happiest belong to leisure activities. Unpaid work activities bring the highest feeling of happiness to 12.5 % of self-employed women. Feelings of happiness of self-employed women are more fluctuating during the paid work than feelings of happiness of self-employed men. In the evening, the feelings of happiness of the self-employed women decrease significantly, which could be caused by double burden of self-employed women.