Journal
JOURNAL OF HAPPINESS STUDIES
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 839-856Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10902-014-9536-1
Keywords
Time use; DRM; ESM; Subjective well-being; Measurement
Funding
- Canadian Federal Department of Fitness and Amateur Sport
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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Data from the 1975 U.S. time use survey, Canadian time use surveys (GSS) conducted from 1986 to 2010, and experience sampling surveys (ESM) conducted in 1985 and 2003 at the University of Waterloo (Canada) are used to examine well-being effects of time use. Indicators of subjective well-being (SWB) under investigation include: (a) generalised enjoyment ratings of selected daily activities; (b) reporting of the single most enjoyed activity performed on the time diary day; (c) affect ratings of daily activities recorded in ESM surveys at the time of their occurrence; (d) correlations between time use and levels of respondents' perceived happiness and life satisfaction, and (e) relationships between frequency of participation in different groups of daily activities and respondents' cumulative affect ratings during a survey week (ESM 1985, 2003). An argument is made that attempts to delineate indices of SWB as multiples of activity enjoyment ratings and their duration encounter considerable measurement and conceptual difficulties. It is suggested that prolonged exposure to highly enjoyed daily activities does not always foretell higher levels of cumulative subjective well-being, which is associated with balanced use of time rather than increased participation in individual activities.
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