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JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
卷 121, 期 4, 页码 933-947出版社
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000391
关键词
discretionary time; happiness; life satisfaction; subjective well-being; time
The research found that having too little discretionary time is linked to lower subjective well-being due to stress, while having too much discretionary time can also lead to lower subjective well-being because of a lacking sense of productivity.
Many people living in modern society feel like they do not have enough time and are constantly searching for more. But is having limited discretionary time actually detrimental? And can there be downsides of having too much discretionary time? In two large-scale data sets spanning 35,375 Americans and two experiments, we explore the relationship between the amount of discretionary time individuals have and their subjective well-being. We find and internally replicate a negative quadratic relationship between discretionary time and subjective well-being. These results show that whereas having too little time is indeed linked to lower subjective well-being caused by stress, having more time does not continually translate to greater subjective well-being. Having an abundance of discretionary time is sometimes even linked to lower subjective well-being because of a lacking sense of productivity. In such cases, the negative effect of having too much discretionary time can be attenuated when people spend this time on productive activities.
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