A child's day: trends in time use in the UK from 1975 to 2015

Mullan, Killian

doi:10.1111/1468-4446.12369

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“…This is consistent with time-use studies revealing that teenagers and young adults spend less time working and more time studying [98]. Students who manage their time likely have well-defined intentions, and trends suggest those intentions will target education over work because, it is hoped, education offers larger payoffs over the long-term [99].…”

Section: Plos Onesupporting

confidence: 80%

Does time management work? A meta-analysis

2021

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Does time management work? We conducted a meta-analysis to assess the impact of time management on performance and well-being. Results show that time management is moderately related to job performance, academic achievement, and wellbeing. Time management also shows a moderate, negative relationship with distress. Interestingly, individual differences and contextual factors have a much weaker association with time management, with the notable exception of conscientiousness. The extremely weak correlation with gender was unexpected: women seem to manage time better than men, but the difference is very slight. Further, we found that the link between time management and job performance seems to increase over the years: time management is more likely to get people a positive performance review at work today than in the early 1990s. The link between time management and gender, too, seems to intensify: women’s time management scores have been on the rise for the past few decades. We also note that time management seems to enhance wellbeing—in particular, life satisfaction—to a greater extent than it does performance. This challenges the common perception that time management first and foremost enhances work performance, and that wellbeing is simply a byproduct.

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Section: Plos Onesupporting

confidence: 80%

Does time management work? A meta-analysis

2021

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“…Although we do not expect this to have a significant effect on our results as people still engage in all the activities mentioned by the U.S. family members today, there have been certain changes in time-use patterns that would be interesting for future research to consider. For example, people now tend to spend more time indoors, using a greater range of screen-based technologies, and are more likely to engage in remote working (Mullan, 2018; Van Dam & Morath, 2016). It would, therefore, be intriguing to see whether people are now experiencing less flow due to less time on predominantly outdoor-based sports activities, or whether instead, they are managing to find flow in videogames (Cowley, Charles, Black, & Hickey, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

Flow Activities as a Route to Living Well With Less

Isham

Gatersleben

Jackson

2018

Environment and Behavior

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Research suggests that the excessive focus on the acquisition of material goods promoted by our consumer society may be detrimental to well-being. Current Western lifestyles, which promote unsustainable patterns of production and consumption, therefore risk failing to bring citizens the happiness they seek. Csikszentmihalyi suggested that engaging in challenging, flow-conducive activities is a means by which individuals can improve well-being without substantially affecting the environment. In this article, we test this proposal by examining data concerning the daily experiences and well-being of 500 U.S. families. We show that individuals who experience stronger characteristics of flow in their leisure activities tend to have greater momentary well-being, whereas those experiencing flow more frequently report greater retrospective well-being. Moreover, a small negative relationship was found between an activity’s flow score and its environmental impact. The analysis allows us to identify a specific group of high-flow, low–environmental impact activities.

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“…Recent studies support the idea that adults and children in westernized nations are spending more time indoors [38][39][40]; researchers have demonstrated age-related, cross-generational declines in childhood experiences with nature [41]. Increased engagement with screen-based technology may help explain diminished time outdoors in natural environments [42][43][44][45]. Moreover, cultural products (such as fiction books, film storylines and song lyrics) are trending away from inclusion of nature [46], and the rise of celebrity-oriented mass media has been associated with diminished environmental knowledge [47].…”

Section: Extinction Of Experiencementioning

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Spaceship Earth Revisited: The Co-Benefits of Overcoming Biological Extinction of Experience at the Level of Person, Place and Planet

Prescott

Bland²

2020

IJERPH

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Extensive research underscores that we interpret the world through metaphors; moreover, common metaphors are a useful means to enhance the pursuit of personal and collective goals. In the context of planetary health—defined as the interdependent vitality of all natural and anthropogenic ecosystems (social, political and otherwise)—one enduring metaphor can be found in the concept of “Spaceship Earth”. Although not without criticism, the term “Spaceship Earth” has been useful to highlight both resource limitations and the beauty and fragility of delicate ecosystems that sustain life. Rene Dubos, who helped popularize the term, underscored the need for an exposome perspective, one that examines the total accumulated environmental exposures (both detrimental and beneficial) that predict the biological responses of the “total organism to the total environment” over time. In other words, how large-scale environmental changes affect us all personally, albeit in individualized ways. This commentary focuses the ways in which microbes, as an essential part of all ecosystems, provide a vital link between personal and planetary systems, and mediate the biopsychosocial aspects of our individualized experience—and thus health—over our life course journey. A more fine-grained understanding of these dynamics and our power to change them, personally and collectively, lies at the core of restoring “ecosystems balance” for person, place and planet. In particular, restoring human connectedness to the natural world, sense of community and shared purpose must occur in tandem with technological solutions, and will enhance individual empowerment for personal well-being, as well as our collective potential to overcome our grand challenges. Such knowledge can help shape the use of metaphor and re-imagine solutions and novel ways for restoration or rewilding of ecosystems, and the values, behaviors and attitudes to light the path toward exiting the Anthropocene.

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A child's day: trends in time use in the UK from 1975 to 2015

Cited by 57 publications

References 28 publications

Does time management work? A meta-analysis

Does time management work? A meta-analysis

Flow Activities as a Route to Living Well With Less

Spaceship Earth Revisited: The Co-Benefits of Overcoming Biological Extinction of Experience at the Level of Person, Place and Planet

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