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标题：Cruising through the millennium – 2003-13 changes in American daily life
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作者：John P. Robinson, Elena Tracy ; Yoonjoo Lee
期刊名称：Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research
电子版ISSN：1860-9937
出版年度：2015
卷号：12
页码：133-152
出版社：University of Lueneburg
摘要：The aim of this research is to examine recent US national time-diary data for evidence of an accelerating pace ofeveryday life in society, based on diary self-reports of how Americans spend their time since 1965. Earlier suchdiary studies had documented declines in women’s housework, increases in parental child care and overall gains infree time. These trends stood in marked contrast to the increased time pressure cited by societal critics of the style oflife in the US and other Western countries. Since 2003, the US government’s American Time-Use Survey (ATUS),now conducted continuously by the US Bureau of the Census, has asked more than 145,000 Americans how theyspent their time. Analysis of these 2003-2013 ATUS diaries reveals rather minimal change over this first millennialdecade, with about an hour’s decline in both paid work and domestic work/shopping, as in previous decades mainlyamong women. Unlike previous studies, that decline included about a 30% decline in help to neighbors and membersof other households, a key indicator of the country’s social safety net. These declines in productive and othermore pressured activity were offset by small gains in less pressured activities, like sleep and TV viewing. There wasalso a notable decline in reported travel activities, particularly by automobile. The 2010 ATUS also began askinghow these respondents felt during their diary activities, with results generally consistent with less-pressured lifestylesand earlier measures
关键词：Time pressure; pace of life; daily time trends; gender differences; changes in social contacts;and locations