The Effects of Gender Role Attitude, Time Used for Childcare and Cultural/Leisure Activities on Life Satisfaction of 30s and 40s Parents in Their Child Rearing Stage: The Aspects of Time Use
AUTHOR : 최지수, 최나야
INFORMATION : page. 281~311 / 2022 Vol.29 No.3
ABSTRACT
This study identifies the aspects of childcare, and cultural/leisure activities time use of 30s and 40s parents in their child rearing stage, and examines the effects of parents’ lifetime use and gender role attitudes on life satisfaction. Statistics Korea’s time diaries from the 2019 Korean Time Use Survey were used. Factor decomposition, frequency analysis, independent sample t-test, multivariate analysis of variance, and hierarchical multiple regression analysis were performed using Stata 14.0, SPSS 22.0, and Excel 2016. Mothers took care of their children for two and a half hours more on weekdays and one hour more on weekends than fathers. The time for cultural/leisure activities was shorter by one hour on weekends. Both parents devote the most time to ‘physical care’ among childcare and ‘activities using media’ among cultural/leisure activities. When both parents had an egalitarian gender role attitude, their fathers took the longest time to care for their children. When both parents had a traditional gender role attitude, their mothers spent the longest time on cultural/leisure activities. When only the father had an egalitarian gender role attitude, the mother’s life satisfaction was the highest. The father’s life satisfaction was affected by the cultural/leisure activities time of himself and his spouse, and the parent’s gender role attitude type had an effect on the mother’s life satisfaction.