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Parents' Time Allocation: A Comparison Of Households Headed By One And Two Parents

Virginia T. Rowland

Family Life Studies and Home Economics Education, University of Southern Mississippi, Southern Station Box 10013, Hattiesburg,, MS 39406-0013

Sharon Y. Nickols

School of Human Resources and Family Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 274 Bevier Hall, Urbana, IL 61801-3698

Richard A. Dodder

Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078

Patterns of recalled time allocation of parents were examined for 29 divorced mothers in one-parent households and for 30 mothers and 30 fathers married and jointly heading two-parent households. Correlations of time spent on six catego ries-employment/unpaid work, household work, family care, leisure, personal maintenance, and a miscellaneous category-indicated that time spent in em ployment/unpaid work was significantly (p ≤ 0.05) associated with different cate gories of time use for different groups of parents but had a greater impact on time allocations of divorced mothers than on either group of married parents. Analysis of variance of the six categories of time allocation indicated that divorced mothers and two-parent fathers were significantly (p ≤ 0.05) different from two- parent mothers in time allocated to employment/unpaid work, household work, and leisure. But mothers in both family types spent significantly (p < 0.05) more time on care of family members than did two-parent fathers.

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, 105-114 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X8601500204
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