Perceptions of Adequate Personal Time and Wellbeing among African American Families with Adolescents

Autor:	Ronald D. Taylor, Mia Budescu, Amanda Sisselman-Borgia
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	African american media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Leisure time 050109 social psychology Conservation of resources theory Metropolitan area Developmental psychology Optimism 050902 family studies Perception Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0509 other social sciences Life-span and Life-course Studies Association (psychology) Psychology Personal time media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Child and Family Studies. 27:1763-1773
ISSN:	1573-2843 1062-1024
DOI:	10.1007/s10826-018-1014-7
Popis:	The current study examines the perception of adequate personal or leisure time, and its association with family and caregiver functioning, among a sample of low-income African American families. The investigation is grounded in Conservation of Resources (COR) theory which predicts that caregivers who perceive more adequate personal time will also report higher levels of optimism and lower levels of depressive symptoms, and will have adolescents who report more household routines and less psychologically controlling parenting. A total of 115 caregiver-adolescent (age 14–18) dyads were recruited from a low-income, predominantly African American neighborhood in a major metropolitan center in the United States as part of a larger survey on African American family life. Results indicate that caregivers report perceiving inadequate amounts of time to sleep, get enough exercise, and relax. Caregivers also report comparatively less adequate personal time than time with children. Analyses reveal that caregivers who perceive having more adequate leisure or personal time, report fewer depressive symptoms and higher levels of optimism, after controlling for perceptions of adequate financial resources. Alternatively, there was no association between perceptions of free or leisure time and parenting behaviors, including maintenance of household routines and the use of psychological control. The results underscore the need to examine non-material resources, and their association with wellbeing.
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