![]() And we looked at the relationship between the amount of hours you have within your regular day-to-day life to spend on discretionary activities. So to answer that question, I recruited a couple of my favorite collaborators, Hal Hershfield and Marisa Sharif. Should I go ahead and quit my job? I can't really keep up at this pace.”īut the question is, would I feel happier if I had a whole lot more hours in my day to spend how I wanted? So, hours to spend on discretionary activities. And now the question is, what about the emotional ramifications? And, this research was actually motivated by a personal experience, as someone who falls into all of those demographic categories of being someone who works, with young kids, with a partner who works, I felt and feel particularly time poor. We also have some work showing that when people feel time poor, they become less confident in being able to achieve their goals. So in some of my work, we found that when people don't feel like they have a lot of time, they become very stingy with their time, less likely to spend time to help others. It makes them also less healthy because they're more likely to eat the fast food that is readily available and not necessarily healthy. And so, I will in a second get to our research that looks at the overall relationship between the amount of discretionary time people have and their happiness.īut pulling from across studies, including some of my own, looking at whether the effects of being time poor, research shows that it makes people less healthy because they're less likely to spend the time exercising. Individuals who do not work and individuals who don't have kids are also subject to feeling time poor. But it's not just being a parent or working. And folks who are working, who have a partner who works, with young kids are perhaps the most time poor. Folks who are working tend to feel particularly impoverished. Women tend to feel more time poor than men. In a national poll that I just conducted, we found that nearly half of Americans report feeling time poor. And, it's also a very pervasive experience. ![]() And it is a negative experience and it has negative consequences. So, time poverty is defined as the acute feeling of having too much to do and not enough time to do it. What do those terms mean? What makes somebody time poor or time affluent? Is it just the amount of leisure time that you have? Mills: You study time poverty and time affluence. It aims to provide a research based practical guide on how to think about time and how to spend your time to live a happier life. Her new book is called Happier Hour: How To Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time and Focus On What Matters Most. Her research has been published in top psychology journals and covered by media outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio. She studies time and happiness, including such questions as how focusing on time or money affects happiness and how the meaning of happiness changes over one's lifetime. Cassie Holmes, a professor of marketing and behavioral decision making at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. Welcome to Speaking Of Psychology, the flagship podcast of the American Psychological Association that examines the links between psychological science and everyday life. So is there an ideal amount of free time? Is it possible to have too much free time or too little? Who's happier, people who focus on the value of time or those who focus on the value of money? And are there ways to increase your sense of time affluence without making a major change like quitting your job? Is it possible to make time sucking chores like housework and commuting seem less onerous? And that it's not the amount of time that you have, but how you spend it that determines your happiness. But research suggests that the relationship between leisure time and contentment is not so straightforward. ![]() Kim Mills: Do you ever feel like there aren't enough hours in the day for you to do the things you want to do? Pressed by endless work and family obligations, have you ever dreamed of quitting this life and moving to a remote beach, where you could read, paint, play music, or just veg? When we feel time poor, endless hours to do whatever we please sounds like the ultimate luxury. ![]()
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