Older Couples’ Joint and Separate Leisure Time and Daily Mood: Results From the Korean Time Use Survey
Kyungmin Kim, Seung-Eun Cha, Meng Huo

TL;DR
This study explores how older married adults in Korea spend leisure time together or separately and how it affects their daily moods.
Contribution
The study reveals gender differences in how joint and separate leisure time affects daily mood in older couples.
Findings
Husbands reported more leisure time than wives, both together with and apart from their spouses.
Joint leisure time was positively linked to husbands' daily mood but not wives'.
Wives' separate leisure time improved both their own and their husbands' moods.
Abstract
As demands from work and family decline, older adults typically focus more on leisure activities and time with their spouses. However, less is known about how older married adults engage in leisure activities (i.e., together with or apart from a spouse) and its cross-spousal associations with daily mood within couples. This study utilized couple data from the 2019 Korean Time Use Survey. Both spouses of older couple households (aged 65 − 94; N = 1,174) completed 2-day time diaries, reporting all leisure activities (e.g., social meetings, eating out, exercise) performed in 10-minute intervals each day and indicating the presence of spouse for each time slot. We examined how much time respondents spent on leisure activities together with or separately from their spouses on a daily basis and how their joint and separate leisure time was associated with daily mood. On average, husbands…
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Taxonomy
TopicsRecreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Health disparities and outcomes · Physical Activity and Health
