In a worker ant society like 'merica or ussr too much free time stressful

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Post by aufbahrung » Fri Sep 17, 2021 6:27 pm

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... 124451.htm

Too much free time may be almost as bad as too little

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As an individual's free time increases, so does that person's sense of well-being -- but only up to a point. Too much free time can be also be a bad thing, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

"People often complain about being too busy and express wanting more time. But is more time actually linked to greater happiness? We found that having a dearth of discretionary hours in one's day results in greater stress and lower subjective well-being," said Marissa Sharif, PhD, an assistant professor of marketing at The Wharton School and lead author of the paper. "However, while too little time is bad, having more time is not always better."

The research was published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Researchers analyzed the data from 21,736 Americans who participated in the American Time Use Survey between 2012 and 2013. Participants provided a detailed account of what they did during the prior 24 hours -- indicating the time of day and duration of each activity -- and reported their sense of well-being. The researchers found that as free time increased, so did well-being, but it leveled off at about two hours and began to decline after five. Correlations in both directions were statistically significant.

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Post by Seabass » Fri Sep 17, 2021 6:45 pm

Was this study funded by Amazon? :suspicious:
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Post by JimC » Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:19 pm

It does seem to apply to life in boring lockdowns, at least for me. I doubt that parents of young children would have an excess of free time...
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Post by aufbahrung » Sat Sep 18, 2021 3:05 am

Listen to jazz, chill with a few beers. Could take me all day to empty the bins.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:01 am

Free time and having nothing to do are not the same thing.
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Post by Svartalf » Sun Sep 19, 2021 10:46 am

JimC wrote:
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It does seem to apply to life in boring lockdowns, at least for me. I doubt that parents of young children would have an excess of free time...
I have most of my time free and at my disposal, and it sure is better than when I worked at a job I hated and that gave me depression and burnout.
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Post by Svartalf » Sun Sep 19, 2021 10:48 am

Brian Peacock wrote:
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Free time and having nothing to do are not the same thing.
Depends what you call 'nothing to do'.
I mean, I have fewer chores than many (and am rather remiss in doing them), but when it's time to find stuff to occupy myself, I have little trouble, plenty of stuff I can do to pass the time.
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Post by aufbahrung » Sun Sep 19, 2021 12:08 pm

One mans chore is another mans monkeying about. All very subjective. But Americans are entrained by their media to have a short attention span so I guess two hours mush be way beyond their patience to have nothing to do...
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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:34 am

Svartalf wrote:
Sun Sep 19, 2021 10:48 am
Brian Peacock wrote:
Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:01 am
Free time and having nothing to do are not the same thing.
Depends what you call 'nothing to do'.
I mean, I have fewer chores than many (and am rather remiss in doing them), but when it's time to find stuff to occupy myself, I have little trouble, plenty of stuff I can do to pass the time.
Free time is time that you don't owe or are obliged to give to others - like when you're not a work and don't have to take your mother-in-law to her mamogram appointment etc. In free time you are free to fill your time however you want/can: whittling spoons from old chair legs, reading medieval French poetry, distilling raspberry wine, researching papers on 6σ quantum anomalies, wanking, painting watercolours of cats, experimenting with psychedelic drugs, learning to tap dance while juggling, whatever..

Literally having nothing to do is soul destroying for most people, and social anthropologists have observed that many people without free time - i.e. in a job - spend a lot of their un-free time with literally nothing useful to do, particularly in admin and middle-management positions. And so, when these people are not trying to look busy for the sake of form, they're given or create pointless meaningless tasks to justify their salaries and attendance in the workplace. IMO that is worse than idleness - that's a form of emotional/psychological abuse. Imagine what these people could be achieving if only they were allowed the time to do it?
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Post by Svartalf » Mon Sep 20, 2021 2:00 pm

You mean, like the period I had to clock at work in the morning, and stay the whole day, but had precisely no work to do because nobody in a position to do so would give me any? and I could not take out my book and read either?
Yeah, that period, I drank like a fish... and ended up falling deep enough back into depression that I simply stopped going to the office.
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Post by aufbahrung » Mon Sep 20, 2021 3:09 pm

Sean Hayden wrote:
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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Sep 20, 2021 3:21 pm

Svartalf wrote:
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You mean, like the period I had to clock at work in the morning, and stay the whole day, but had precisely no work to do because nobody in a position to do so would give me any? and I could not take out my book and read either?
Yeah, that period, I drank like a fish... and ended up falling deep enough back into depression that I simply stopped going to the office.
Exactly my point. You had nothing to do, but no free time either. This is hell for us 'creative types' isn't it? :hugs:
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Post by Svartalf » Mon Sep 20, 2021 4:56 pm

I'm not sure I'm a creative type, I'm more the absorbing type, but sure, stewing in my boredom with no relief in sight is sheer hell.
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Post by JimC » Mon Sep 20, 2021 9:05 pm

I remember my father saying to me as a boy "It's very handy to be a reader, it means you'll never be bored"

By reader, he meant book addict... :tea:
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