Family leisure and subjective well-being: Do patterns and timing matter?

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Chen-Yueh Chen
Yi-Hsiu Lin
Chen-Yin Lee
Yen-Kuang Lin
Wen-Ing Chen
Jing-Rong Shih
Cite this article:  Chen, C., Lin, Y., Lee, C., Lin, Y., Chen, W., & Shih, J. (2019). Family leisure and subjective well-being: Do patterns and timing matter?. Social Behavior and Personality: An international journal, 47(9), e8396.


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We examined the relationship between family leisure and subjective well-being by exploring the type and timing of family leisure activities. We used convenience sampling to recruit 711 adolescents, and conducted a hierarchical linear regression and one-way analysis of variance for data analysis. Results showed that participants who were more involved in a high number of either core or balance family leisure activities had higher subjective well-being. In addition, participants (vs. their counterparts involved in few core or balance family leisure activities) highly involved in both core and balance family leisure activities had higher subjective well-being. Further, participants (vs. all their counterparts) involved in the fewest family leisure activities all year round had lower subjective well-being. These results implied that participants’ subjective well-being was correlated with patterns and timing of family leisure. Education practitioners and parents should be aware that subjective well-being can be improved by appropriate allocation of time spent on different types of family leisure activities.

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