week 2 Flashcards
categories of time use
necessary time
contracted time
committed time
free time
waist necessary time
personal care activities
whats contracted time
paid work and educational activities
what committed time
eg domestic activities, child care, purchasing activities, voluntary work and care activities
whats free time
eg recreation and leisure actives and social participation
intrinsic factors of time usage
- Personality/temperament
- Preference- how did they develop
- Skills, abilities, knowledge
- Basic needs
- Health/illness, disability
- Biological rhythms (circadian rhythms, morningness and eveningness- diurnal types)
- Age, gender, socioeconomic status
- Values/attitudes/meaning given to what we do
extrinsic factors of time use
- Zeitgebers- time giver- the outside influences on our internal clock
- Physical zeitgebers: daylight, noise
- Social zeitgebers: mealtimes, bedtime rituals
- Resources available
- Environment (physical, social, political)
- Cultural influence
define temporality
concerns the temporal character of occupation that are imbued with meaning ni relation to one’s sense of past (memory), present (direct perception) and future (expectations).
what a quantitive study
- Objective
- Etic perspective (outside)
- How much time do people spend in occupations eg number of hours, minutes
what a qualitative study
- Subjective
- Emic perspective (insider)
- How do people experience time spent in occupations? Eg easy time, hard time, wasting time, busy time.
whats methods for understanding time use
time use diary
experience sampling metholodly
ocupaitonla questionaire
whats a time use diary
requires the participator to complete a log or diary of th sequence and duration of activities engaged in typically for 24 hours. They can indicate the impact of disability on participation in activities and an indicator of the quality of life.
whats a experience sampling methodology ESM
makes use of the sampling strategy of psot sampling while avoiding the problems associated with the intrusive observer. Brings in the environmental context. Allows to correlate environmental context with subjective experience.Designed to study both persons and situations simultaneously
Data can be analysed to:
Estimate how much time is spend doing various activities dur waking hours.
Explore interaction of the person with their environment
- What people do all day , where and with whom
- How people report experiencing different moments in their lives
whats an occupational questionaire
- Self report but can be administered as a semi structured interview
- Clients indicate what activities they engage in over the course of a weekday or weekend day
- Recorded in half hour periods
- Use with adolescents or adults
- Assist clients examine activity patterns and identify areas for change
method for understand ing tempo
- Morningness-eveningness questioner
- Accelerometer eg Fitbit
- Smartphone apps for monitoring menstrual cycle etc.