Abstract
AbstractThis chapter reviews national survey data concerning the free-time activities of Americans in the latter third of the 20th century. It focuses both on the amounts of free time Americans have (and its relations to time spent on non-free-time activities) and on the specific activities done in that free time. Activities done during free time include: use of television, home computers and other media; social activities; arts participation; and sport and exercise. Time-diary research in the USA since 1965 has documented several shifts in free time that are surprising or counterintuitive in light of today's perceived 'time famine'. Perhaps most striking is the increase in free time, made possible by decreased paid work (for men) and unpaid 'housework' (for women). At the same time, US survey respondents increasingly reported being 'rushed' or stressed, since the 1960s, although there are signs of some turnaround in such time-pressured perceptions in the late 1990s.
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