Authors
Melanie Rudd
Publication date
2019
Journal
Current Opinion in Psychology
Volume
26
Issue
April
Pages
5-10
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Perceived time shortage increased from 1965 to the early 1990s, before plateauing.
- Despite a recent downward trend, feelings of time shortage remain pervasive.
- Feelings of time shortage are particularly acute among certain demographic groups.
- Perceived time shortage and busyness can have positive and negative consequences.
- Emerging topics include how to safeguard against or shift perceived time shortage.
This review highlights recent research on time shortage, which has been broadly classified into three streams. Building upon decades of time use survey and diary findings, the trends and demographics stream document the latest longitudinal changes in perceptions of time shortage (including a recent decline) and provides an increasingly clear picture of who is hardest hit by time shortage. Meanwhile, the consequences stream has underscored that although time shortage has myriad negative …
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M Rudd - Current Opinion in Psychology, 2019