첫 자녀의 연령에 따른 맞벌이 부부의 가족 내 행위별 사용시간비율 및 관련 요인

How Husbands and Wives in Dual-earner Families Respond to Time Demands in Households: A Family Life Cycle Perspective

This study analyzed the share of husband s time in dual-earner couple s total time spent on sleep, personal care, leisure, and household unpaid labor (including childcare and housework), and what factors were associated with the change in husband s time share by taking a family life cycle perspective. In doing so, a total of 1,722 time diaries written by 1,407 matched couples on weekdays were extracted from the 2014 Korean Time Use Survey data. The sample was categorized by the age of the eldest child into four age groups of 0-6, 7-12, 13-18, and 19-29. Analytic results showed that, first, husband s share in couple s total time spent on sleep, leisure, and household labor differed depending on children s age groups, with husband s share increasing in sleep and leisure time, whereas decreasing in household labor time as children grew. Second, different factors were associated with the increase in husband s time share not only among sleep, personal care, leisure and household labor, but also with the growing of the child. These findings reflect the time redistribution strategies taken by dual-earner couples in order to respond to the changing time demands in households as the family developed, and supported the arguments suggesting more active role of wives than husbands in redistribution of time to household labor from other spheres within the family.