Published online Jul 26, 2023. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v11.i21.5097
Peer-review started: March 17, 2023
First decision: May 12, 2023
Revised: March 23, 2023
Accepted: July 3, 2023
Article in press: July 3, 2023
Published online: July 26, 2023
Single-parent families face not only economic poverty but also time poverty due to the absence of a spouse.
Single-parent families have time issues for a variety of reasons, so it's important to identify what time issues they have so that you can address them.
We wanted to categorize single-parent families by occupational area to examine their time use and understand their sense of time deficiency and life satisfaction.
This study utilized microdata from Statistics Korea to categorize single-parent households and understand their time use.
Single-parent families differed in the amount of time spent on each occupational area by sex, and while they did not differ in life satisfaction, they did differ in their perceived lack of time.
The findings on the time use characteristics of single-parent families by sex should be used to explore ways to address time poverty.
It is hoped that our findings on the time use of single-parent families by occupational area will serve as a basis for addressing time poverty.