This subproject proposes a methodological and analytical study of time use in a sample of middle-agedand older married couples who participate in the PSID. The overarching goals are:1) to assess thefeasibility of including time diaries for adults on a larger scale in the PSID, and 2) to produce a rich andnationally-focused data archive to support innovative research on disability, time use, and well-being formarried couples ages 50 and older. To achieve these goals, we will carry out five specific aims. First,developmental efforts will be undertaken at the Institute for Social Research to determine how best to buildupon established time diary methods. Second, time diaries will be collected in computer-assisted telephoneinterviews from 400 married couples ages 50 and older drawn from the 2009 wave of the PSID, withoversampling of couples in which one or both have a disability. Same-day interviews will be obtained forhusbands and wives for one random weekday and one random weekend day so that 1,600 diaries will becompleted in all. Third, feasibility of a wide-scale PSID time diary collection will be evaluated based on bothqualitative (e.g., debriefing of interviewers) and quantitative (e.g., response rates, length of scheduling time,synchronicity of interviews, missing data) evidence. Fourth, the PSID will make these data available onlinethrough its public use Data Center, thereby allowing the research community to investigate a range ofquestions related to disability, time use,and well-being. Fifth, the project team will answer targeted analyticand measurement questions related to: a) How does disability influence time use and related patterns ofaffect?; b) How do different approaches to accommodating functional decline influence time use and relatedaffect?; and,c) How does disability influence synchronization of time use among couples? The proposed approach is unique in several respects. Time diaries have never been collected from anational sample of couples to purposefully study disability in mid and late life. Several innovationstheintention to interview spouses about the same day, the addition of affect, attention to how activities arecarried out (with help and/or assistive technology), and measures of care giving as a secondary activitywillallow investigators to study a broad range of questions related to couples' accommodation of functionaldecline. The project also will lay groundwork for widespread time diary collection in the PSID. The leader and principal investigator of this project is Vicki A. Freedman.
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| Wang, Huixia; Wang, Chenggang; Halliday, Timothy J (2018) Health and health inequality during the great recession: Evidence from the PSID. Econ Hum Biol 29:17-30 |
| Lucas, Richard E; Freedman, Vicki A; Cornman, Jennifer C (2018) The short-term stability of life satisfaction judgments. Emotion 18:1024-1031 |
| Gilligan, Megan; Karraker, Amelia; Jasper, Angelica (2018) Linked Lives and Cumulative Inequality: A Multigenerational Family Life Course Framework. Fam Relat 10:111-125 |
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| Friedman, Esther M; Park, Sung S; Wiemers, Emily E (2017) New Estimates of the Sandwich Generation in the 2013 Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Gerontologist 57:191-196 |
| Wiemers, Emily E; Slanchev, Vladislav; McGarry, Kathleen et al. (2017) Living Arrangements of Mothers and Their Adult Children Over the Life Course. Res Aging 39:111-134 |
| Carr, Deborah; Cornman, Jennifer C; Freedman, Vicki A (2017) Disability and Activity-related Emotion in Later Life: Are Effects Buffered by Intimate Relationship Support and Strain? J Health Soc Behav 58:387-403 |
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