期刊名称：Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research
电子版ISSN：1860-9937
出版年度：2014
卷号：11
页码：43-56
出版社：University of Lueneburg
摘要：We spend about one-third of our life sleeping, which is essential for our physical and mental health. Researchverified that both too much and too little sleep is associated with poor health, while the “golden mean” seems tobe ideal. In general, sleep time forms a U-shaped curve over the life span. In our busy lifestyle, we can observethe conversion of sleep time to waking activities. In addition, some dimensions of social inequality may influencesleeping habits. At the same time, sleeping has a relation with families’ lifecycles, with working time, andwith income, as well. In this paper we focus on the relationship between sleep and work-related time. Studies ofsleep time are based on two types of theoretical traditions, one of which relies on rational choice theory, whilethe other emphasizes the role of the social structural elements. We argue that the two theoretical frameworks donot contradict. Our results, that based on the Hungarian Time Use Survey, reveal that rational calculation is determinant,but we also found evidences of structural effects.Our main finding is that sleep time is strongly linkedto the degree of integration in the labour market.
关键词：Health; time allocation; sleeping time; labour market; family; gender; childcare
