Higher Education and Leisure Time

Did you know that several recent studies show that people with a higher level of education tend to have more time to spend on leisure activities? As an aside, they also have more disposable income with which to fund their leisure time activities.

There are two ways to track changes and trends for leisure and entertainment –expenditures of money and expenditures of time. What was found is a growing social stratification – higher income households are increasing in those expenditures while lower income households have declining expenditures. Now we will take a look at changes to the time Americans spend at leisure activities, and especially at away-from-home entertainment.

Without getting into a lot of statistics and details, what the researchers found is that between 1965 and 2003, the amount of time adults spend in pure leisure and social leisure decreased for both men and women and the amount of fragmented leisure time increased. The authors of one research paper summarized it this way, "In stark contrast with the changing amount of leisure, most of our quality indicators show declines in the quality of leisure time over this period for both men and women... Despite general increases in leisure time, Americans report feeling increasingly harried now compared with 40 years ago."

Today, more than ever in a context where dollars for leisure time are stretched and give way to individualism, we must reaffirm our commitment to keep educational progress moving forward to new education levels where we learn to "live better and well” and where we can work on our own social transformation.

It is widely known that the physical, intellectual health and education level of the younger generation represents a state of well-being, emotional stability, increased income and a positive self-image, as compared to addictions, which reflect an affective disorder, a fractured self-image at the emotional level, which is supposed to occur from the lack of leisure time preoccupations.

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