Event History Analysis on Cessation of leisure activities Among Married South Korean Women from 2007 to 2018

March 31, 2023  |  Vol.9, No.3  |  PP. 213-226  | PDF

AUTHORS:

Daseul Kim, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Eunhye Kim, Business and technology management, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

KEYWORDS:

Event History Analysis, Married Couples, Marital Life, South Korean Married Women, Leisure Activities

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore whether couples share the same amount of time together participating in leisure activities throughout their marital life. The results of the study revealed that, there are three contributing factors (financial, satisfaction with household labor distribution, and number of children in the family) that greatly affect the cessation of married couples’ shared leisure activities. The importance of this study is to explore how long married couples engage in leisure activities together and when they stop doing so, as this relates to their overall marital quality of life. Quantitative methodology as the research design was used to analyze the data, specifically adopting the survival function through event history analysis. The study focuses on married women; thus, it utilized secondary data comprising public data from the Korean Longitudinal Survey of Women and Families on South Korean Women from 2007 to 2018. In this process, R was used for data preprocessing, and STATA statistical program was used for data analysis. The implication of this study is the need for policies that encourage young married couples to continue their leisure activities to enhance their overall well-being, marital satisfaction, and happiness because most of them ended up ceasing time of leisure activities within two years.

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Citations:

APA:
Kim, D., Kim, E. (2023). Event History Analysis on Cessation of leisure activities Among Married South Korean Women from 2007 to 2018. Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange (APJCRI), ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), KCTRS, 9(3), 213-226. doi: 10.47116/apjcri.2023.03.18.

MLA:
Kim, Daseul, et al. “Event History Analysis on Cessation of leisure activities Among Married South Korean Women from 2007 to 2018.” Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange, ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), KCTRS, vol. 9, no. 3, 2023, pp. 213-226. APJCRI, http://apjcriweb.org/content/v9n3/18.html.

IEEE:
[1] D. Kim, E. Kim, “Event History Analysis on Cessation of leisure activities Among Married South Korean Women from 2007 to 2018.” Asia-pacific Journal of Convergent Research Interchange (APJCRI), ISSN: 2508-9080 (Print); 2671-5325 (Online), KCTRS, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 213-226, March 2023.