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A Longitudinal Dyadic Study of Six Leisure Activities in Swedish Couples During the Transition to Parenthood
Parents are not only caregivers to their children; they also have leisure routines that can impact their own well-being. However, little is known about how leisure activities change within the context of a couple during the transition to parenthood. This study uses latent growth curve models and dat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9951155/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36855639 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11199-023-01351-3 |
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author | Zheng, Lucy R. Naurin, Elin Markstedt, Elias Olander, Petrus Elden, Helen Linden, Karolina |
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description | Parents are not only caregivers to their children; they also have leisure routines that can impact their own well-being. However, little is known about how leisure activities change within the context of a couple during the transition to parenthood. This study uses latent growth curve models and data from the Swedish Pregnancy Panel to examine how often 918 first-time, heterosexual couples participated in six leisure activities from around pregnancy week 19 to one year postpartum. Compared to fathers, mothers less frequently exercised and listened to news, and more frequently read newspapers, spent time for themselves, and spent time with friends. Over time, mothers increased their frequency of praying to God and decreased spending time for themselves and with friends. Fathers decreased frequency of exercise. Within couples, there was a positive correlation between mothers’ and fathers’ frequency of engaging in leisure activities, although most changes over time were not associated. Our finding that two individuals within a couple may change their leisure activities independently of each other during the transition to parenthood can help healthcare professionals and researchers prepare expectant couples for upcoming changes (or lack thereof) and promote parent well-being. Our findings also highlight the possibility that in contexts with more state support for families, parenthood may not exacerbate gender gaps in leisure. |
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spelling | pubmed-99511552023-02-24 A Longitudinal Dyadic Study of Six Leisure Activities in Swedish Couples During the Transition to Parenthood Zheng, Lucy R. Naurin, Elin Markstedt, Elias Olander, Petrus Elden, Helen Linden, Karolina Sex Roles Original Article Parents are not only caregivers to their children; they also have leisure routines that can impact their own well-being. However, little is known about how leisure activities change within the context of a couple during the transition to parenthood. This study uses latent growth curve models and data from the Swedish Pregnancy Panel to examine how often 918 first-time, heterosexual couples participated in six leisure activities from around pregnancy week 19 to one year postpartum. Compared to fathers, mothers less frequently exercised and listened to news, and more frequently read newspapers, spent time for themselves, and spent time with friends. Over time, mothers increased their frequency of praying to God and decreased spending time for themselves and with friends. Fathers decreased frequency of exercise. Within couples, there was a positive correlation between mothers’ and fathers’ frequency of engaging in leisure activities, although most changes over time were not associated. Our finding that two individuals within a couple may change their leisure activities independently of each other during the transition to parenthood can help healthcare professionals and researchers prepare expectant couples for upcoming changes (or lack thereof) and promote parent well-being. Our findings also highlight the possibility that in contexts with more state support for families, parenthood may not exacerbate gender gaps in leisure. Springer US 2023-02-24 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9951155/ /pubmed/36855639 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11199-023-01351-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Article Zheng, Lucy R. Naurin, Elin Markstedt, Elias Olander, Petrus Elden, Helen Linden, Karolina A Longitudinal Dyadic Study of Six Leisure Activities in Swedish Couples During the Transition to Parenthood |
title | A Longitudinal Dyadic Study of Six Leisure Activities in Swedish Couples During the Transition to Parenthood |
title_full | A Longitudinal Dyadic Study of Six Leisure Activities in Swedish Couples During the Transition to Parenthood |
title_fullStr | A Longitudinal Dyadic Study of Six Leisure Activities in Swedish Couples During the Transition to Parenthood |
title_full_unstemmed | A Longitudinal Dyadic Study of Six Leisure Activities in Swedish Couples During the Transition to Parenthood |
title_short | A Longitudinal Dyadic Study of Six Leisure Activities in Swedish Couples During the Transition to Parenthood |
title_sort | longitudinal dyadic study of six leisure activities in swedish couples during the transition to parenthood |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9951155/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36855639 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11199-023-01351-3 |
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