A sample of 492 children and adolescents analyzed to determine differences in time use shows that males spend more time in leisure activities and less time in household work and personal care than do females. (DM)

Montreal college students (n=457) rated 21 life domains (for example, education, friends, leisure, health) in terms of degree of importance, frequency of involvement, and level of impact. The list of domains significantly related to life satisfaction proved to be much broader for females than for males. (DM)

Twenty families in the San Francisco Bay area (California) with new Atari home video game sets were studied from February through June 1981 to obtain data on how the game-playing affected family interaction. Records of play were kept for one week each month and each family member was interviewed at the beginning and the end of the study. It was…

This paper reports to attempt to replicate in Britain Britton and Tesser's (1991) study of the relationship between scores on a time management scale and college grades using a larger sample size and a British (rather than American) student population. Subjects were 302 psychology students who completed the 18-item scale after their first term of…

Specific questions addressed in this study include how time limits affect a test's construct and predictive validities, how time limits affect an examinee's time allocation and test performance, and whether the assumption about how examinees answer items is valid. Interactions involving an examinee's sex and age are studied. Two parallel forms of…