TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Dethier, Erik
A1  - Stevens, Gunnar
A1  - Boden, Alexander
T1  - The Burden of Administrative Household Labor—Measuring Temporal Workload, Mental Workload, and Satisfaction
JF  - Social Sciences
N2  - This research paper investigates the temporal and mental workload as well as work satisfaction regarding bureaucratic, administrative household labor, with a focus on socio-demographic differences. The study utilizes a paid online survey with 617 socio-demographically distributed participants. The results show significant differences in the temporal workload of different chore categories and in the quality of work, whereby satisfaction and mental workload are examined. In addition, the influences of gender, age, and education are analyzed, revealing differences in temporal and mental workload as well as work satisfaction. Our findings confirm prevailing literature showing that women have lower work satisfaction and a higher workload. In addition, we also discovered that younger people and groups of people with higher incomes have a higher level of satisfaction and a higher workload. In our study, a perceived high mental workload does not necessarily go hand in hand with a low level of satisfaction. This study contributes to the understanding of the bureaucratic burden on adults in their households and the variety of activities to manage private life.
KW  - life admin
KW  - gender
KW  - work satisfaction
KW  - Household management
KW  - cognitive labor
KW  - family
KW  - Workload
Y1  - 2024
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:1044-opus-85609
SN  - 2076-0760
SS  - 2076-0760
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13080404
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13080404
VL  - 13
IS  - 8
SP  - 25
S1  - 25
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -