Impact of ADHD on Household Chores Spaulding, Sarah L.; Fruitman, Kate; Rapoport, Eli ...
Journal of attention disorders,
08/2021, Volume:
25, Issue:
10
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Objective: To assess the relationship between ADHD and performance of household chores. Method: A 72-question online questionnaire was developed to collect demographic/clinical information as well as ...parents’ assessment of their child’s performance of self-care (SC) and family-care (FC) chores. Results: The sample consists of 797 primary caregivers of children with ADHD. The overwhelming majority of parents believed that ADHD to some extent affected their child’s ability to independently and satisfactorily complete SC and FC chores. An inverse relationship was noted between parent ratings of a child’s ability to do chores independently and satisfactorily and the likelihood they believed ADHD affected chore performance. There was no difference in chore performance between children with or without co-morbid oppositional defiant disorder. Conclusion: Given that household routines, including chores, play an important role in children’s development and psychosocial adjustment, clinicians must be sensitive to the adverse impact that ADHD may have in this regard.
In the cake cutting problem, a cake needs to be divided among players with possibly different valuations for different pieces of the cake. We consider a variation where the cake represents chores ...that need to be allocated. We assume the players to be work-averse, i.e., intending to get as little of the cake as possible. We further assume that the chores are indivisible and that they are ordered along a line. We seek a fair allocation of the chores.
We study the loss in social welfare due to fairness using the price of fairness concept. Previous work has considered fair division of cakes and chores with non-connected and connected pieces as well as fair division of indivisible contiguous blocks of indivisible items (with positive utility) on a line. We complete the picture by providing price of fairness results for the allocation of contiguous blocks of indivisible chores.
•Household is an important physical activity resource in older adults’ daily life.•Older adults’ HPA and SWB had a positive association.•Engaging in HPA is a good approach for increasing old adults’ ...self-rated health.•HPA is recommended for old couples to maintain marital satisfaction.•Older adults living in China and South Korea had higher HPA than others.
Engaging in lifelong physical activity has multiple health benefits for older populations. Household physical activity occupies older adults’ awake time, and they can be an important energy expenditure during the day. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between older adults’ household physical activity and subjective well-being in four East Asian societies.
The study design was a secondary data analysis. Data were retrieved from the module of Families 2016 in the database of the East Asian Social Survey. Participants were community-dwelling older adults with a mean age of 70.30±7.50 years and who lived in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Data were collected by interviews via structured questionnaires between 2016 and 2018. Descriptive analyses, independent t-tests, and an analysis of covariance were performed for the statistical analyses.
In total, there were 3,432 valid responses. Participants who lived in Taiwan had significantly lower levels of total household physical activity than those living in other societies. Older adults’ household physical activity was found to significantly differ by age, educational degree, gender, religion, marital status, occupation, and whether living alone. Older adults with high levels of household physical activity had significantly higher self-rated health and marital satisfaction than those with low levels.
Household physical activity has potential benefits for subjective well-being across international older adult populations. Increasing household physical activity is recommended for older married couples to maintain marital satisfaction.
Housework is a key area of research across many academic fields as it represents the intersection of micro- and macro-level gender dynamics. Despite many shifts in both women's and men's economic ...activities, and men's changing gender beliefs, women remain largely responsible for the management and performance of domestic labor. Given the relationship between paid employment and household work, this research describes patterns of women's and men's housework before, during, and after the Great Recession. Using American Time Use Survey data, I perform latent profile analysis to document the distributions of housework tasks and time for women and men across these three time periods. While women perform the majority of housework across the time frame, women and men converge in their time during the Recession. Further, men's time becomes more varied and more similar to women's Post-Recession. The findings in this research brief highlight the connections between macro-level change and micro-level behavior.
We initiate the work on maximin share (MMS) fair allocation of
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Background: While many studies research factors that affect Instrumental Activities of Daily Living after stroke, few studies research factors that affect domestic chores after stroke. This study ...aims to investigate factors that affect domestic chores after stroke. Methods: In this cohort study, 29 stroke patients were followed from the time they entered the rehabilitation ward to one month after discharge. Participants were included if they had been independently doing domestic chores before stroke onset and were independently walking inside the hospital after stroke onset. Variables were selected from demographics, physical function, cognitive function, psychological function, and functioning. The Spearman correlation between the domestic chores score of the Frenchay Activities Index (FAI) after stroke and variables was calculated. Results: The Timed Up and Go test (r = 0.41, p = 0.03), the Stroke Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (r = 0.54, p < 0.01) and the Functional Independence Measure motor domain (r = 0.57, p < 0.01) were significantly associated with the domestic chores domain of the FAI. Unlike previous studies, cognitive function and depression also didn't show a statistical relationship with domestic chores after stroke. Conclusion: Our results show that stroke patients should improve their self-efficacy to resume domestic chores after stroke, in addition to physical and cognitive functions. The results are also consistent with previous studies about the research relationship between self-efficacy and functioning.
Domestic chores are a topic of great interest for couple relationships since they are a source of conflict between intimate partners. The purpose of the present research is to investigate offering ...and asking for help with domestic chores and the respondents' tendency to be intuitive or verbal or to do chores alone. A vignette applied to children and married adults. The respondents were 116 boys and 116 girls and 110 male partners and 300 female partners, who completed individual questionnaires, online using Google Forms, regarding helping behaviour. Research findings indicate that men are more verbal and women are more intuitive when offering help, but when asking for help with domestic chores, men and women are statistically similar. The present research raises questions about the role of gender differences in couple relationships, and about educational solutions for couples and provides opportunities for future research.
Using three-annual-wave, dyadic data from different-gender, dual-earner couples in the United States (
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= 904 couples), we delineated associations between work-family conflict and housework ...division for husbands and wives across COVID-19 and tested the moderating role of each spouse’s traditional gender attitudes in these associations. We used the conservation of resource theory and family systems theory as guiding frameworks. Couples were from a nationally representative sample of married couples recruited using a two-stage cluster stratification strategy. Using a random-intercept, actor-partner interdependence, cross-lagged panel model, we found bidirectional, longitudinal associations among changes in work-family conflicts and perceived fairness of housework division across the transition caused by COVID-19. Specifically, increased work-family conflicts predicted the perception of increased unfairness in housework division and vice versa, and changes experienced by husbands were predictive for both spouses. We also found husbands’ (not wives’) more traditional gender attitudes exaggerated the associations between increased work-family conflicts and the perception of more unfairness. We advocate for efforts to facilitate work-family balance and to promote more egalitarian gender attitudes, which is especially crucial because the COVID-19 pandemic and other social changes have reshaped work and family lives and gender role attitudes around the world.
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