"Sometimes I feel like a hamster on a wheel": Stress in daily life of family people in Iceland
The aim of the study was to look at work-life balance in Icelandic families and to what extent parents experience stress in their daily lives. For the ninth year in a row, Iceland is at the top of the Gender Gap Index. This indicates that Iceland has been successful when it comes to gender equality...
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fticelandunivojs:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/3863 2023-11-12T03:59:58+01:00 "Sometimes I feel like a hamster on a wheel": Stress in daily life of family people in Iceland „Mér finnst ég stundum eins og hamstur í hjóli“: Streita í daglegu lífi fjölskyldufólks á Íslandi Hjálmsdóttir, Andrea Einarsdóttir, Marta 2023-10-20 application/pdf https://ojs.hi.is/index.php/tf/article/view/3863 isl ice School of Social Sciences https://ojs.hi.is/index.php/tf/article/view/3863/2439 https://ojs.hi.is/index.php/tf/article/view/3863 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 The Icelandic Society; Vol. 10 No. 1 (2019): Issue of 2019; 4--20 Íslenska þjóðfélagið; Bnd. 10 Nr. 1 (2019): Árshefti 2019; 4--20 samræming fjölskyldu og atvinnu streita jafnrétti kynjanna verkaskipting stytting vinnuviku work-life balance stress gender equality division of labor shorter work week info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Ritrýnd grein 2023 fticelandunivojs 2023-10-25T22:54:52Z The aim of the study was to look at work-life balance in Icelandic families and to what extent parents experience stress in their daily lives. For the ninth year in a row, Iceland is at the top of the Gender Gap Index. This indicates that Iceland has been successful when it comes to gender equality in terms of women´s economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health, survival, and political empowerment. At the same time we increasingly see news about people experiencing stress in their daily lives, burning out at work and suffering from stress related diseases. Research shows that despite their high level of labour force participation, Icelandic women still do a greater share of domestic work and child care than men. Parents in Iceland have been found to desire a shorter work week, which indicates that they find it challenging to balance work and family life. To explore this further, focus group interviews were conducted in Akureyri and Reykjavík, with three groups of women and three groups of men. Both men and women described stress in their daily lives, but women more so than men. Meeting the demands of work, a clean home, and children´s school and after school activities was described as often exhausting. All groups expressed a strong wish for a shorter work week, in order to relieve stress and increase the quality of family life. Meginmarkmið þessarar rannsóknar er að skoða með eigindlegum aðferðum hvort fjölskyldufólk upplifir streitu í hinu daglega lífi við samræmingu fjölskyldu og atvinnulífs og hvort munur sé á reynslu karla og kvenna hvað það varðar. Hátt í áratug hefur Ísland trónað á toppi lista Alþjóðaefnahagsráðsins sem mælir jafnrétti kynjanna hvað varðar efnahag, pólitíska stöðu, menntun og heilbrigði. Ljóst má vera að góður árangur hefur náðst þegar kemur að kynjajafnrétti á ákveðnum sviðum samfélagsins. Á sama tíma koma tíðari fréttir af aukinni streitu í daglegu lífi og aukinni tíðni kulnunar í starfi og streitutengdra sjúkdóma. Rannsóknir hér á landi benda til þess að ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Akureyri Akureyri Akureyri Iceland Reykjavík Reykjavík University of Iceland: Peer Reviewed Journals Akureyri Kvenna ENVELOPE(18.430,18.430,69.216,69.216) Reykjavík |
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samræming fjölskyldu og atvinnu streita jafnrétti kynjanna verkaskipting stytting vinnuviku work-life balance stress gender equality division of labor shorter work week Hjálmsdóttir, Andrea Einarsdóttir, Marta "Sometimes I feel like a hamster on a wheel": Stress in daily life of family people in Iceland |
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The aim of the study was to look at work-life balance in Icelandic families and to what extent parents experience stress in their daily lives. For the ninth year in a row, Iceland is at the top of the Gender Gap Index. This indicates that Iceland has been successful when it comes to gender equality in terms of women´s economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health, survival, and political empowerment. At the same time we increasingly see news about people experiencing stress in their daily lives, burning out at work and suffering from stress related diseases. Research shows that despite their high level of labour force participation, Icelandic women still do a greater share of domestic work and child care than men. Parents in Iceland have been found to desire a shorter work week, which indicates that they find it challenging to balance work and family life. To explore this further, focus group interviews were conducted in Akureyri and Reykjavík, with three groups of women and three groups of men. Both men and women described stress in their daily lives, but women more so than men. Meeting the demands of work, a clean home, and children´s school and after school activities was described as often exhausting. All groups expressed a strong wish for a shorter work week, in order to relieve stress and increase the quality of family life. Meginmarkmið þessarar rannsóknar er að skoða með eigindlegum aðferðum hvort fjölskyldufólk upplifir streitu í hinu daglega lífi við samræmingu fjölskyldu og atvinnulífs og hvort munur sé á reynslu karla og kvenna hvað það varðar. Hátt í áratug hefur Ísland trónað á toppi lista Alþjóðaefnahagsráðsins sem mælir jafnrétti kynjanna hvað varðar efnahag, pólitíska stöðu, menntun og heilbrigði. Ljóst má vera að góður árangur hefur náðst þegar kemur að kynjajafnrétti á ákveðnum sviðum samfélagsins. Á sama tíma koma tíðari fréttir af aukinni streitu í daglegu lífi og aukinni tíðni kulnunar í starfi og streitutengdra sjúkdóma. Rannsóknir hér á landi benda til þess að ... |
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"Sometimes I feel like a hamster on a wheel": Stress in daily life of family people in Iceland |
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"Sometimes I feel like a hamster on a wheel": Stress in daily life of family people in Iceland |
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