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2021 Seung-Eun Cha Citation: Seung-Eun Cha. 2021. "How Do They Do It? : Utilizing the Formal Elderly Care Services from the Perspective of Family Caregiver" Korea Journal of Population Studies 44(3): 23:-42 DOI: 10.31693/KJPS.2021.09.44.3.23 Language: Korean Publishing Institution: Korea Journal of Population Studies Publication Date: 2021. 09 Keywords: Formal Care, Informal Family Care, Long-term Care Service, Paid Care Service Hours The purpose of this study is to understand how and when families decide to utilize formal care services. This study used data of 499 family caregivers employed from 2018 Korean Elderly and Child Care Family Survey. Based on the logistic regression model results, the study found out that the elderly’s bad health status, the longer duration of caregiving, and the shorter hours of the preferred time of the main caregiver were significantly associated with the rate of using formal care service and the amount of hours used for paid service. Logistic regression analysis revealed that elderly recipients’ LTCI grade, duration of care, preferred amount of care time, other family memeber’s financial and intstrumental support was associated with formal care service utility. Tobit analysis revealed that caregiver’s sex, age, and the amount of actual care hours are significant factors associated with the formal care service utility. If the caregiver was female, relatively young, and spent longer care hours, care service hours were short. However, the hours of use of care services were long if there was financial help from other family members. Results may provide meaningful information in understanding the process and context of coordinating formal care with informal family care.
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2020 Seung-eun Cha, Georgios PapastefanouCitation: Cha, S., & Papastefanou, G. (2020). Understanding the Time Pressure of Working Parents: How Parents’ Childcare Time Impacts the Diurnal Organization of Activities and the Sense of Feeling Rushed. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 51(1): 110-130. doi:10.3138/jcfs.51.1.006Language: EnglishJournal: Journal of Comparative Family StudiesPublication Date: 2020. 04. 15Keywords: time burden, time use structure, child care time, joint parenting, care workAbstract: Time pressure of parents has become an important policy agenda in many contemporary societies. This study aims to examine the association between parental childcare time and subjective time pressure (feeling rushed) by taking into account different types of diurnal activity patterns. From the background of time fragmentation as a structural source of time pressure we introduce two specific types of diurnal time use activities, namely activity resumption and activity switching. As activity resumption denotes that the same kind of activity is repeatedly shown over the day, activity switching indicates the diurnal substantive variety of activities. Our research question is aimed a examining if these activity patterns covariate with parental childcare time use and to what extent they add are connected with subjective time pressure. Analyzing the original timeline raw data of 6,812 diary entries from the 2014 Korean Time Use Study (KTUS) we focused on working parents with children aged 18 or younger. Overall, we found that activity resumption is positively related to subjective time pressure, while activity switching negatively correlates with subjective time pressure. While we did not find a significant effect of time spent for childcare on feeling rushed, we found that time use for childcare is negatively correlated with activity resumption, but positively with activity switching intensity. Having young children compared to having teenagers in the family significantly goes with more feeling rushed, while having young children means less activity switching and less activity resumption. Finally, our results point to a significant parents’ gender differentiation of the covariation of subjective time pressure, diurnal activity change pattern and child care time use.
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2021 Seung-Eun Cha Citation: Seung-Eun Cha. 2021. "How Do They Do It? : Utilizing the Formal Elderly Care Services from the Perspective of Family Caregiver" Korea Journal of Population Studies 44(3): 23:-42 DOI: 10.31693/KJPS.2021.09.44.3.23 Language: Korean Publishing Institution: Korea Journal of Population Studies Publication Date: 2021. 09 Keywords: Formal Care, Informal Family Care, Long-term Care Service, Paid Care Service Hours The purpose of this study is to understand how and when families decide to utilize formal care services. This study used data of 499 family caregivers employed from 2018 Korean Elderly and Child Care Family Survey. Based on the logistic regression model results, the study found out that the elderly’s bad health status, the longer duration of caregiving, and the shorter hours of the preferred time of the main caregiver were significantly associated with the rate of using formal care service and the amount of hours used for paid service. Logistic regression analysis revealed that elderly recipients’ LTCI grade, duration of care, preferred amount of care time, other family memeber’s financial and intstrumental support was associated with formal care service utility. Tobit analysis revealed that caregiver’s sex, age, and the amount of actual care hours are significant factors associated with the formal care service utility. If the caregiver was female, relatively young, and spent longer care hours, care service hours were short. However, the hours of use of care services were long if there was financial help from other family members. Results may provide meaningful information in understanding the process and context of coordinating formal care with informal family care.
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Journal Articles
2020 Seung-eun Cha, Georgios PapastefanouCitation: Cha, S., & Papastefanou, G. (2020). Understanding the Time Pressure of Working Parents: How Parents’ Childcare Time Impacts the Diurnal Organization of Activities and the Sense of Feeling Rushed. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 51(1): 110-130. doi:10.3138/jcfs.51.1.006Language: EnglishJournal: Journal of Comparative Family StudiesPublication Date: 2020. 04. 15Keywords: time burden, time use structure, child care time, joint parenting, care workAbstract: Time pressure of parents has become an important policy agenda in many contemporary societies. This study aims to examine the association between parental childcare time and subjective time pressure (feeling rushed) by taking into account different types of diurnal activity patterns. From the background of time fragmentation as a structural source of time pressure we introduce two specific types of diurnal time use activities, namely activity resumption and activity switching. As activity resumption denotes that the same kind of activity is repeatedly shown over the day, activity switching indicates the diurnal substantive variety of activities. Our research question is aimed a examining if these activity patterns covariate with parental childcare time use and to what extent they add are connected with subjective time pressure. Analyzing the original timeline raw data of 6,812 diary entries from the 2014 Korean Time Use Study (KTUS) we focused on working parents with children aged 18 or younger. Overall, we found that activity resumption is positively related to subjective time pressure, while activity switching negatively correlates with subjective time pressure. While we did not find a significant effect of time spent for childcare on feeling rushed, we found that time use for childcare is negatively correlated with activity resumption, but positively with activity switching intensity. Having young children compared to having teenagers in the family significantly goes with more feeling rushed, while having young children means less activity switching and less activity resumption. Finally, our results point to a significant parents’ gender differentiation of the covariation of subjective time pressure, diurnal activity change pattern and child care time use.
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