Leisure as self-care in the times of the pandemic: Insights from a time-use diary study in India

Tripathi, Ashwin; Samanta, Tannistha

doi:10.1080/02614367.2022.2121415

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“…As such, this story about the politically influential middle to upper middle-class Indians with adequate residual spending power and cultural capital to engage in age-ambiguous consumer citizenry, is now well documented by academic commentators in India (Fernandes and Heller, 2006 ; Srivastava, 2007 ; Baviskar and Ray, 2020 ). In our previous work, we operationalize third age in the context through active participation in social engagement activities, as authors have noted that time-use is a valuable descriptor of people's lifestyle, as studying how people spend their time is critical for understanding the determinants and consequences of individuals' overall wellbeing and life satisfaction (Tripathi and Samanta, 2023a , b ). On similar lines, Padhy et al ( 2015 ) explores the positive relationship between leisure activities, wellbeing and life-satisfaction among young adults through leisure motivation.…”

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Leisure as social engagement: does it moderate the association between subjective wellbeing and depression in later life?

Tripathi,

Samanta

2023

Front. Sociol.

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ObjectivesTo investigate the role of leisure (as social engagement) in moderating the association between subjective wellbeing and depressive symptoms among older Indians.MethodsThe sample included data from 39,538 older adults (aged 55–80) from the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI, Wave-1), 2017–2018. Individual level questionnaire was used to examine the relationship among social engagement, subjective wellbeing, and depressive symptoms. Moderating effects of leisure activities were estimated through interaction analysis and linear multivariable modeling.ResultsLow participation in social engagement activities (or leisure) was associated with greater likelihood of depressive symptoms. Leisure activities positively and significantly moderated the subjective wellbeing among older adults with depressive symptoms. Results suggest a significant wealth gradient where affluent older Indians having a clear advantage in heightened levels of social engagement and subsequently lower likelihood of depressive symptoms. Additionally, being in an urban area, co-residence in a “joint” household and belonging to the dominant social groups in terms of caste and religious categories are associated with gains in wellbeing.DiscussionThe direct and indirect effects of social engagement suggest that depressive symptoms can be mitigated while enhancing overall wellbeing of older adults. This holds promise for social policy in redirecting efforts to develop age-friendly initiatives and social infrastructure that enhance the link between engagement and wellbeing.

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Leisure as social engagement: does it moderate the association between subjective wellbeing and depression in later life?

Tripathi,

Samanta

2023

Front. Sociol.

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“…In Section 4, Ketaki Chowkhani (Chapter 8) explores an interesting trope of aging alone and self-care. Arguing against the idea there is only one cultural ideology of successful aging in the Global South, the author re-instates the multiple possibilities of aging successfully, prospects that are gradually being covered through the growing Third Age literature in India (Samanta 2021;Tripathi and Samanta 2022). In Chapter 9, Ji Wu and Xue Qiu discuss the experience of carework among yet another marginalised section of the Chinese population, namely older adults that lost their only child and end up caring for their grandchild(ren).…”

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Book Review: Eldercare Issues in China and India

Tripathi

2023

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“I Don’t Want to Have the Time When I Do Nothing”: Aging and Reconfigured Leisure Practices During the Pandemic

Tripathi

Samanta

2023

Ageing Int

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In this paper, we contend that urban middle-class older Indians engaged in “serious leisure” as a way to reimagine and reconfigure the structure of everyday life during the pandemic-led epochal downtime. In particular, we heuristically show that leisure activity patterns and constraint negotiation strategies among older Indians followed conceptual semblances with the dominant leisure-based typology of Serious Leisure Perspective . By thematically analysing household surveys (n = 71), time-use diaries and in-depth interviews (n = 15) of middle to upper middle-class individuals (55–80 years), we show how both men and women distinguished between serious leisure that is marked by motivation, agency and perseverance with that of unstructured, routinized free-time (or causal leisure). Time-use diaries suggested that despite the changed realities of heightened domestic time available to both genders due to the pandemic, women recorded higher proportion of their daily hours in household management and caregiving. Although women were governed by moral-cultural self-descriptions in their engagement with leisure, it was often associated with an enhanced sense of self-actualisation, self-management and identity. Overall, we show how the social codes of age and gender were inextricably linked with the practice of leisure during the pandemic.

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Leisure as self-care in the times of the pandemic: Insights from a time-use diary study in India

Cited by 4 publications

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Leisure as social engagement: does it moderate the association between subjective wellbeing and depression in later life?

Leisure as social engagement: does it moderate the association between subjective wellbeing and depression in later life?

Book Review: Eldercare Issues in China and India

“I Don’t Want to Have the Time When I Do Nothing”: Aging and Reconfigured Leisure Practices During the Pandemic

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