Multitasking Activities at Home Mom Make Over Emotion and Stress

News Health Articles - Multitasking Activities at Home Mom Make Over Emotion and Stress. While more multitasking activities at home than fathers, mothers actually feel less happy with it. Mothers feel more negative emotions and stress when conducting multitasking at home compared to when performing one task only.

The stereotype that mothers who work more busy dividing its energy between the children, husband, and household chores seem right. According to a recent study, mothers are not only more multitasking than fathers, but mothers also actually less happy to do so.



In the modern family, multitasking is a way of life. The researchers wanted to know how much time dihabisakan father and mother in doing two things at once or over and how he felt about it.

Study participants were derived from studies 500 Family Survey in 1999-2000, most of the families of study participants came from middle-class. Researchers asked parents to wear a watch that has been programmed rang eight times each day.

When you hear a beep, participants were asked to stop doing all the activities and record what is done when it's in the diary, with whom, and how her emotions at that time. This method is called 'experience sampling' which was developed by Hungarian psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

"What we learn not only how people spend, but how they feel about it at a very deep and very personal," said the researcher, Barbara Schneider, a sociologist at Michigan State University.

With a total sample of 16 878 written diaries of 368 mothers and 9482 fathers writings of 241 people, researchers found that multitasking is a very common thing.

Multitasking made the father more than a third of his time after waking, while mothers do multitasking activities for two-fifths of their daily activities.

Paid job put a lot of multitasking burden on the mother and father. The work that led to raising the level of multitasking multitasking by 36 percent in fathers and 23.4 percent in the mother.

At home, mothers are more likely to engage in domestic work or child care than fathers at the same time. Domestic work combined with the task of caring for children accounted for 10 percent of the time multitasking mothers and only 4.4 percent for fathers.

Although more multitasking activities at home than fathers, mothers feel less happy with it. Mothers feel more negative emotions and stress when conducting multitaskeing at home compared to when performing one task only, while the father did not show an increase in negative emotions.

"Basically, when the father was at home and do multitasking, they simply feel it is a good thing. But the mother does not feel that way," Schneider said as quoted by LiveScience, Monday (05/12/2011).

The study, published in the journal American Sociological Review found that in mothers who work as much as 52.7 percent multitasking activity at home is domestic work.

While on a working father, only amounted to 42.2 percent multitaskingnya activities related to domestic work. By 35.5 per cent of maternal multitasking activity at home is a child-care activities, compared with 27.9 percent of the fathers.

With multitasking, the mother may feel productive. But research shows that the brain is not his best when performing two or more tasks.

A study in 2010, published in the journal Science found that the brain is able to balance the two tasks at once, but adding one more task can be a disaster.

Perform activities of multitasking is actually a burden. According to research by professor Clifford Nass of Stanford University, the people who most multitasking is the person gets the worst results in its activities.