2023届高三英语一轮复习课外阅读讲义：太多的空闲时间或对健康有害

高三英语阅读素材积累：人与社会：太多的空闲时间或对健康有害 一、语篇泛读 Research shows there is a ‘sweet spot’ and subjective well-being drops off after about five hours. Scientists have found too much leisure time might not be good for people’s sense of well-being. Researchers have found that while levels of subjective well-being initially rise as free time increases, the trend does not necessarily hold for very high levels of leisure. “The sweet spot is a moderate amount of free time,” said Dr Marissa Sharif, a co-author of the study from the University of Pennsylvania. “We found that having too much time was associated with lower subjective well-being due to a lacking sense of productivity and purpose.” Writing in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Sharif and colleagues reported how they analysed results from two large-scale surveys, involving a combined total of more than 35,000 participants. One was the American Time Use Survey, which was carried out between 2012 and 2013 and asked participants what they had done in the past 24 hours.  After crowd-sourcing opinions on which activities would be equated with leisure time and then calculating this time for participants, the team found that while subjective well-being rose with the amount of free time up to about two hours, it began to drop once it exceeded five hours.  Meanwhile data from the National Study of the Changing Workforce, carried out between 1992 and 2008, revealed that beyond a certain point, having more free time was no longer linked to greater subjective well-being, but it did not dip — possibly because few of the participants reported having more than five hours of free time a day. The team said the American Time Use Survey suggested the way people spent their leisure time mattered. “Although an abundance of discretionary time spent on solo and nonproductive activities did produce a negative effect on subjective well-being, discretionary time spent on activities that were social or productive did not,” they wrote. T