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How Much Free Time Is Too Much Free Time, According to Science

We all need some down time—but too much (or too little) probably won't make us happier

By | Rachel Fairbank | lifehacker.com

In today’s busy world of work obligations and family responsibilities, free time can feel like an impossible luxury. You may dream of having long, lazy days to whatever you enjoy. But as enjoyable as all that time may seem, it turns out that there can be too much of a good thing: Too much free time can actually be just as detrimental as too little.

As Cassie Holmes, a social psychologist at UCLA who studies the effects of free time on happiness levels, recently wrote for CNBC, although “being ‘time poor’ makes us more depressed, stressed, and emotionally exhausted,” having too much free time “undermines one’s sense of purpose.”

There is an ideal amount of free time 

As Holmes and her colleagues discovered, there is an approximate ideal amount of free time that corresponds to an overall high level of life satisfaction. To study this correlation, they looked at a dataset of 35,375 Americans that included information about the average amount of free time they had. It tracked the time they had for leisure activities like reading, watching TV, spending time with friends, or just relaxing, and compared it to their overall satisfaction with life.

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