They identified the respondent’s main activity at the time of the beep, its precise timing (day and time of the beep), the location of the respondent, the company he/she was with, and a number of emotional and experiential states, such as feelings of time pressure, stress, fatigue, boredom, loneliness, desire to engage in something else, as well as interest in and importance attributed to the acti. [...] Time diary data offer, according to the authors, “a unique view of the intersection between the imperatives of the human condition and the range of individual behavioural choice” and provide a relatively bias-free and universal measurement of human behaviour (p. [...] Cross-country comparisons of time spent by adolescents playing computer and video games and surfing Internet are complicated by the fact that the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s were marked by an explosion of Internet and computer use, and the higher figures of computer use in some counties (for example, Germany and the U. [...] The 1992 and 1998 levels of Canadian adolescents’ participa- tion in physically active leisure are almost identical, and OATUS data suggest that adolescents’ participation in sports and outdoors may have declined lately.13 The amount of reading reported in the late 1990s and at the beginning of the new millennium has also fallen compared to the levels reported in the 1980s. [...] According to Converse (1972), the index of time use dissimilarity between Belgium and France was 3.0, or the lowest between any two of the 12 participant countries, while the indices of dissimilarity between Belgium and France, and the United States were 4.8 and 5.0 respectively.
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