However they preferred to have between 32 to 40 hours per week. The average hours available for women ranged from 16 to 21 hours per week for leisure, while they preferred to have between 24 to 35 hours per week. Life values . While study participants demonstrated that they valued leisure, they rarely did so above valuing their family, and infrequently did so above their work. When leisure was ranked first by study participants, it was done so by only one to six men per year over the ten years of data collection, and by only four to eleven women per year over the ten years.
Life experiences .
Over the years the individuals in the study not only documented their life experiences from a listing of 47 typical mid-life events, but also rated the extent to which they viewed these experiences as positive or negative, and the extent of control that they felt they had over each of these experiences. In each of the ten years they would indicate whether they felt they were building or changing their present life structure. The number of changes in life structure perceptions appeared to occur more often than earlier studies suggested. Ironically in 1989 and again in 1996 the responses were exactly the same. The following projects are in process at the present time.