Browsing by Author "Välimäki, Lauri"

This study examines the reasons behind passed or undone domestic work in young alone living adults’ everyday lives and describes the impact of undone domestic work in their everyday experience. Undone domestic work is often seen as laziness or ineffectual by people. According to previous studies, some housing types like multi-member families with little children cannot skip domestic work or be flexible on their daily routines to avoid difficulties in their everyday life. Also, when living in cohabitation in general, you must actively contribute in domestic work to forward collective well-being. However, that does not apply for alone living adults since they are only accountable for themselves. They can do the domestic work based on their own schedule, resources and with their own standards of tidiness. The study was implemented with qualitative research method. Five young alone living adults took part in this study, in the 20-32 age range. Three males and two females were chosen with discretionary take. All of them were living in rental one-room flats. The material was gathered by individual theme interviews, that were done by online phone calls. The themes were a single day, periodical domestic work, home and housing, subliminal domestic work and experience on undone domestic work. The analysis method was inductive content analysis. According to the results, it seems that domestic work is not highly prioritized task in everyday life, and undone domestic work results in mostly negative experience. There was found nine different subcategories to explain the reasons behind passed or undone domestic work. Essential subcategories were hurry, which included management of responsibilities and hectic everyday life, sufficient tidiness, which mean that a little messy apartment was not seen as a problem, and laziness, when one could not bother or bear to do domestic work. They formed two upper categories which were rationalization of domestic work and domestic work affiliated despondency. Also, there was found five different subcategories to describe the impact of undone domestic work in young alone living adults’ everyday life. Essential subcategories were slight queasiness, where undone domestic work was slightly distressing, being strained, where undone domestic work was causing burden, and relief, where passing domestic work saved resources. They also formed two upper categories which were negative mood and decent mood.