Spouse “Together Time”: Quality Time Within the Household

Glorieux, Ignace; Minnen, Joeri; Tienoven, Theun Pieter van

doi:10.1007/s11205-010-9648-x

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“…Both husbands’ and wives’ employment—especially long work hours—are negatively associated with marital interaction (e.g., Amato et al, 2007; Booth, Johnson, White, & Edwards, 1984; Roeters & Treas, 2011; White, 1983; but see Roeters & Treas, 2011). From the time use literature we know that individuals in dual-earner couples spend less time with their spouse than individuals in single-earner couples (Kingston & Nock, 1987; Presser, 2000; Voorpostel et al, 2009) as do individuals in couples in which one member works on the interview (i.e., diary) day (Barnet-Verzat et al, 2010; Dew, 2009; Glorieux, Minnen, & van Tienoven, 2011; Polivka, 2008; Wight et al, 2008) and in couples with large differences in paid work hours (Mansour & McKinnish, 2014). For example, Kingston and Nock (1987) drew on a small sample of couples from 1981 and showed that dual-earner couples spend 30 minutes less in total spousal time than single-earner couples.…”

Section: Work Parenting and Couples’ Shared Timementioning

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“…The literature consistently shows that parents spend less time with one another in leisure—and more generally—than nonparents (Barnet-Verzat et al, 2010; Dew, 2009; Glorieux et al, 2011; Hill, 1988; Mansour & McKinnish, 2014; Voorpostel et al, 2009). The transition to parenthood initially reduces leisure shared with a spouse (Claxton & Perry-Jenkins, 2008) as couples’ shared time shifts from leisure as a couple to leisure as a family (Huston & Vangelisti, 1995) and to more instrumental tasks following the birth of a child (Clements & Markman, 1996; Huston, McHale, & Crouter, 1986).…”

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Time for Each Other: Work and Family Constraints Among Couples

Flood

Genadek

2015

J of Marriage and Family

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Little is known about couples’ shared time and how actual time spent together is associated with well-being. In this study, the authors investigated how work and family demands are related to couples’ shared time (total and exclusive) and individual well-being (happiness, meaningfulness, and stress) when with one's spouse. They used individual-level data from the 2003–2010 American Time Use Survey (N = 46,883), including the 2010 Well-Being Module. The results indicated that individuals in full-time working dual-earner couples spend similar amounts of time together as individuals in traditional breadwinner–homemaker arrangements on weekdays after accounting for daily work demands. The findings also show that parents share significantly less total and exclusive spousal time together than nonparents, though there is considerable variation among parents by age of the youngest child. Of significance is that individuals experience greater happiness and meaning and less stress during time spent with a spouse opposed to time spent apart.

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Section: Work Parenting and Couples’ Shared Timementioning

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Section: Work Parenting and Couples’ Shared Timementioning

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Time for Each Other: Work and Family Constraints Among Couples

Flood

Genadek

2015

J of Marriage and Family

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“…Spending time together as families requires solving the problem of conflicting work schedules. Working night shifts or weekend shifts exacerbates schedule conflicts within families (Boulin & Lesnard, 2016;Glorieux, Minnen, & van Tienoven, 2010;Täht & Mills, 2016). Because couples have to synchronize their work schedules to spend time together, the more complicated such schedules are, the greater the challenge is for togetherness.…”

Section: Work Constraints and Time Spent With Family Membersmentioning

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“…The with whom information has been slightly more often used to study time with children (Wight, Raley, & Bianchi, 2008). Time-use studies have stressed the importance for families and couples of time together, without empirically testing its importance (Glorieux et al, 2010;Lesnard, 2008). One of the main reasons for this is the lack of data on partnership quality or family cohesion in time-use surveys.…”

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Couple Time and Partnership Quality: an Empirical Assessment using Diary Data

Vagni¹,

Widmer²

2018

Preprint

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It is often assumed that partnership quality is positively associated with the amount of time couples and families spend together. However, little about this link has been demonstrated empirically. This study investigates how time spent with the partners, children, parents, siblings, friends, and acquaintances is associated with partnership conflicts and partnership satisfaction. A time-use module was set up as part of a longitudinal survey about family relations and conflicts in Switzerland. The results show a robust association between partnership quality, time shared with the partner, and time shared with the partner and children. Results show that the more time couples spend together, the more likely they are to experience high partnership quality and to report being satisfied with their relationships. Partners who are satisfied with their relationships are more prone to talk to each other, to share leisure time, and to go to bed together. In contrast, time spent with friends and kin is not associated with partnership quality.

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“…Similarly, decreased levels of work-family conflict [1,37] and domestic labour [31], increased quality time with family and friends [32,53], and strong sense of belonging to community tend to improve social contact and life satisfaction [50].…”

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Determinants of life satisfaction in Canada: A causal modeling approach

Branch-Allen

Jayachandran

2016

SHS Web of Conferences

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Abstract. Most research studies on Life Satisfaction/Subjective Wellbeing (SWB) have focused on one main determinant and a variety of social demographic variables to delineate the determinants of life satisfaction. However, very few research studies examine life satisfaction from a holistic approach. The aim of this study was to utilize a holistic approach to construct a causal model and identify major determinants of life satisfaction. This study utilized data from the General Social Survey, with a sample size of 19,597. Several multiple regression models were run sequentially to estimate standardized path coefficients for the causal model. Overall, above average satisfaction with life was reported by Canadian respondents. Respondents who were female, younger, married, from high socioeconomic status background, born in Canada, very religious, and demonstrated high level of neighborhood interaction had greater satisfaction with life. Similarly, respondents had greater life satisfaction if they had better health, social contact, leisure activities, more time with family and friends, more enjoyment with volunteer activities, and a greater sense of belonging to the community. Our results suggest that a holistic approach is necessary for understanding the causal process of life satisfaction. A significant number of causal connections contradict some of the findings in literature today. We have provided some possible explanations for these anomalies and policy implications.

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Spouse “Together Time”: Quality Time Within the Household

Abstract: Time-use, Quality of life, Working time, Family life, Time together,

Cited by 27 publications

References 11 publications

Time for Each Other: Work and Family Constraints Among Couples

Time for Each Other: Work and Family Constraints Among Couples

Couple Time and Partnership Quality: an Empirical Assessment using Diary Data

Determinants of life satisfaction in Canada: A causal modeling approach

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