When Less is More: On Time Work in Long-Distance Relationships

Jurkane-Hobein, Iveta

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“…This points to the crucial role of argumentative use or manipulation of time in advancing and defending knowledge claims. In its original formulation, the concept of time work, understood as “one’s effort to promote or suppress a particular temporal experience” ( Flaherty, 2003 , p. 19), sheds light on how people attempt to control or customize various dimensions of time in diverse social contexts ( Flaherty, 2011 ; Dalsgård et al, 2014 ; Flaherty et al, 2020 ), from managing health care ( McCoy, 2009 ) to homeschooling ( Lois, 2010 ) or to maintaining long distance relationships ( Jurkane-Hobein, 2015 ). The concept of argumentative time work ( Ciocănel et al, 2020 ; Rughiniş et al, 2020 ) reveals legitimation tactics that make use of shared temporal expectations and valorizations to create plausible representations of reality.…”

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The Social Bifurcation of Reality: Symmetrical Construction of Knowledge in Science-Trusting and Science-Distrusting Discourses

Rughiniș

Flaherty

2022

Front. Sociol.

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This article proposes a conceptual framework to study the social bifurcation of reality in polarized science-trusting and science-distrusting lay worldviews, by analyzing and integrating five concepts: science work, number work, emotion work, time work, and boundary work. Despite the epistemological asymmetry between accounts relying on mainstream science and science-distrusting or denialist ones, there are symmetrical social processes contributing to the construction of lay discourses. Through conceptual analysis, we synthesize an alternative to the deficit model of contrarian discourses, replacing the model of social actors as “defective scientists” with a focus on their culturally competent agency. The proposed framework is useful for observing the parallel construction of polarized realities in interaction and their ongoing articulation through hinge objects, such as vaccines, seatbelts, guns, or sanitary masks in the Covid-19 context. We illustrate the framework through a comparative approach, presenting arguments and memes from contemporary online media in two controversies: namely, vaccine-trusting versus vaccine-distrusting views and Covid-convinced versus Covid-suspicious discourses.

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The Social Bifurcation of Reality: Symmetrical Construction of Knowledge in Science-Trusting and Science-Distrusting Discourses

Rughiniș

Flaherty

2022

Front. Sociol.

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“…Our results suggest that both partners' satisfaction with their shared leisure pursuits should be a greater focus than purely the amount of time they spend together, as more is not always better. Supporting this claim, recent studies investigating the maintenance and satisfaction in long‐distance relationships suggest that time, in romantic contexts, is often subjective, further negating the impact of actual time quantity on relationship functioning (Jurkane‐Hobein, ; Sahlstein, ). Dissatisfaction with the time spent with the partner, however, will have negative implications for relationship functioning, despite the amount of time being shared.…”

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Leisure in romantic relationships: An avenue for differentiation of self

Stapley

Murdock

2020

Personal Relationships

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Bowen Family Systems Theory predicts that the ability to balance emotional intimacy with one’s partner with one's own sense of autonomy, called differentiation of self, results in stronger relationships. We tested whether this balance manifests in how individuals manage their time spent with and without their partner. Analyses utilized differentiation of self, leisure time balance with and without one's partner, and couple leisure satisfaction to predict dyadic adjustment. Although leisure time balance did not mediate the relationship between differentiation of self and relationship functioning, couple leisure satisfaction was found to partially mediate this relationship. The moderating effect of differentiation was also examined, which demonstrated that differentiation of self buffered the relationship between low couple leisure time satisfaction and relationship adjustment.

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“…Gerstel and Gross (1984) suggest that the time period of at least 1 month is appropriate for considering a relationship to be long-distance, although what can also matter is if the partners sense that the subjective time without seeing each other is too long (Jurkane-Hobein, 2015; Stafford, 2005). With both of these interpretations of the amount of time that needs to pass in order for a relationship to be considered long-distance in mind, respondents were asked, “Roughly how long was this long-distance period in the relationship?” The choices that were made available to respondents in a pull-down menu were collapsed during data analysis into broad temporal categories of less than 6 months, between 6 months and a year, and at least a year.…”

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Constructing Shared “Space”: Meaningfulness in Long-Distance Romantic Relationship Communication Formats

Janning

Gao

Snyder

2017

Journal of Family Issues

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Via analysis of online survey data of 262 people aged 18 to 70 in the United States who have been involved in a long-distance romantic relationship (LDR) since 2005, we investigate how paper, audio, visual, and digital communication formats may be used and viewed as differentially meaningful. While in most intimate relationships, digital formats such as e-mail, messaging, and texts are frequently used, LDR couples are more likely to use and find most meaningful video chat and audio platforms compared with paper or digital formats. The reason for each platform’s meaningfulness varies according to survey respondents’ subjective understandings. Audio and visual formats are seen as meaningful because they offer intimacy, paper formats offer thoughtfulness, and digital formats offer ease as well as thoughtfulness. This research contributes to understanding the subjectively constructed meaning of ever-changing communication platforms, as well as definitions of shared sociomental spaces, for couples who are geographically separated.

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When Less is More: On Time Work in Long-Distance Relationships

Cited by 7 publications

References 20 publications

The Social Bifurcation of Reality: Symmetrical Construction of Knowledge in Science-Trusting and Science-Distrusting Discourses

The Social Bifurcation of Reality: Symmetrical Construction of Knowledge in Science-Trusting and Science-Distrusting Discourses

Leisure in romantic relationships: An avenue for differentiation of self

Constructing Shared “Space”: Meaningfulness in Long-Distance Romantic Relationship Communication Formats

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