Spouse “Together Time”: Quality Time Within the Household
Spouse “Together Time”: Quality Time Within the Household
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DOI：
10.1007/s11205-010-9648-x
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发表时间：
2011-04
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
I. Glorieux;Joeri Minnen;Theun Pieter van Tienoven
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作者：
I. Glorieux;Joeri Minnen;Theun Pieter van Tienoven
在过去的十年中，越来越多的时间使用数据是在家庭层面而不是个人层面收集的。所有家庭成员的时间使用信息为研究领域提供了更多见解，而迄今为止，这些研究领域主要使用在个人层面收集的数据。这些研究领域之一是生活质量的研究，基于家庭中伴侣一起度过的（质量）时间，而这反过来又通常与研究一起度过的时间与关系满意度之间的关联有关。配偶面对面互动的次数被认为对婚姻质量至关重要，并且被认为在双职工夫妇中受到侵犯，尤其是那些女性长时间工作的夫妇。在这篇文章中，我们分析了 1999 年和 2005 年比利时时间使用调查中夫妻的时间使用情况。我们确定了夫妻一起做哪些活动、分开做哪些活动，以及哪些家庭特征预测了夫妻在一起的时间。一般来说，工作时间似乎是影响在一起时间的最决定性因素。另一方面，女性劳动力市场参与度的提高似乎对夫妻在一起度过的时间并没有构成太大的威胁。
During the last decade more and more time-use data were gathered on a household level in stead of on an individual level. The time-use information of all members of the household provides much more insight in research fields that until now largely used data gathered at the individual level. One of these research fields is the study of quality of life, based on the (quality) time partners within a household spend together which in turn is often linked to studying the associations between the amount of time spent together and relationship satisfaction. The amount of face-to-face spousal interaction is considered to be critically important for marital quality and is assumed to be violated within dual-earner couples, especially those with women working long hours. In this contribution we analyze the time-use of couples in the Belgian Time Use Surveys of 1999 and 2005. We identify which activities couples do together and which they do apart, and what household characteristics predict couples’ together time. Working times in general seem the most decisive factor influencing the amount of together time. The increased labor market participation of women, on the other hand, seems not to be so much a threat for the time a couple spends together.