Quality time

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Under Quality time ( Engl. For "quality time") are understood in English, especially in the United States of America , the time in which one of his family, his partner or his friends devoted special attention.

The colloquial expression comes from the USA, where it gained popularity in the 1970s with the idea of ​​being able to combine family and work . The expression was first proven in January 1973 in an article in the Maryland newspaper The Capital . "Quality time" is seen as time that is used exclusively to strengthen human relationships, with social activities such as playing together, going for walks, talking or preparing a meal together. The term is seldom related to the time that a person spends with himself or herself and possibly his hobby in order to recover from work or the stresses of his family life, which is excluded in many definitions because of the lack of “conscious interaction” .

The American sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild defined the term in 2006 as follows:

“The concept of quality time is based on the assumption that the time we devote to relationships can somehow be separated from ordinary time. Of course, relationships continue during quantity time, but then we are only passive with our emotional ties and do not pursue them actively, purposefully and not wholeheartedly. "

In his book Five Languages ​​of Love, the American couple and relationship counselor Gary Chapman understands “Quality time” in the sense of consciously lived togetherness as one of five different relationship languages ​​that are lived in partnerships.

The term is now used, partly translated, in German-speaking countries. The Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth limited quality time in a memorandum in May 2009 as follows: “We consider reliable and self-determined time options that families consciously use for joint activities as quality time for families. These can be shared trips or afternoons with games as well as activities such as cooking and eating together, as long as they are consciously perceived as family time. Purely household chores or hobbies in which other family members are also present, however, do not count. For us, time prosperity is measured in conscious interaction, care and attention with the result of well-being. ”Enabling family-related quality time through more time sovereignty is the task of politics, business and society, and especially a task of family policy .

See also

literature

  • S. Adams Sullivan: Quality Time Almanac. Main Street Books, 1986, ISBN 0-385-18293-7 . (engl.)
  • Gary D. Chapman: The Five Languages ​​of Love: How to Communicate in Marriage. Francke, Marburg an der Lahn 1994, ISBN 3-86122-126-8 .
  • Bend C. Tümper: Quality Time - living together consciously and using time valuable. 9th edition. books4success, Kulmbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-86470-215-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cathryn L. Booth, K. Alison Clarke-Stewart, Deborah Lowe Vandell, Kathleen McCartney, Margaret Tresch Owen: Child-Care Usage and Mother-Infant 'Quality Time'. In: Journal of Marriage and Family. Volume 64, Issue 1, February 2002, pp. 16-26.
    Pia Haudrum Christensen: Why More 'Quality Time' Is Not on the Top of Children's Lists. The 'Qualities of Time' for Children. In: Children & Society. Volume 16, Issue 2, April 2002, pp. 77-88.
    Joseph Price: Parent-Child Quality Time. Does Birth Order Matter? In: The Journal of Human Resources. Volume 43, Issue 1, 2008, pp. 240-265.
  2. ^ The Phrase Finder: Quality Time. In: phrases.org.uk .
  3. ↑ a b What is Quality Time? In: wisegeek.com .
  4. ^ A b Norbert F. Schneider : Parenthood in the modern age - sociological considerations and their political implications. In: Jürgen Hardt et al. (Hrsg.): Longing for a family in postmodernism: Parents and children in therapy today. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-40328-0 , p. 27 f., Especially note 1 ( preview on Google books).
  5. ↑ Quoted by Jennifer Altmann: The family as a company: How a new female model degrades the mother to a family manager: Examination of a guide to the problem of reconciliation. Diplomica, Hamburg 2010, p. 85 ( online on Google books ).
  6. ↑ a b Memorandum Family Living. Impulses for a family-conscious time policy . Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women and Youth, p. 6 ( bmfsfj.de [PDF; 3.3 MB ; accessed on December 5, 2009]).