This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Clarke, D. D. Articles by Salinas, M. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

Conjoint Time-Budgeting: Investigating Behavioural Accommodation in Marriage

Oxford University, England

Christine M.B. Allen

Oxford University, England

Maria Salinas

Oxford University, England

Thirty married couples reported their activity patterns over a typical month by allocating twelve activity categories to a time-based strip chart. This was done independently by husbands and wives. The data were then coded into `conjoint matrices' showing the amount of time spent in each combination of husband's and wife's activities. The conjoint patterns were factor and cluster analysed to show how each person's activities grouped together when the concurrent activity of their partner was taken as the descriptive measure, and to show separately for husbands and wives, on weekdays and weekends, what was the most likely concurrent activity of the partner, for each activity type. This method is put forward as a way of studying the accommodation of daily schedules that partners have to make as part of the routine of their married life.

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Vol. 3, No. 1, 53-69 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/0265407586031005


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?