Abstract
The purpose of this paper was to grasp the actual conditions of the family-communication objectively from the view-point of activities and time in daily-life and to draw factors that influenced them. Moreover the family-communication housewives regarded was demonstrated from the relation between their consciousness and actual conditions.
The results were as follows :
1) Housewives thought they had about 2 hr-family-communication on an average. It corresponded to hours that all or all except one member of the family gathered in LDK-space, and contained hours that they participated doing their household matters (“Nagaraparticipation”), which was recognised as the family-communication hours but they weren't so satisfied with.
2) In the case of the multiple-house the difference between the family-gathering hours and the family-communication hours were larger than that of the detached-house. So it was supposed that LDK-space in the multiple-house was used more variously.
3) The family-communication hours in LDK- space were influenced by the number of rooms and life-stage. It became short when there were many rooms and oppositely became long when there were few. When children were little or grown-up, it was long, and when they had children going to junior high school or high school, it became shortest.
4) The closer L, D and K were united, the longer the family-communication hours got. Completely separated D, K from L (Separate-type), housewives' “Nagara- participation” were interrupted. It was desirable that the living style which interrupted others' eyes looking into K from L to the extent that the housewives' participation to the family-communication wasn't interrupted.
