Qualitative analysis demonstrates how gifting time enhances personal meaning and well-being, highlighting its transformative role across consumer practices.
Key Points
To examine how time operates as a gift in its own right and how it generates meaning to enhance the well-being of both the giver and recipient.
Conceptual and qualitative analysis of time gifting within mundane consumer practices in Western societies.
Theoretical modeling of time across three dimensions of meaning (purpose, mattering, and comprehension) and temporal orientations (unidirectional, bidirectional, and circular).
Gifting time generates distinct dimensions of meaning, delivering purpose to the giver while fostering mattering and comprehension for the recipient.
Time gifting operates autotelically through everyday roles as self-time, social time, and committed time to sustain personal and interpersonal well-being.