Adult Romantic Attachment, Electronic Messaging, and Relationship Quality

Autor:	Prit Y. Patel, Elizabeth A. Mahar, Gregory D. Webster
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Adult Social Psychology Communication Personal Satisfaction General Medicine Anxiety Object Attachment Computer Science Applications Human-Computer Interaction Sexual Partners Humans Interpersonal Relations Electronics Applied Psychology
Zdroj:	Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 25:200-206
ISSN:	2152-2723 2152-2715
DOI:	10.1089/cyber.2021.0060
Popis:	The present study examined associations among adult romantic attachment, relationship quality, and electronic messaging frequency/preferences in 302 romantically partnered undergraduates. Anxious people desired more frequent messages than they received, whereas avoidant people desired less frequent messages than they received. Anxious people received fewer messages from their partners, whereas avoidant people sent fewer messages to their partners. Additionally, anxious people took less time to respond to their partner than their partners took to respond to them, whereas avoidant people took more time to respond to their partner than their partners did to respond to them. Finally, the relation between message frequency satisfaction and relationship quality was stronger for more anxious people. These results suggest that individual differences in attachment dimensions related to differences in romantic messaging behavior in theoretically consistent ways.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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