Close Friendship Maintenance on Facebook

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  • Close Friendship Maintenance on Facebook Book Detail

  • Author : Tengku Siti Aisha
  • Release Date : 2014
  • Publisher :
  • Genre : Facebook (Electronic resource)
  • Pages : 190
  • ISBN 13 :
  • File Size : 85,85 MB

Close Friendship Maintenance on Facebook by Tengku Siti Aisha PDF Summary

Book Description: Close friendship is a crucial and unique interpersonal tie that can survive a lifetime. Maintaining such friendships at a satisfactory level, even with the aid of social networking websites (SNS) such as Facebook, can be a challenging process. Research on face-to-face communication has shown that relationship satisfaction depends both upon relationship maintenance strategies (e.g., positivity, openness, supportiveness) and the management of dialectical contradictions (e.g., openness-closedness and autonomy-connection). This dissertation asked how relationship maintenance strategies used on Facebook and perceived dialectical tensions influence relationship satisfaction in close friendships. A key objective was to determine whether the role of Facebook in friendship maintenance differs across two cultures: the U.S. and Malaysia. Effects of the gender makeup of the friendship dyads, age, intensity of Facebook use, and cultural value orientation were also investigated. All participants completed an online survey in which they were asked to think of a close friend with whom they communicated both face-to-face and on Facebook. Findings showed that Malaysian respondents used certain Facebook maintenance behaviors (i.e., supportiveness, openness, social information seeking, and avoidance) significantly more often than did Americans. Cross-sex dyads used more positivity on Facebook than male-male dyads and more openness than female-female dyads. Intensity of Facebook use was positively correlated with frequency of use of all seven Facebook maintenance behaviors. Age of the respondent did not influence the frequency of Facebook maintenance behaviors, when intensity of Facebook use was controlled for. Perceived use of positivity and supportiveness by the friend on Facebook were positively related to relationship satisfaction. In contrast, more frequent use of avoidance and social information seeking by the friend on Facebook negatively impacted relationship satisfaction (as did excessive autonomy and excessive connection). Contrary to predictions, the effects of three Facebook relationship maintenance strategies (openness, interaction planning, avoidance) on relationship satisfaction did not depend upon dialectical tensions. The implications of the findings for the role of Facebook in friendship maintenance and theories of relational dialectics are considered.

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