Practice makes perfect: The longitudinal effect of adolescents’ instant messaging on their ability to initiate offline friendships

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Highlights：

• We focus on the influence of online communication on offline social competence.

• We investigate whether instant messaging influences offline friendship initiation.

• Instant messaging increased adolescents’ ability to initiate friendships over time.

• This effect occurred through the diversity of their online communication partners.

• Such practice of social skills with diverse people may increase social competence.

摘要

•We focus on the influence of online communication on offline social competence.•We investigate whether instant messaging influences offline friendship initiation.•Instant messaging increased adolescents’ ability to initiate friendships over time.•This effect occurred through the diversity of their online communication partners.•Such practice of social skills with diverse people may increase social competence.

论文关键词：Online communication,Social competence,Friendship initiation,Diversity of communication partners,Self-disclosure

论文评审过程：Available online 7 June 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2013.04.033