Relational dialectics and social networking sites: The role of Facebook in romantic relationship escalation, maintenance, conflict, and dissolution

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Highlights：

• Romantic relationships face many challenges on social networking sites.

• Facebook’s affordances (connectivity and visibility) can create turmoil.

• Facebook promotes integration in couples, but makes independence difficult.

• Couples experience conflict over appropriate expression and privacy management.

• Social networking sites provide a unique context for relational dialectics.

摘要

•Romantic relationships face many challenges on social networking sites.•Facebook’s affordances (connectivity and visibility) can create turmoil.•Facebook promotes integration in couples, but makes independence difficult.•Couples experience conflict over appropriate expression and privacy management.•Social networking sites provide a unique context for relational dialectics.

论文关键词：Relational dialectics theory,Social networking sites,Romantic relationships,Facebook,Uncertainty reduction,Relationship dissolution

论文评审过程：Available online 17 March 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.02.031