Making it Facebook official: The warranting value of online relationship status disclosures on relational characteristics

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Highlights：

• We explore the relationship between online self-presentation and offline relational characteristics.

• Survey of N = 170 undergraduates in romantic relationships, including Facebook use and relational attributes.

• Between-group analysis and structural equation modeling used to predict relational characteristics.

• Being ‘Facebook official’ predicted by relational characteristics.

• Implications for warranting theory, relational investment, and online self-presentation of romantic relationships.

摘要

•We explore the relationship between online self-presentation and offline relational characteristics.•Survey of N = 170 undergraduates in romantic relationships, including Facebook use and relational attributes.•Between-group analysis and structural equation modeling used to predict relational characteristics.•Being ‘Facebook official’ predicted by relational characteristics.•Implications for warranting theory, relational investment, and online self-presentation of romantic relationships.

论文关键词：Facebook,Investment model,Relationship maintenance,Online self-disclosure,Warranting theory

论文评审过程：Received 26 August 2015, Revised 7 November 2015, Accepted 11 November 2015, Available online 26 November 2015, Version of Record 26 November 2015.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.11.016