So why have you added me? Adolescent girls’ technology-mediated attachments and relationships

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Highlights:

• Adolescent girls can develop attachment with others through, and with, technology.

• Adolescent girls use technology to meet others and mediate relationships.

• Facets of relationships can be understood as functions of secure relationships.

• Functions include proximity-seeking, trust, exploration and return to secure base.

• Technology use can amplify girls’ secure relationships with peers and parents.

摘要

•Adolescent girls can develop attachment with others through, and with, technology.•Adolescent girls use technology to meet others and mediate relationships.•Facets of relationships can be understood as functions of secure relationships.•Functions include proximity-seeking, trust, exploration and return to secure base.•Technology use can amplify girls’ secure relationships with peers and parents.

论文关键词:Attachment theory,Adolescence,Technology,Sociology

论文评审过程:Received 21 August 2015, Revised 23 March 2016, Accepted 5 May 2016, Available online 14 May 2016, Version of Record 14 May 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.05.011