2011
DOI: 10.1177/1461444811415047
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Calling and texting (too much): Mobile maintenance expectations, (over)dependence, entrapment, and friendship satisfaction

Abstract: This article uses dialectical theory to examine how mobile phone use in close friendships affects relational expectations, the experiences of dependence, overdependence, and entrapment, and how those experiences affect relational satisfaction. Results suggest that increased mobile phone use for the purpose of relational maintenance has contradictory consequences for close friendships. Using mobile phones in close relationships increased expectations of relationship maintenance through mobile phones. Increased … Show more

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“…It exposes an intense relational need fraught with insecurities. A passionate reliance on community can draw people close, but it may hinder efforts to obtain valuable insight, direction, and encouragement (Hall and Baym 2011).…”
Section: Implications For Intolerance and Dependencementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…It exposes an intense relational need fraught with insecurities. A passionate reliance on community can draw people close, but it may hinder efforts to obtain valuable insight, direction, and encouragement (Hall and Baym 2011).…”
Section: Implications For Intolerance and Dependencementioning
confidence: 99%
“…these relationships to be bidirectional and mutually transparent (Sbanotto 2012). When equality and candor are obviously active, the friendship can become a safe and trustworthy engagement prompting commitment between the participants (Hall and Baym 2011). In conversations with Millennial members or attenders, church leadership (i.e., elders, deacons, and volunteer mentors) need to empathize and validate.…”
Section: Applications For Intolerance and Dependencementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…They are also interwoven with other online activities (news gathering, shopping, gaming, and so forth), which together contribute to the social construction of media as indispensable things (Jansson, 2014b). There are several empirical studies showing that a life without mobile media devices and various social media applications would be more or less unthinkable to many social groups today and that people even develop counter-routines in order to cope with their experiences of being increasingly "addicted" to keeping an eye on various information flows and updates, responses to things they have posted online and the fluctuations of social media scores (e.g., Bengtsson, 2015;Hall & Baym, 2012;Paasonen, 2014).…”
Section: Interveillance and The Dialectics Of Mediatizationmentioning
confidence: 99%