Too close for comfort: Attachment insecurity and electronic intrusion in college students’ dating relationships

Reed, Lauren A.; Tolman, Richard M.; Safyer, Paige

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2015.03.050

Cited by 73 publications

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“…Greater attachment anxiety has been associated with more frequent perpetration of digital dating abuse, even after controlling for demographic characteristics, such as hours spent using social networking sites and reports of victimisation (Reed et al 2016b). To our knowledge, Reed et al (2015Reed et al ( , 2016b are the only researchers to explore the relationship between attachment anxiety and digital dating abuse. We attempted to replicate the findings of Reed et al (2015).…”

Section: Attachment Theory and Digital Dating Abusementioning

confidence: 99%

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Mate Value Discrepancy and Attachment Anxiety Predict the Perpetration of Digital Dating Abuse

Bhogal

Howman

2018

Evolutionary Psychological Science

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Research suggests that individual differences in attachment style predict the perpetration of digital dating abuse. In addition to attachment style, no research, to our knowledge, has explored the role of mate value in the perpetration of digital dating abuse. In this paper, we argue that digital dating abuse is a contemporary cost-inflicting mate retention behaviour, where larger mate value discrepancies between partners are associated with higher levels of digital dating abuse (n = 167). As expected, high mate value discrepancy and attachment anxiety were associated with high levels of digital dating abuse. We provide novel support for the relationship between mate value discrepancy and digital dating abuse. Our findings provide support for additional, unexplored factors which lead to the perpetration of digital dating abuse.

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Section: Attachment Theory and Digital Dating Abusementioning

confidence: 99%

“…To our knowledge, Reed et al (2015Reed et al ( , 2016b are the only researchers to explore the relationship between attachment anxiety and digital dating abuse. We attempted to replicate the findings of Reed et al (2015).…”

Section: Attachment Theory and Digital Dating Abusementioning

confidence: 99%

Mate Value Discrepancy and Attachment Anxiety Predict the Perpetration of Digital Dating Abuse

Bhogal

Howman

2018

Evolutionary Psychological Science

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“…Online intrusion has been associated with increased jealousy (Muise, Christofides, & Desmarais, 2009, 2014, decreased trust (Norton & Baptist, 2014;Tokunaga, 2011), and perceived uncertainty in relationships (Stewart, Dainton, & Goodboy, 2014). It may be that technological intrusion is harmful in the beginning phases of relationships, where it is used as a form of surveillance (Gibbs, Ellison, & Lai, 2011;Muise et al, 2009;Reed et al, 2015), whereas in later stages of relationship development, it is used as a form of openness and expression of trust (Norton & Baptist, 2014;Tokunaga, 2011). However, further research on this particular boundary change is necessary in order to more fully understand how CMC is reconfiguring relationships.…”

Section: Structural Influence: Online Intrusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Computer‐Mediated Communication in Intimate Relationships: Associations of Boundary Crossing, Intrusion, Relationship Satisfaction, and Partner Responsiveness

Norton¹,

Baptist

Hogan

2017

J Marital Family Therapy

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This study examined the impact of technology on couples in committed relationships through the lens of the couple and technology framework. Specifically, we used data from 6,756 European couples to examine associations between online boundary crossing, online intrusion, relationship satisfaction, and partner responsiveness. The results suggest that participants' reports of online boundary crossing were linked with lower relationship satisfaction and partner responsiveness. Also, lower relationship satisfaction and partner responsiveness were associated with increased online boundary crossing. The results suggest that men, but not women, who reported greater acceptability for online boundary crossing were more likely to have partners who reported lower relationship satisfaction in their relationships. Implications for clinicians, relationship educators, and researchers are discussed. Video Abstract is found in the online version of the article.Technology has enabled new forms of communication that has transformed the way that we connect with those closest to us. Individuals are now using mobile devices on a daily basis to share and communicate in many ways, such as through text messaging, sharing photos through Instagram, sharing experiences through Twitter, posting on Facebook, and video chatting. Communicating through technology, or computer-mediated communication (CMC), has created a new form of connectedness for families and couples that is based on remote digital interactions and shared experiences (Kennedy, Smith, Wells, & Wellman, 2008).

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“…Recent scholarship builds on previous studies by finding that electronic intrusion such as spying on a romantic partner's electronic communications without permission, monitoring a partner's whereabouts through social media, and scrutinizing who comprises a partner's network on social media are positively associated with levels of attachment anxiety in college dating relationships (Reed, Tolman, & Safyer, ). These behaviors suggest that social media may increase the risk for college students to regularly engage in the intrusion of partners’ social media as a means to mediate personal attachment anxiety.…”

Section: Campus Social Experience and Cocurricular Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Media in Higher Education

Rowan-Kenyon¹,

Alemán²,

Gin³

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ASHE Higher Education Report

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Too close for comfort: Attachment insecurity and electronic intrusion in college students’ dating relationships

Cited by 73 publications

References 34 publications

Mate Value Discrepancy and Attachment Anxiety Predict the Perpetration of Digital Dating Abuse

Mate Value Discrepancy and Attachment Anxiety Predict the Perpetration of Digital Dating Abuse

Computer‐Mediated Communication in Intimate Relationships: Associations of Boundary Crossing, Intrusion, Relationship Satisfaction, and Partner Responsiveness

Social Media in Higher Education

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