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“Technoference”: The interference of technology in couple relationships and implications for women’s personal and relational well-being.

Problematic use of social networking sites (SNS) and its adverse consequences have become prevalent, yet little is known about the conceptualization and etiology of problematic use of SNS. ...

Problematic Use of Social Networking Sites: Antecedents and Consequence from a Dual-System Theory Perspective

Partner phubbing and depression among married Chinese adults: The roles of relationship satisfaction and relationship length

The purpose of this study was to examine the predictors and consequences associated with Instagram selfie posting. Thus, this study explored whether body image satisfaction predicts Instagram selfie posting and whether Instagram selfie posting is then associated with Instagram-related conflict and negative romantic relationship outcomes. A total of 420 Instagram users aged 18 to 62 years (M = 29.3, SD = 8.12) completed an online survey questionnaire. Analysis of a serial multiple mediator model using bootstrapping methods indicated that body image satisfaction was sequentially associated with increased Instagram selfie posting and Instagram-related conflict, which related to increased negative romantic relationship outcomes. These findings suggest that when Instagram users promote their body image satisfaction in the form of Instagram selfie posts, risk of Instagram-related conflict and negative romantic relationship outcomes might ensue. Findings from the current study provide a baseline underst...

Instagram Unfiltered: Exploring Associations of Body Image Satisfaction, Instagram #Selfie Posting, and Negative Romantic Relationship Outcomes

Do You Have Anything to Hide? Infidelity-Related Behaviors on Social Media Sites and Marital Satisfaction.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between using the social networking site known as Facebook and negative interpersonal relationship outcomes. A survey of 205 Facebook users aged 18–82 was conducted using a 16-question online survey to examine whether high levels of Facebook use predicted negative relationship outcomes (breakup/divorce, emotional cheating, and physical cheating). It was hypothesized that those with higher levels of Facebook use would demonstrate more negative relationship outcomes than those with lower use. The study then examined whether these relationships were mediated by Facebook-related conflict. Furthermore, the researchers examined length of relationship as a moderator variable in the aforementioned model. The results indicate that a high level of Facebook usage is associated with negative relationship outcomes, and that these relationships are indeed mediated by Facebook-related conflict. This series of relationships only holds for those...

Cheating, Breakup, and Divorce: Is Facebook Use to Blame?

This study examined propositions stemming from self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985), which contends that motivational consequences and positive outcomes are predicted by the needs for competence, relatedness, and autonomy. Participants completed the Psychological Need Satisfaction in Exercise (Wilson, Rogers, Rodgers, & Wild, 2006) scale and had their gym access activity monitored for six weeks. Regression analyses revealed that only competence emerged as a statistically significant predictor of exercise participation, and that this prediction was true for women only (p = .04). These findings suggest that exercise and health professionals must take care to ensure that this need is met, particularly in their female clients who may be impacted by traditional gender roles in sport contexts.

https://file.scirp.org/pdf/APE_2013022714105849.pdf

Basic Psychological Needs in Predicting Exercise Participation

This study investigated whether perceived infidelity may be predicted from gender, communion, fear of intimacy, and rejection sensitivity. Undergraduates (272 women, 82 men) completed a questionnaire assessing these variables. MANOVA and regression analyses revealed that women, high-communion individuals, and low fear-of-intimacy individuals were more likely to perceive sex-based acts (e.g. sexual intercourse) and emotion-based acts (e.g. falling in love without acting on the feelings) as constituting infidelity, compared to men, low-communion individuals, and high fear-of-intimacy individuals, respectively. Rejection sensitivity did not predict perceived infidelity. This research has implications for perceived threats being a function of one's level of commitment to their romantic relationship, and applications for partners in counseling to work on the relationship and understand one another better.

Predicting perceived infidelity from gender and interpersonal traits

This study investigated whether safe sex practices, including condom use and partner communication, may be predicted from the interpersonal traits of agency, unmitigated agency, communion, and unmitigated communion. Participants were 375 college students (77% women, 23% men), who completed an online questionnaire assessing the variables of interest. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that high-agency individuals employed greater safe sex practices (p = .001) and had greater communication with their partners about safe sex (p < .001) than low-agency individuals, whereas high-unmitigated agency individuals employed fewer safe sex practices (p = .009) and used condoms less often (p = .017) than low-unmitigated agency individuals. Furthermore, high-communion individuals had better partner communication about safe sex (p = .013) than low-communion individuals. These findings are consistent with past research showing the positive impact of agency and communion, as well as negative impact of unmit...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21642850.2016.1183203

Predicting safe sex practices from gender-related interpersonal variables

Student-to-student interaction is a key element in the learning process, and one that is often missing in online classes. The purpose of this case study is to demonstrate how a technology platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to deepen learning in online discussions by analyzing instructor and student perceptions and examining third-party analytics in two hybrid/blended undergraduate courses. The instructors selected Packback, a third-party online discussion platform, to address some of the engagement issues they encountered in the past when using discussion tools within learning management systems (LMS). Packback increased the depth of student discussions by providing real-time feedback to students on the quality of their posts, thus allowing students to improve the quality of their posts. Packback also allowed for more nuanced evaluation and grading of students' forum posts by instructors.

Alexander Nagurney

Papers

Cheating, Breakup, and Divorce: Is Facebook Use to Blame?

Basic Psychological Needs in Predicting Exercise Participation

Predicting perceived infidelity from gender and interpersonal traits

Predicting safe sex practices from gender-related interpersonal variables

Using an AI-Supported Online Discussion Forum to Deepen Learning