relating at a distance: navigating long-distance romantic relationships by: lindsay bailey
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Relating at a Distance: Navigating Long-distance Romantic Relationships
By: Lindsay Bailey
Why Did I Choose This Topic ?
Presentation Overview• Introduction• Behavioral maintenance strategies and
satisfaction• Maintenance and communication
strategies in LDRRs versus GCRRs• Challenges of CMC• Synthesis and further research• Conclusion
Behavioral Maintenance Strategies and Satisfaction• Satisfaction• Behavioral maintenance strategies
Five main maintenance strategiesFour additional maintenance strategies
How to Reach Satisfaction• Stafford, 2010
Adaptation• Maguire and Kinney, 2010
Maintenance focused strategies
and stress• Roberts and Pistole, 2009
Attachment
LDRRs vs. GCRRs• Daiton and Aylor, 2001
GCRRs did not use more maintenance strategies
• Roberts and Pistole, 2009 LDRR attachment and frequency
• Stafford, 2010Speech event patterns
Challenges of CMC• Johnson et al., 2008
Defining CMC• Dainton and Aylor, 2002
Channels were functional alternatives• Maguire, 2007 and Merolla, 2010
Most useful form of CMC• Maguire, 2007
Using CMC and behavioral maintenance strategies• Merolla, 2010
Factors influencing communication
Synthesis and Further Research
• Behavioral maintenance strategies • Relationship satisfaction• CMC and maintenance
RQ1. Webcams, behavioral maintenance, satisfaction
H1. Satisfaction will be highly correlated with webcams and behavioral maintenance patterns will continue to show the same patterns as traditional CMC use
Conclusions• Achieve satisfaction in LDRRs• LDRRs vs. GCRRs• The most effective ways to use CMC
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