Does Online Dating Make Relationships More Successful? Replication and Extension of a Previous Study.

IF 5.4 3区材料科学 Q2 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL

ACS Applied Energy Materials Pub Date : 2024-09-01 Epub Date: 2024-07-26 DOI:10.1089/cyber.2024.0136

Junwen M Hu, Rui Zhu, Yue Zhang

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Abstract

A previous study has found a negative correlation between meeting one's romantic partner in online dating (vs. offline) and marriage quality through a quota sample of the U.S. population. This current study replicates and extends this previous study by analyzing another sample of the U.S. population from the Pew Research Center (N = 2,787). Largely consistent with the previous finding, we found that meeting one's partner in online dating (vs. offline) was marginally related to experiencing less relationship success among people in a marital relationship. However, the difference was not observed among people in a nonmarital romantic relationship. In addition, sharing or discussing one's relationship or dating life (i.e., relationship talks) on social media (RToSM) conditioned the link between meeting venue and relationship success. That is, for marital relationships, meeting in online dating was only linked to less relationship success among people with no RToSM but not among those who had RToSM; for nonmarital relationships, there was a positive link between meeting in online dating and relationship success among those who had RToSM, but this positive link was not observed among those who had no RToSM. We further discuss the implications of our findings on the long-term impact of online dating in marital and nonmarital romantic relationships.

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网上约会会让恋爱更成功吗？前一项研究的复制与扩展。

之前的一项研究通过对美国人口进行配额抽样调查发现，在网上约会（与线下约会相比）中邂逅浪漫伴侣与婚姻质量之间存在负相关关系。本研究通过分析皮尤研究中心（Pew Research Center）的另一个美国人口样本（N = 2,787），复制并扩展了之前的研究。与之前的研究结果基本一致，我们发现，在婚姻关系中，通过在线约会（与离线约会相比）结识伴侣与关系成功率较低有微弱关系。然而，在非婚恋关系中却观察不到这种差异。此外，在社交媒体（RToSM）上分享或讨论自己的恋爱或约会生活（即恋爱谈话）也是聚会地点与恋爱成功之间联系的条件。也就是说，在婚姻关系中，只有在没有 RToSM 的人中，在网络约会中见面才会降低关系成功率，而在有 RToSM 的人中则不会；在非婚姻关系中，在有 RToSM 的人中，在网络约会中见面与关系成功率之间存在正向联系，但在没有 RToSM 的人中却观察不到这种正向联系。我们进一步讨论了我们的研究结果对在线约会在婚姻和非婚姻恋爱关系中长期影响的意义。

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ACS Applied Energy Materials Materials Science-Materials Chemistry

CiteScore

10.30

自引率

6.20%

发文量

1368

期刊介绍： ACS Applied Energy Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of materials, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to energy conversion and storage. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrate knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important energy applications.