Explaining how college-aged individuals provide information to friends experiencing romantic relational uncertainty

Q2 Social Sciences

Interpersona Pub Date : 2019-07-19 DOI:10.5964/IJPR.V13I1.327

Tara G. McManus, Y. Yurashevich, Courtney McDaniel

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Abstract

College-aged individuals report having difficulty deciding what and how much information to provide to friends, yet they often turn to one another for information when experiencing relational uncertainty in a romantic relationship. Given the central role friendships have in college-aged individuals’ lives, identifying ways to decrease the difficulty of providing information is necessary. By framing friends’ relational uncertainty conversations as an information management process, the information-provider’s cognitions and emotions are highlighted as factors likely influencing the information provided to friends requesting it to manage their relational uncertainty. In an online survey (N = 367), participants recalled their most recent conversation in which a friend requested information to help manage a romantic relational uncertainty. Results showed participants provided a greater amount, more accurate, and more positively valenced information to friends when participants had positive expected outcomes and greater efficacy assessments. However, anxiety had a small negative effect on expected outcomes, efficacy assessments, and the information provided. In addition to the theoretical contributions, results suggest that helping college-aged individuals focus on the positive outcomes of relational uncertainty conversations and improving their efficacy could help them be better information-providers to friends.

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解释大学生如何向经历恋爱关系不确定的朋友提供信息

大学年龄的人报告说，他们很难决定向朋友提供什么和多少信息，但当他们在恋爱关系中遇到关系不确定时，他们经常向彼此寻求信息。鉴于友谊在大学生生活中的核心作用，找到减少提供信息困难的方法是必要的。通过将朋友的关系不确定性对话作为一个信息管理过程，信息提供者的认知和情绪被强调为可能影响向朋友提供信息的因素，要求它来管理他们的关系不确定性。在一项在线调查中(N = 367)，参与者回忆了他们最近的一次谈话，其中一位朋友要求提供信息，以帮助处理一段不确定的恋爱关系。结果显示，当参与者有积极的预期结果和更高的疗效评估时，他们会向朋友提供更多、更准确、更积极的信息。然而，焦虑对预期结果、疗效评估和提供的信息有很小的负面影响。除了理论贡献外，研究结果还表明，帮助大学生关注关系不确定性对话的积极结果并提高其效能，可以帮助他们更好地向朋友提供信息。

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Interpersona Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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1.00

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38 weeks

期刊介绍： 1) Interpersona aims at promoting scholarship in the field of interpersonal relationships based on different methodologies and stemming from several disciplines, including Psychology, Family Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication Studies, Economics, Management Science, Biology, Health Sciences, History, and others. Interpersona aims at contributing to the collective construction of an Interpersonal Relationship Science. 2) Manuscripts examining a wide range of relationships, including close or intimate relationships and weak or temporary ties, are welcome. Some examples are indicated below: Biology - Biological foundations of human relationships: physiological and neurobiological phenomena related to interpersonal interactions. The evolutionary foundations of interpersonal relationships including comparative and animal studies of social interactions. Psychology and Family Studies: close or intimate relations including romantic relationships, family relationships and friendship. Family relationships encompass spouses, parents and children, siblings, and other relations among nuclear and extended family members.[...] 3) In addition to original empirical (qualitative or quantitative) research, theoretical or methodological contributions, integrative reviews, meta-analyses, comparative or historical studies, and critical assessments of the status of the field are welcome as submissions. 4) Interpersona is a totally free access journal and readers may read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles without any charge. All papers are peer-reviewed by members of the editorial board or ad-hoc reviewers under the supervision of an editor. [...] 5) All Interpersona content is available in full text with no charge. All submitted papers are reviewed by at least two referees before being accepted for publication.