Equity, relational maintenance, and linguistic features of text messaging

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Highlights:

• Equity predicted maintenance via texting for friends, but not romantic partners.

• Using the positivity strategy predicted satisfaction in both relationship types.

• Openness was inversely related to satisfaction in romantic relationships.

• Use of negative emotion words was negatively associated with satisfaction.

• Inequity of a relationship positively predicted the use of anxiety words.

摘要

•Equity predicted maintenance via texting for friends, but not romantic partners.•Using the positivity strategy predicted satisfaction in both relationship types.•Openness was inversely related to satisfaction in romantic relationships.•Use of negative emotion words was negatively associated with satisfaction.•Inequity of a relationship positively predicted the use of anxiety words.

论文关键词:Mobile communication,Text messaging,Computer-mediated communication,Relational maintenance,Equity theory,Automated linguistic analysis

论文评审过程:Available online 1 April 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.03.037