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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/IJoC.2019.15.2.029

Adolescents' Friendship Maintenance via Smartphones: The Interactive Relationship between Psychological Factors and Friendship Network Size  

Park, Namsu (Digital Communication Research Center Konkuk University)
Baek, Kanghui (Department of Politics & Communication Studies Hannam University)
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International Journal of Contents / v.15, no.2, 2019 , pp. 29-37 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study investigates how adolescents' smartphone attachment, social anxiety, and offline and smartphone network sizes are related to their friendship in regards to maintaining either a strong or weak bond. Based on an online survey involving 402 adolescent smartphone users in South Korea, this study found that smartphone attachment was positively related to a strong ties friendship maintenance and negatively related to weak ties friendships. Similarly, social anxiety was found to be negatively associated with friendship maintenance for both strong and weak - tie relationships. More importantly, this study revealed that the types and size of social networks moderated the relationships among adolescents with smartphone attachment, social anxiety, and friendship maintenance through smartphones.
Keywords
Adolescent; Smartphone Attachment; Social Anxiety; Network Size; Strong and Weak Ties; Friendship Maintenance via Smartphone;
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