If your relationship involves a lot of texting, it may not be the happiest of unions.
That’s the most significant finding of a study published this week on how serious couples use digital technology to communicate. Conducted by researchers at Brigham Young University, the study found that when men text their female partner frequently, they also find the relationship to be of lower quality.
The setting of the study, though, is a little weird, and not just in a “Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic” sense (although the study’s authors explicitly concede that the subjects were overwhelmingly white and highly educated). The study sampled a small group — only 276 18- to 25-year-olds — and of those sampled, this being a Brigham Young study, about a third were Mormon. According to the Pew Research Center, only 1.7% of Americans identify as Mormon. Likewise, 62% of the sampled couples were engaged or married; According to 2012 U.S. Census data, 85.3% of 20- to 24-year-old Americans have never been married. Read more…
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