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Relating at a Distance: Navigating Long-distance Romantic Relationships

Relating at a Distance: Navigating Long-distance Romantic Relationships. By: Lindsay Bailey. Why Did I Choose This Topic ?. Presentation Overview. Introduction Behavioral maintenance strategies and satisfaction Maintenance and communication s trategies in LDRRs versus GCRRs

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Relating at a Distance: Navigating Long-distance Romantic Relationships

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  1. Relating at a Distance: Navigating Long-distance Romantic Relationships By: Lindsay Bailey

  2. Why Did I Choose This Topic ?

  3. Presentation Overview • Introduction • Behavioral maintenance strategies and satisfaction • Maintenance and communication strategies in LDRRs versus GCRRs • Challenges of CMC • Synthesis and further research • Conclusion

  4. Behavioral Maintenance Strategies and Satisfaction • Satisfaction • Behavioral maintenance strategies • Five main maintenance strategies • Four additional maintenance strategies

  5. How to Reach Satisfaction • Stafford, 2010 • Adaptation • Maguire and Kinney, 2010 • Maintenance focused strategies and stress • Roberts and Pistole, 2009 • Attachment

  6. LDRRs vs. GCRRs • Daiton and Aylor, 2001 • GCRRs did not use more maintenance strategies • Roberts and Pistole, 2009 • LDRR attachment and frequency • Stafford, 2010 • Speech event patterns

  7. Challenges of CMC • Johnson et al., 2008 • Defining CMC • Dainton and Aylor, 2002 • Channels were functional alternatives • Maguire, 2007 and Merolla, 2010 • Most useful form of CMC • Maguire, 2007 • Using CMC and behavioral maintenance strategies • Merolla, 2010 • Factors influencing communication

  8. Synthesis and Further Research • Behavioral maintenance strategies • Relationship satisfaction • CMC and maintenance • RQ1. Webcams, behavioral maintenance, satisfaction • H1. Satisfaction will be highly correlated with webcams and behavioral maintenance patterns will continue to show the same patterns as traditional CMC use

  9. Conclusions • Achieve satisfaction in LDRRs • LDRRs vs. GCRRs • The most effective ways to use CMC

  10. References Daiton, M., & Aylor, B. (2001). A relational uncertainty analysis of jealousy, trust, and maintenance in long-distance versus geographically close relationships. Communication Quarterly, 49, 172-188. Dainton, M., & Aylor, B. (2002). Patterns of communication channel use in the maintenance of long-distance relationships. Communication Research Reports, 9, 118-129. Merolla, A. J., (2010). Relational maintenance during military deployment: Perspectives of wives of deployed US soldiers. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 38, 4-26. Johnson, A. J., Haigh, M. M., Becker, J. A. H, Craig, E. A., & Wigley, S. (2008). College students’ use of relational management strategies in email in long-distance and geographically close relationships. Journal of Computer- Mediated Communication, 13, 381-404. Le, B., Korn, M. S., Crockett, E. E., & Loving, T. J., (2010). Missing you maintains us: Missing a romantic partner, commitment, relationship maintenance, and physical infidelity. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 28, 653-667. Long Distance Relationship Statistics, (2012) Retrieved from http://www.statisticbrain.com/long-distance-relationship-statistics/

  11. References Cont. Maguire, K. C., (2007). Bridging the great divide: An examination of the relationship maintenance of couples separated during war. Ohio Communication Journal, 45, 131-158. Maguire. K. C., & Kinney, T. A. (2010). When distance is problematic: Communication, coping, and relational satisfaction in female college students’ longs-distance dating relationships. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 38, 27-46. Roberts, A., & Pistole, M. C., (2009). Long-distance and proximal romantic relationship satisfaction: Attachment and closeness predictors. Journal of College Counseling, 12, 5-17. Stafford, L., (2010). Geographic distance and communication during courtship. Communication Research, 37, 275-297. Wilmot, W. W., & Carbaugh, D. A., (1986). Long-distance lovers: Predicting the dissolution of their relationships. Journal of the Northwest Communication Association, 14, 43-59.

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