title: Sharing, caring, and surveilling: an actor-partner interdependence model examination of Facebook relational maintenance strategies.
abstract: Abstract Relational maintenance is connected to high quality friendships. Friendship maintenance behaviors may occur online via social networking sites. This study utilized an Actor-Partner Interdependence Model to examine how Facebook maintenance and surveillance affect friendship quality. Bryant and Marmo's (2012) Facebook maintenance scale was evaluated, revealing two factors: sharing and caring. Facebook surveillance was also measured. For friendship satisfaction and liking, significant positive actor and partner effects emerged for caring; significant negative actor, partner, and interaction effects emerged for sharing; and significant positive actor effects emerged for surveillance. For friendship closeness, significant positive actor effects emerged for caring and surveillance.
authors: Western Illinois University , Macomb, Illinois.
authors: Bree
authors: B
authors: McEwan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D060756:Social Networking