ERIC Number: EJ998318
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
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Love in the Time of Facebook: How Technology Now Shapes Romantic Attachments in College Students
Klein, Michael C.
Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, v27 n2 p149-158 2013
College counseling clinicians need to understand how students use technology to form, sustain, and end romantic attachments. Students now frequently incorporate aspects of these technologically based interactions, or mediated communications, into counseling sessions and often make important attributions based on them. Heavy daily use of a growing array of options includes telephonic conversations, text messaging, chat, Facebook, and e-mail. This article will provide a theoretical framework that integrates attachment and communications theory to assist college counseling clinicians to make positive therapeutic use of this remarkable shift in how students communicate in romantic (and other) relationships.
Descriptors: Social Networks, Attachment Behavior, Intimacy, College Students, Information Technology, Computer Mediated Communication, Counseling Techniques, Telecommunications, Asynchronous Communication, Therapy, Interpersonal Relationship
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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