Explaining How College-Aged Individuals Provide Information to Friends Experiencing Romantic Relational Uncertainty

Abstract: College-aged individuals report having difficulty deciding what and how much information to provide to friends, yet they often turn to one another for information when experiencing relational uncertainty in a romantic relationship. Given the central role friendships have in college-aged individuals’ lives, identifying ways to decrease the difficulty of providing information is necessary. By framing friends’ relational uncertainty conversations as an information management process, the information-provider’s cognitions and emotions are highlighted as factors likely influencing the information provided to friends requesting it to manage their relational uncertainty. In an online survey (N = 367), participants recalled their most recent conversation in which a friend requested information to help manage a romantic relational uncertainty. Results showed participants provided a greater amount, more accurate, and more positively valenced information to friends when participants had posit.... https://interpersona.psychopen.eu/index.php/interpersona/article/view/3583

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Explaining How College-Aged Individuals Provide Information to Friends Experiencing Romantic Relational Uncertainty ; volume:13 ; number:1 ; day:19 ; month:07 ; year:2019 ; Interpersona ; 13, Heft 1 (19.07.2019)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Tara G. McManus ; Yuliya Yurashevich ; Courtney McDaniel

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/ijpr.v13i1.327
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101418342566352912
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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