Couple and chat: a winning combination?
Technology can certainly facilitate exchanges and communications, the important thing is not to abuse it and not to allow it to replace the good old four-eyed dialogue.
A matter of common sense, but also of science, it seems. In fact, the results of a study conducted by Brigham Young University on 276 individuals between the ages of 18 and 25 all engaged in important relationships were disclosed, which reveal how couples in which there is an abuse of communications via chat, email or social networks , in reality they are not so stable and happy. What is also striking is the fact that many tend to resolve quarrels and differences of opinion via chat, as if to avoid a face-to-face confrontation.
The study, published in the specialist journal, dedicated to couple problems, Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy, although not particularly representative due to the rather small sample, it nevertheless focuses on a wider and rapidly growing phenomenon, that is, the one that sees social exchanges taking place more and more through the use of tools and technologies that risk depersonalizing communications and limit first-person involvement.
Lori Schade, among the researchers involved in the study, commented: “We are wondering if this means men cut off or replace in-person conversations with more texting. Perhaps when they get out of a relationship, they write more frequently because text is the safest form of communication. We do not know why, it is just a "hypothesis".
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