This study examines the relationship between relational quality and media use in relationships. In addition, the impacts of other potentially important variables such as the sex and relationship type of the participants and their partners are explored. College student participants focused on interaction experiences with an acquaintance, friend, romantic partner or family member.The results indi...

Abstract. Social exclusion, even from minimal game-based interactions, induces negative consequences. We investigated whether the nature of relationship with excluder modulates effects ostracism. Participants played a virtual ball-tossing game stranger and friend (friend condition) or their romantic partner (partner while being fully included, excluded, excluded only by stranger, close other. R...

CONTEXT Concurrent sexual partnerships may facilitate the spread of STDs, but little is known about partnership concurrency and its association with the relationship contexts of sexual involvement. METHODS Data about demographic characteristics, sexual histories and the most recent opposite-sex partnership among 783 adults aged 18-59 were drawn from the 1995 Chicago Health and Social Life Sur...

Friend suggestion is a fundamental problem in social networks with the goal of assisting users in creating more relationships, and thereby enhances interest of users to the social networks. This problem is often considered to be the link prediction problem in the network. ZingMe is one of the largest social networks in Vietnam. In this paper, we analyze the current approach for the friend sugge...

OBJECTIVE To compare the relative importance on adolescent smoking of the influence from parental smoking and peer smoking. METHOD National New Zealand crosssectional survey of 14,936 female and 14,349 male Year 10 students (aged 14 and 15 years) who answered an anonymous self-administered questionnaire in November 2002. RESULTS Adolescents with both parents smoking had the highest smoking ...