Romantic Relationships and Media

Valerie Ellen Kretz

doi:10.5771/9781666932430

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Copyright year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-3242-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-3243-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 176
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Defining Romantic Relationships No access
2. Communication and Relationships No access
3. Romantic Relationships and Media No access
4. A Preview No access
5. In-Depth Interviews No access
1. 1. 1. 1. Rejecting Online Dating No access
  2. 1. Proximity No access
    2. Physical Attractiveness No access
    3. Similarity No access
    4. Reciprocity No access
    5. Misattribution and Priming Romance No access
  3. Final Thoughts No access
2. 1. 1. Uncertainty Reduction Theory No access
    2. Stages of Relationships No access
    3. Turning Points No access
  2. 1. Social Information Processing Theory No access
    2. The Hyperpersonal Model No access
    3. Modality Switching No access
    4. Media Multiplexity No access
  3. Final Thoughts No access
3. 1. Media Portrayals of Maintenance No access
  2. 1. Joint Leisure No access
    2. Shared Networks No access
    3. Communication No access
  3. Digitally Mediated Communication as Maintenance No access
  4. Media Disrupting Maintenance No access
  5. Final Thoughts No access
4. 1. 1. The Spread of Dissolution No access
  2. 1. Ghosting No access
  3. 1. DMC for Dissolution Disclosure No access
    2. Reconfiguring Social Networks No access
  4. 1. Staying Connected and Checking Up No access
    2. Managing Digital Relationship Remains No access
    3. Media for Mood Management No access
  5. Final Thoughts No access
1. 1. 1. Attachment Orientation No access
    2. Dysfunctional Relationship Beliefs No access
    3. Love Styles No access
    4. Romantic Ideals No access
  2. Relationship Comparisons No access
  3. 1. Dating Scripts No access
    2. Online Self-Presentation No access
  4. Final Thoughts No access
2. 1. 1. 1. Mainstream Sexual Media No access
      2. Sexually Explicit Media No access
    2. Educational Effects No access
    3. Setting the Mood No access
  2. 1. Children and Adolescents No access
    2. Emerging Adults No access
    3. Adults No access
  3. Final Thoughts No access
3. 1. 1. DMC as Instigator No access
    2. Entertainment and Screen Time As Instigators No access
    3. Avoiding Conflict about Media No access
  2. 1. Using DMC During Conflict No access
    2. DMC and Conflict Behaviors No access
    3. Entertainment Media During Conflict No access
  3. 1. Conflict on TV No access
    2. Media and Aggression No access
  4. Final Thoughts No access
4. 1. 1. Jealousy and Entertainment No access
    2. 1. Retroactive Jealousy No access
    3. Phubbing and Jealousy No access
    4. 1. Intimate Partner Violence No access
  2. 1. DMC Before and After Infidelity No access
    2. Entertainment and Infidelity No access
  3. 1. Deception via DMC No access
  4. Putting the Issues Together No access
  5. Final Thoughts No access
5. 1. 1. Attitudes About Romantic Relationships No access
    2. Romantic Relationship Beliefs No access
    3. Learning from Paracouples No access
    4. Romantic Relationships as Social Context No access
  2. 1. Parasocial Romance Defined and Described No access
    2. Parasocial Romance and Relationship Issues No access
  3. Final Thoughts No access
1. Creating More Interconnections No access
2. Changing with the Times No access
3. Conclusion No access
1. Dating, Engaged, Married Participants No access
2. Single Participants No access
Appendix B No access Pages 131 - 132
Bibliography No access Pages 133 - 172
Index No access Pages 173 - 174
About the Author No access Pages 175 - 176