Relational quality and media use in interpersonal relationships

New Media and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 735-752

  Baym, Nancy K ^a   Yan Bing Zhang, ^a   Kunkel, Adrianne ^a,b   Ledbetter, Andrew ^a   Lin, Mei Chen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Media use; Relational closeness; Relational quality; Relational satisfaction; Relationship type; Sex

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348814968     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444807080339     Document Type: Article

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