Personal, editable, and always accessible: An affordance approach to the relationship between adolescents’ mobile messaging behavior and their friendship quality

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 875-893

  Abeele, Mariek Vanden ^a   Schouten, Alexander P ^b   Antheunis, Marjolijn L ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adolescence; affordances; companionship; friendship; mobile messaging; mobile phone; support; Uses and Gratifications

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027725457     PISSN: 02654075     EISSN: 14603608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265407516660636     Document Type: Article

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