Cell Phone Usage Expectations, Closeness, and Relationship Satisfaction Between Parents and Their Emerging Adults in College

Miller‐Ott, Aimee E.; Kelly, Lynne; Duran, Robert L.

doi:10.1177/2167696814550195

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“…The new millennium has seen frequent contact between college students and their parents, with 40% of students reporting daily interactions with family members and 82% reporting contact at least weekly (Liu et al 2008). College students report that they call or text with their mothers about 12 times per week and their fathers 6 times per week (Miller-Ott et al 2014). A total of 35% of US parents report that technology makes parenting easier (Lauricella et al 2016) and many youths likewise tout the benefits of parent-child digital communication (Campbell 2006;Chen and Katz 2009).…”

Section: Parenting In the Digital Agementioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Parenting of Emerging Adults in the 21st Century

2021

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In emerging adulthood, when many young people are away from their families for the first time, mobile phones become an important conduit for maintaining relationships with parents. Yet, objective assessment of the content and frequency of text messaging between emerging adults and their parents is lacking in much of the research to date. We collected two weeks of text messages exchanged between U.S. college students (N = 238) and their parents, which yielded nearly 30,000 parent-emerging adult text messages. We coded these text message exchanges for traditional features of parent-emerging adult communication indexing positive connection, monitoring and disclosures. Emerging adults texted more with mothers than with fathers and many messages constitute parental check-ins and emerging adult sharing regarding youth behavior and well-being. Findings highlight that both the frequency and content of parent-emerging adult text messages can be linked with positive (perceived text message support) and negative (perceived digital pressure) aspects of the parent-emerging adult relationship. The content of parent-emerging adult text messages offers a valuable, objective window into the nature of the parent-emerging adult relationships in the digital age of the 21st century.

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Section: Parenting In the Digital Agementioning

confidence: 99%

Digital Parenting of Emerging Adults in the 21st Century

2021

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“…Face-to-face interactions have long typified private and personal messages, as individuals use directed messages with proximal communicators to develop relationships and seek social support (Altman and Taylor, 1973; Burleson et al, 1994). Likewise, telephone calls can mediate these personalized messages accessible to only those parties on the call, such as parents who increasingly use mobile phones to maintain relationships with their collegiate children (Miller-Ott et al, 2014).…”

Section: Quadrant I: Private and Personalmentioning

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Masspersonal communication: A model bridging the mass-interpersonal divide

O'Sullivan

Carr

2017

New Media & Society

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Theoretical discussions about the false dichotomy between interpersonal and mass communication scholarship continue while the emergence of powerful and flexible digital communication tools have made the old distinctions more permeable than ever. Individuals are using communication technologies in ways that expand the intersection of interpersonal communication and mass communication, calling for new frameworks. We introduce masspersonal communication as a concept at the intersections of mass and interpersonal communication, with examples from older and newer communication technologies and practices. The masspersonal communication model is introduced incorporating two dimensions—perceived message accessibility and message personalization—that link mass communication and interpersonal communication and redefine each independent of channel.

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“…Thanks to communication technologies, college students today have frequent interaction with parents via electronic channels (Miller-Ott, Kelly, & Duran, 2014; Schon, 2014) despite the physical distance. Frequent parent-child communication is associated with higher relational closeness (Miller-Ott et al, 2014) and relationship satisfaction (Schon, 2014) between college students and their parents. Among various social media, SNSs may stand out for their low intrusiveness and convenience in sharing life events.…”

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Social Media as More Than a Peer Space: College Freshmen Encountering Parents on Facebook

Yang

2016

Journal of Adolescent Research

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Social networking sites, first embraced by youth, have become increasingly popular among older generations. With more parents joining the sites, young people today are likely to encounter their parents on these platforms. However, there is limited information about how youth respond to the changing landscape, especially during the transition to a residential college, when parental support is particularly important but parent-child interaction may be disrupted by geographical distance. Drawing on literature of college transition, youth's relationship with parents, and "context collapse," this study explores how college freshmen react to parents' participation in Facebook. Fifty-one semistructured interviews were conducted with 28 first-year students attending a major residential U.S. university (age M = 18.14, SD = 0.45; 50% female; 75% White, 11% multiethnic, 7% Asian, and 7% Latino). Findings showed that college freshmen overwhelmingly accepted parents and family adults as their Facebook Friends and offered them equal access as that offered to peers. Facebook provided a space for college freshmen and parents to bond and express affections, although freshmen sometimes considered family adults as being overresponsive or overreactive to Facebook posts. The implications of "friending" parents on Facebook

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Cell Phone Usage Expectations, Closeness, and Relationship Satisfaction Between Parents and Their Emerging Adults in College

Cited by 36 publications

References 46 publications

Digital Parenting of Emerging Adults in the 21st Century

Digital Parenting of Emerging Adults in the 21st Century

Masspersonal communication: A model bridging the mass-interpersonal divide

Social Media as More Than a Peer Space: College Freshmen Encountering Parents on Facebook

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