It’s certainly not the first time you’ve taken your couple’s discussion to a messaging app like WhatsApp, showing all your anger with emotional messages or more calmly with rational messages.
But maybe if you want to save your marriage or relationship, you should bet on WhatsApp, at least according to a study that found that the messaging app gives quarreling couples another place to go. can quarrel and reconcile.
And it is written correspondence that gives the members of the relationship time to reread and more calmly process the other person’s point of view, something that cannot be handled in the same way if discussed face to face. On the other hand, emojis help you better express your feelings.
“Chatting via WhatsApp not only offers another place to conduct relationships, but it can also help to keep them going.“, points to Dr. Gali Einav from Reichmann University in Israel.
To come to a conclusion, the study sought to examine how WhatsApp has changed the way Gen Xers communicate. To do this, the researchers interviewed 18 couples aged 35 to 50 who had been together for more than five years. .
For this they observed the three main types of angry interactions that psychologists believe take place in real life such as avoidance, emotionality and rationality to see how they have evolved in messaging apps like WhatsApp.
Avoidant couples tended to ignore each other’s messages for several days. Emotional couples used the app to constantly send messages. While the rational would take their time to respond to messages more leisurely and calmly.
“Fighting or problem solving is essential to maintaining a healthy relationship. If we better understand our combat patterns, we can use this knowledge to improve our relationships.”, says Dr. Gali Einav.
“There is a perception in Generation X that face-to-face communication is better than digital speech, but we have found that this is not necessarily the case.”, adds Dr. Gali Einav.
The Reichmann University study was published in New Media & Society via Dailymail.
Source: Computer Hoy
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