Mobile Phone Use in Romantic Relationships

Summary: Text and phone conversations, although important for maintenance of romantic relationships, are competent enough to be stripped of many cues often used to decipher meaning. When the communication takes place through face-to-face interactions. Thereby, it can be understood that symbolically. Meaning derived from mobile phone use may consist of more than the recordable contents of the conversations over the time. Creating different implications.

Source: Neuropsychology Review.

Although mobile phones have focused for a variety of purposes. Relationship maintenance have over the time emerged as one of the primary reasons for most text messages and phone calls that are made.

Studies that are categorized as mobile phone communications are based on intent of the sender. It indicates that somewhere between one-half and two-thirds of all text messages are for the purpose of maintaining their friendships, romances, and other related social contacts.

In a recent Pew report, teens were found reporting that texting was their primary means of spending time with that of their significant other. Not only limiting itself to young users, mobile phone communication is also listed frequently in the romantic relationships of middle-aged couples. Furthermore, 21% of couples have been found to indicate feeling closer to their partner because of online communication or text messages over the phone.

There has been a research explosion regarding the role of mobile phones in communication processes of romantic couples. A review article with its purpose to highlight the state of the literature in this specific area in the terms of positive and negative aspects of the constant contact that can be afforded by mobile phones was conducted.

The researchers have included symbolic interactionism to throw a light on the ways in which mobile phones act as a vehicle of symbol-creating interaction when actors are found to attach and glean meanings from interactions that occur through mobile phones. Text and phone conversations are competent enough to be stripped of many cues often used to decipher meaning when the communication takes place through face-to-face interactions.

Thereby, it can be understood that symbolically, meaning derived from mobile phone use may consist of more than the recordable contents of the conversations over the time, creating different implications.