Specifically, this study examined if students have been using Facebook.com rather than, and/or in addition to, tradition face-to-face techniques, to establish romantic relationships. A group of 440 undergraduate students were given surveys to complete during class. The survey measured the students' intensity of Facebook usage and also directed each participant to reference an instance where they had met someone socially and later checked them out on Facebook. With this in mind, students were presented with three traditional face-to-face interaction scales: the attributional confidence scale, the interpersonal attraction scale, and the perceived similarity scale. To analyze this data, correlation and independent sample t-tests were run to determine whether students with high intensity Facebook usage were more likely to score higher on these respective scales. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of Communication in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. / Degree Awarded: Spring Semester, 2007. / Date of Defense: December 15, 2006. / Computer-Mediated Communication, Romantic Relationships / Includes bibliographical references. / Arthur A. Raney, Professor Directing Thesis; Ulla Bunz, Committee Member; Andrew Opel, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_168333 |
| Contributors | Andon, Stephen P. (authoraut), Raney, Arthur A. (professor directing thesis), Bunz, Ulla (committee member), Opel, Andrew (committee member), School of Communication (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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