{"id":18,"date":"2014-06-11T15:54:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T20:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2015-10-20T14:03:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T18:03:21","slug":"published-study-finds-social-media-souring-marriages","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/published-study-finds-social-media-souring-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Published study finds social media souring marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2514\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/com\/files\/2015\/08\/Katz-James-3.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. James Katz\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2015\/08\/Katz-James-3.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2015\/08\/Katz-James-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2015\/08\/Katz-James-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/files\/2015\/08\/Katz-James-3-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. James Katz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Findings from a series of studies performed by a group of researchers including Emerging Media Studies professor James Katz show a correlation between heavy social media use and marriage dissatisfaction.<\/p>\n<p>Using data from surveys conducted in 2008 to 2010, the researchers found that a 20 percent increase in Facebook users by state would increase divorce rates by 2.18 percent. It should be stressed that the findings shouldn&#8217;t be taken as a causal factor, but it could be a &#8220;significant predictor of divorce rates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a 2011 University of Texas at Austin study found that 11.4 percent of &#8220;non-social&#8221; network users were happier with their relationships than those with heavier social media usage. These findings and research are examples of the sort of research undergoing at the <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/cmcs\/\">Center for Mobile Communications Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2014\/could-facebook-use-end-a-marriage\/\" class=\"button bg-green\">Read the full story on BU Today<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Findings from a series of studies performed by a group of researchers including Emerging Media Studies professor James Katz show&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9776,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"categories":[28,177],"tags":[],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22886,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/18\/revisions\/22886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}