{"id":28,"date":"2014-05-06T16:05:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T21:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2021-04-18T22:20:42","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T02:20:42","slug":"study-links-social-media-use-with-dissatisfaction-among-couples","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/study-links-social-media-use-with-dissatisfaction-among-couples\/","title":{"rendered":"Study links social media use with dissatisfaction among couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time spent on social network sites such as Facebook could be an indicator of a failing marriage, according to a team of researchers that included <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about-com\/faculty-directory\/james-e-katz\/\" title=\"Bio for Dr. James Katz\">Dr. James Katz<\/a><\/strong>, Feld Professor of Emerging Media at Boston University. Katz teamed with <strong>Sebastian Valenzuela<\/strong> and <strong>Daniel Halpern<\/strong> of the Catholic University of Chile in examining data from the United States that compared divorce rates in each state with Facebook penetration. Their work appeared in the journal <em>Computers in Human Behavior<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The authors write, &#8220;It may seem surprising that a Facebook profile, a relatively small factor compared to other drivers of human behavior, could have a significant statistical relationship with divorce rates and marital dissatisfaction. It nonetheless seems to be the case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a separate set of data collected as part of a survey of married people by the University of Texas at Austin, the researchers found that those who spent more time on social network sites reported lower levels of marital happiness.<\/p>\n<p>Is spending time on Facebook the cause of unhappy marriages, or is it a symptom? The researchers say that is not clear&#8230; and that the answer could be both.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0747563214001563\">Read more about the report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time spent on social network sites such as Facebook could be an indicator of a failing marriage, according to a&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":[29,31],"bu-publication":[],"discipline-type":[],"bu_edition":[],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/28"}],"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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22893,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/28\/revisions\/22893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"discipline-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline-type?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}