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Question 1

Author, date

Answer 1

LeFebvre et al.

2014

Question 2

What does the study look at?

Answer 2

Explores how people use social networking sites to adjust to breakups by studying their post-dissolution behaviours

Question 3

What is the research question?

Answer 3

What Facebook behaviours do people engage in during and after relationship breakups?

Question 4

Who were the participants?

Answer 4

• 208 undergrad students

Question 5

What did the participants do?

Answer 5

• Completed an online survey where they reported on a romantic relationship, which had ended within the past 2 years

Question 6

What did the researchers analyse?

Answer 6

• Reported before and after behaviours of the participants

- Coded them for comparison

Question 7

Findings: During relationship dissolution

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Answer 7

1. No or minimal facebook activity:
   - Most frequent
   - Participants did not engage or display
   Facebook management strategies during relationship deterioration
   - Minimal technology use during breakup
2. Relational cleansing:
   - Purging and purifying online relational presence
   - Changing relationship status
   - Deleting evidence of relationship from SNS
3. Electronic surveillance:
   - Stalking partner
   - Observing partner’s actions throughout breakup
4. Self-regulation from partner
   - Avoiding partner
5. Normative facebook use
   - No change
   - Didn’t want to show anything was wrong
6. Self-regulation from facebook
   - Reducing time online

Question 8

Findings: After relationship dissolution

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Answer 8

• Overlap in categories
• Most prominent; Increase in relational/virtual cleansing; to remove remains of relationship from the internet
• Limited or no facebook activity
• Electronic surveillance after breakup; shows failure to disconnect from partner
• Withdrawing access; blocking and unfriending
• Impression management; presenting the self positively online to make partner jealous or regretful, show you’re ready for new relationship

Question 9

Second analysis RQ

Answer 9

Do those who engaged in the use of facebook during the breakup report different post-dissolution adjustment to those that didn’t use it?

Question 10

Second analysis:

Findings

Answer 10

• Those who reported less use of facebook during the breakup demonstrated a higher adjustment during post-dissolution

Question 11

Dissolution model:

What links did they find?

Answer 11

• Model provides link between offline breakup and social network sites
• Social network essential for Facebook so evidence of social, grave-dressing and resurrection processes
• Behaviours displayed reflect progression through the dissolution model processes
• Facebook behaviours more often than not evidenced engagement in intra-psychic and dyadic processes

Question 12

Effect of technology on relationship dissolution

Answer 12

• Makes it hard to erase memories due to digital footprint; hard to delete all traces

Question 13

Explicit examples of dissolution model found in research?

Answer 13

Gravedressing/resurrection:

• Cleaning up old memories (deleting, untagging)
• Unfriending
• To move on and prepare fore new relationship

Question 14

What were the main-sub conclusions from the paper?

Answer 14

1. Facebook behaviours evidenced the dissolution model, some more so than others
2. Technology hinders ones ability to get over and move on from ex partners (the dissolution process)
3. Those who reported no facebook use had higher post-break up adjustment than those who used facebook during the break up
4. Facebook behaviours encourage negative outcomes such as surveillance and jealousy
5. SNS doesn’t allow for the “cleansing re-birth” post-break up

Question 15

What was the big end conclusion?

Answer 15

• Certain components of the relationship dissolution model are amplified and altered by the unique aspects of online communication