Texting Relationship Satisfaction

Through the survey method, this study examined if and how texting behavior affects students’ relationship satisfaction. Various questions were used in order to investigate what kind of words students use in their text conversations, who texts first, how often and what is a usual length of the messages. As well, different questions combined from Relationship Assessment Scale, the Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale and the Couples Satisfaction Index assisted to examine students’ satisfaction in their current relationships. All participants of this study (100%; N = 50) were currently in a romantic relationship, where the majority of them were dating (92%; n = 46), the rest of them were either engaged, married, or reported their relationship status …show more content…
As well, all study participants (100%; N = 50) reported to be in heterosexual relationships. While the average age of all fifty participants was 19 years old with the standard deviation of 2,862, the minimum age was 17 and the maximum age was 34. As for relationship length, the average relationship length was eighteen months with the standard deviation of 18,31. The majority of the participants (52%; n = 26) were of European, only 6% (n = 2) were North Americans, 12% (n = 6) were South Americans, 20% (n = 10) were Asians, and 10% (n = 5) were Africans. Finally, most of the participants (78%; n = 39) were in the Social Science & Commerce program.
The majority of the participants (96%; n = 48) reported using text messages in general on a daily basis, and almost all of the participants (94%; n = 47) reported using text messages to text their partner on a daily …show more content…
Over half of the participants (68%; n = 34) strongly agreed with the claim “I still feel a connection with my partner”, slightly less than half of the participants (46%; n = 23) strongly disagreed to the claim “I sometimes wonder if there is someone else out there for me”, and exactly half of the participants (50%; n = 25) strongly agreed with the claim “I can’t imagine ending my relationship with my partner”. As well, half of the participants (50%; n = 25) strongly agreed with the claim “I cannot imagine another person making me as happy as my partner does”, slightly more than half of the participants (54%; n = 27) answered “Strongly agree” to the claim “If I had my life to live over, I would live with/date the same person”, and the majority of the participants (60%; n = 30) responded “Never” to the question “How often do you wish you hadn’t gotten in this relationship?”. Finally, the participants on average gave a rate of 8.1 on 10 (1 being “not much” and 10 being “very much”) for the scale “To what extent has your relationship met your original expectations?” with the