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- Title
Mobile Phone and Family Happiness, Mediating Role of Marital Communication: An Attachment Theory Perspective.
- Authors
Akrim, A.; Dalle, Juhriyansyah
- Abstract
Mobile phone communication has established itself as an essential element of people's personal and working lives. Thus, it has become a significant connection for the most intimate form of interpersonal relations, including marital relationships. Based on the attachment theory perspective, this research highlights the importance of mobile phone usage and its influence on marital communication's life satisfaction and family happiness through the underlying mechanism of marital communication. Using a short cross-sectional field survey, data from 120 respondents were collected. The target sample was married partners, staff, or students, each possessing a mobile phone in the stateowned universities in South Kalimantan and North Sumatera, Indonesia. Data were further analyzed using SmartPLS3. The results revealed that mobile phone usage was positively associated with martial communication that further resulted in satisfaction with life and family happiness. Hence, based on the attachment theory perspective, the communication with the spouse results in maintaining a robust intimate relationship by keeping in touch, sharing updates, emotions, feelings, knowing about children, and ensuring each other's safety through using a mobile phone. The findings showed a significant need for continued communication in a marital relationship, especially using the fastest and most comfortable means. Given the synchronous nature of mobile phone communication, current research provided multiple insights and avenues of future exploration for social scientists in this Information Society, where we need updates from our spouses, children, friends, and the situation at large.
- Subjects
INDONESIA; MARITAL communication; CELL phones; LIFE satisfaction; INTERPERSONAL relations; SOCIAL scientists; HAPPINESS
- Publication
International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies, 2021, Vol 15, Issue 21, p107
- ISSN
1865-7923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3991/ijim.v15i21.17811