Research: Happy couples share less on social media – the Newspaper Nordland

do you Feel a need to show off how good you have it on social media?

(PAGE2): We all have some of them in the vennelista our on Facebook. Occasionally, we consider to delete them, but then we know that there are kleint the day we suddenly are sitting next to them on one or another party or happen to hit them at the krydderhylla at Rema 1000.

We’re talking of course about skrytepar on Facebook. Those who have the “world’s best girlfriend” and that is “so insanely lucky”. Those who “can’t believe that you are only my” and those who write “miss you, dear” on each other’s Facebook wall (even if we other stopped to write on the wall to the people in 2007).

The more insecure, the more visible the

But are they really these couples so much happier than all of us? Or is all parbildene on Facebook more about confirmation than real happiness?

A study from 2014 has looked more closely at exactly this. Researchers at Aalto University in Finland, invited 108 couples to participate in three related studies, where they had to write diary about their relationship for two weeks.

the Researchers concluded that there was a trend when it came to when and how often couples share their love on social media. The more uncertain they were in the relationship, the more visible they made the relationship on Facebook.

Felt greater need to brag

But it is to share their love for each other on social media, do not mean that we do not have it well together. But if you share because you feel a need to brag or show others how good you have it, it may be more than real happiness behind the split.

Researchers at Albright College has also seen a closer look at how the sweethearts use popular social media platforms, writes Newswise.

Their study shows that couples who have fine together also share declarations of love and pictures on Facebook. At the same time they saw a distinct trend among individuals with a high degree of so-called “relationship contigent self-esteem” (RCSE), which largely lets his girlfriend and the relationship to influence their own self-esteem. These individuals also shared both the photos and declarations of love, but felt an urge to boast of the relationship.

In addition, they used a greater extent, Facebook, to monitor his girlfriend.

- These results show that those with high levels of RCSE feel a need to show others, their partners and perhaps themselves, that the relationship is OK, and therefore, they are also OK, says psychology professor Gwendolyn Seidman.