Reverberations of social media use on conjugality: scoping review
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Marina Zanella Delatorre
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8475-6213
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Crístofer Batista da Costa
Faculdade de Psicologia do Centro de Estudos da Família e do Indivíduo (FACEFI)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1307-1436
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Abstract
Social media has been increasingly incorporated into everyday life, and the interference of excessive use of these technologies is being investigated to assess the impact they have on interpersonal relationships. In this way, the objective was to understand how the use of social media reverberates in the relationships of couples who experience a stable marital regime. The searches in the PsycInfo, Web of Science, LILACS, SciELO and PePSIC databases, returning 328 articles, of which 23 were included in the review. The clustering of results led to four main themes: positive and negative aspects of media use, infidelity, jealousy and surveillance, media addiction or excessive use and online and offline relationships. It was observed that the reverberation of social media in couple relationships involve specific features of the type of media used, individual aspects of the partners, and relational factors, such as the structure (boundaries and rules) and the dynamic processes of the marital relationship.
Keywords:
internet, social networks, marital relations, literature reviewReferences
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