Abstract
Mobile phone communication has established itself as an essential element of people's personal and working lives medium of connection in daily interactions and relationships. It has thus become significant for the most intimate form of interpersonal relations, including marital relationships. This small-scale research seeks to find the importance of mobile phone communication in marriage and its influence on family happiness. The study unearths the patterns of mobile phone communication among married partners, by outlining the most common reasons for communicating with the spouse on a mobile phone. In this research, a survey was conducted using a questionnaire to collect data from 30 respondents who were married partners, staff, or students in one of the state-owned universities in South Kalimantan. Each of the respondents possessed a mobile phone. The Mann-Whitney test indicates that the males profoundly believed that mobile phone communication was more important to their marriage than females to strengthen their relationship. Also, the males reported a higher frequency of sending messages and calling their spouses. By and large, the study results describe the most common reasons for communicating with the spouse. The outstanding reason is maintaining a strong intimate relationship by keeping in touch, sharing updates, emotions, feelings, knowing about children, and ensuring the safety of each other through checking on one another using a mobile phone. The findings have significance in showing the need for continued communication in a marital relationship, especially by using the fastest and most comfortable means of mobile phone. Given the synchronous nature of mobile phone communication, the results indicate that married spouses cannot do without it, especially in this Information Society, where we need updates from our spouses, children, friends, and the situation at large.
Highlights
Mobile phone communication has established itself as an element of ‘human’s personal and working lives
Most of the past studies have focused more on the negative impact of using mobile phones [11,12], some studies reveal mobile phone usage among married couples as an effective and successful way of communication. These findings further anticipate that it does not necessarily mean that mobile phone usage among couples could only have negative consequences [13], the current study has opted for the positive side of the use of mobile phone among married couples for marital communication, which further evolves into satisfaction with life and family happiness
Researchers observed that satisfaction comes when the couples frequently stay connected to each other, and their ‘texting pattern or attitude equates to each other [11]. This suggests that a longer relationship exists between married couples when they are frequently keeping in touch, which is more effective by using a medium that makes it possible in an effective way, i.e., a mobile phone
Summary
Mobile phone communication has established itself as an element of ‘human’s personal and working lives. Most of the past studies have focused more on the negative impact of using mobile phones [11,12], some studies reveal mobile phone usage among married couples as an effective and successful way of communication These findings further anticipate that it does not necessarily mean that mobile phone usage among couples could only have negative consequences [13], the current study has opted for the positive side of the use of mobile phone among married couples for marital communication, which further evolves into satisfaction with life and family happiness. The current study has aligned its proposed model with the attachment theory, advancing to existing literature related to technology and social theories [15] It suggests strengthening couples’ bond through marital communication by using a mobile phone and investigating how mobile phone communication supports the marriage relationship. To suggest the underlying mechanism of marital communication between mobile phone usage and positive outcomes like satisfaction with life and family happiness
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