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Hannum, James W. Hannum, James W. Rounds, James Karahalios, Karrie G. Robinson-Cimpian, Joseph P. Weiner, Aaron 2013-08-22T16:56:37Z 2013-08-22T16:56:37Z 2015-08-22T10:00:57Z 2013-08 2013-08-22T16:56:37Z 2013-08 While friendship over distance was once rare, numerous new technological options have created the opportunity to maintain friendships while not being geographically proximate. However, research examining the friendship dynamics of long-distance friends is rare, and the effects of communication and personality on long-distance friendship maintenance have not been fully explored. The present study represents a longitudinal examination of the effects of communication and personality variables on maintaining a best friendship from high-school over participants’ first year of college, as well as the effects of this maintenance on the development of a new social network. In terms of communication quantity, results indicated that text messaging frequency was the most consistently associated with friendship maintenance over distance. Instant messages (IMs) and communication via social networking sites (SNSs) were also associated with multiple relational outcomes. In regard to communication quality, higher quality of communication was associated with positive relational outcomes for all mediums except for e-mail and face-to-face contact. Agreeableness and Extraversion were also strongly related to positive friendship outcomes, although did not affect the trajectory of relational outcomes over time. Positive associations were also observed between maintaining a high-school best friend and both social and psychological outcomes. Possible future directions and limitations are also discussed. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2013-05-20T14:18:26Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Weiner_Aaron.pdf: 1131237 bytes, checksum: 087a13b5de7878544b08ed450785210b (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-08-22T16:56:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Aaron_Weiner.pdf: 1131240 bytes, checksum: fc8b758c93e8f786e1becd1cc839583b (MD5) license.txt: 4061 bytes, checksum: ba36f1ce5ce5be24ef4132408476f6f8 (MD5) Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:36:29-05:00 Original Data Group with Access Administrator Release Date: 2015-08-22 11:57:26 UTC Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Item marked as restricted to the 'Administrator' Group (id=1) by Seth Robbins (srobbins@illinois.edu) on 2013-08-22T16:57:36Z Item is restricted until 2015-08-22T16:57:26Z Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 45629 on 2015-08-22T10:00:57Z. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/45647 en Copyright 2013, Aaron Weiner Long distance friendship friendship personality individual differences communication computer-mediated communication friendship maintenance Friendships across time and space: the effects of a life transition on friendships text Educational Psychology 1616 Educational Psychology 0210 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Educatnl Psychology -UIUC 10KS0210PHD