Examining intercultural differences in close friendship maintenance on Facebook: a relational dialectics perspective

• Main Author: Tengku Mohd Azzman, Tengku Siti Aisha
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); H61.8 Communication of information; P87 Communication. Mass media
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/57859/9/ICIMAC%202017.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/57859/10/Acceptance%20Letter_TengkuAisha.PDF; http://irep.iium.edu.my/57859/; http://icimac2017.usim.edu.my/
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

Close friendship is a crucial and unique interpersonal tie that can survive a lifetime. Maintaining such friendships at a satisfactory level, even with the aid of social networking websites (SNS) such as Facebook, can be a challenging process. Previous research has shown that relationship satisfacti...