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

• Main Author: Tengku Mohd Azzman, Tengku Siti Aisha
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: UKM Press 2018
• Subjects: P87 Communication. Mass media
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/66798/19/66798_Examining%20intercultural%20differences%20in%20close%20friendship%20maintenance%20on%20Facebook_article.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/66798/13/66798_Examining%20intercultural%20differences%20in%20close%20friendship%20maintenance%20on%20Facebook_SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/66798/; http://ejournal.ukm.my/mjc/article/view/22507/8409
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

Close friendship is a crucial and distinctive 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 satis...