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                                        | Effort, Depth, Satisfaction, and Resilience across the Spectrum of Online-to-Offline Relationships | 27-35 |  
                                        | John Travis Spoede, Jr., Stephanie Ellis, Ron Homann |  |  
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                                        | DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.376755 |  
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                                        | Abstract |  
                                        | The aim of this study is to explore the differences across the spectrum of digital and in-person  relation-ships, which is more true to the actual social experience of young adults than most of the  available re-search in this area, which tends to falsely dichotomize relationships as “online” or  “offline.” The authors measured perceived relationship depth, effort, satisfaction, and resilience  for as many relationships as participants chose to list across five categories: primarily in-person,  primarily digital, combined in-person and digital, formerly in-person, and formerly-digital.  Moderate, positive relationships were found among all variables across all relationship types,  indicating that these are not independent constructs and are all important in understanding  relationships of any kind. Those relationships with a strong, current in-person component  (primarily in-person and combined) were rated as significantly deeper, more satisfying, more  resilient, and requiring more effort than those without. Currently digital relationships (e.g., faceto-face  friendships that had since transitioned to primarily online communication) consistently  represented a middle ground between the high in-person contact and low in-person contact  relationships, which substantiates the conceptualization of relationships along a continuum of  online to offline. Interesting findings related to gender and relationship type (e.g., friend, relative)  were also found.  |  
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                                        | Copyright © 2016 by authors and IBII. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International  License (CC BY 4.0). |  
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                                        | How to cite this review in APA |  
                                        | J. T. Spoede, S. Ellis, R. Homann. (2016). Effort, Depth, Satisfaction, and Resilience across the Spectrum of Online-to-Offline Relationships. Journal of Management Science and Business Intelligence, 1(1), 27-35. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.376755 |      |    |  |