Human Communication. A Publication of the Pacific and Asian Communication Association. Vol. 11, No.1, pp. 71 – 86. Relational Maintenance Behaviors of Friends with Benefits: Investigating Equity and Relational Characteristics
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The purpose of this study was to examine the use of relational maintenance behaviors in friend with benefits relationship and investigate these relationships in terms of relational characteristics. Participants were 343 (study 1) and 416 (study 2) individuals who reported on their relationship with either a friend with benefits or opposite sex friend. Results indicated that (a) friends with benefits used less relational maintenance behaviors than opposite sex friends, (b) these behaviors were positively associated with communication satisfaction, relationship satisfaction, liking, commitment, and control mutuality for both types of friendships, (c) the magnitude of these relationships frequently did not differ by friendship type, and (d) overbenefited friends with benefits use several maintenance behaviors less than underbenefited counterparts. Future research should explore how relational rules influence relational maintenance in friend with benefits relationships. Alan K. Goodboy and Scott A. Myers 73
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