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  1. Online Dating and Problematic Use: A Systematic Review

    Gabriel Bonilla-Zorita, Mark Damian Griffiths, Daria Joanna Kuss · 2020 · International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction · 111 citations

    Abstract Despite the constant growth in the use of online dating sites and mobile dating applications, research examining potential problematic use of online dating has remained scarce. Previous research has obviated problematic use of online dating in favour of users’ personality correlates and scams through online dating services. A systematic review was carried out using PsycINFO and Web of Science databases to gather previous findings that address potential problematic use of online dating by (i) identifying use and motivations, (ii) assessing users’ personality correlates, (iii) outlining negative correlates of use, (iv) examining sexual and impulsive behaviour, (v) exploring substance

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  2. Swipe-based dating applications use and its association with mental health outcomes: a cross-sectional study

    Nicol Holtzhausen, Keersten Fitzgerald, Ishaan Thakur, et al. · 2020 · BMC Psychology · 108 citations

    BACKGROUND: Swipe-Based Dating Applications (SBDAs) function similarly to other social media and online dating platforms but have the unique feature of "swiping" the screen to either like or dislike another user's profile. There is a lack of research into the relationship between SBDAs and mental health outcomes. The aim of this study was to study whether adult SBDA users report higher levels of psychological distress, anxiety, depression, and lower self-esteem, compared to people who do not use SBDAs. METHODS: A cross-sectional online survey was completed by 437 participants. Mental health (MH) outcomes included the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale, Generalised Anxiety Disorder-2 scale,

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  3. Exploring online dating and customer relationship management

    Alan D. Smith · 2005 · Online Information Review · 22 citations

    Purpose: To explore and add insight to the online‐dating services phenomena which is the next product and beneficiary of the internet revolution that offers customers a convenient and affordable alternate to traditional methods of dating. Design/methodology/approach: Empirically investigated through conceptual models and statistical methods was the value proposition of online matchmaking services, which boils down to the ability to provide appropriate matches through successfully business‐to‐customer (B2C) customer service enhanced by the web and based on sound customer relations management practices. Findings: The differentiation of the marketplace includes unique ways to collect user‐based

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  4. Flirting, Cheating, Dating, and Mating in a Virtual World

    Julie M. Albright, Eddie Simmens · 2013 · Oxford University Press eBooks · 17 citations

    Abstract Early theorists in the field of computer-mediated communication posited it would be difficult, if not impossible, to form interpersonal relationships over computer networks because of the lack of physical proximity of communicators. Despite these dire predictions, online dating has flourished, recently becoming the third most common way that people met their spouses in both the United States and Europe, and it continues to grow in developing nations like China and India. The following chapter surveys the extant research on the demographics, issues, and outcomes surrounding online matchmaking and relationship formation, beginning with an historical overview of the technological devel

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  5. Online Dating Is Shifting Educational Inequalities in Marriage Formation in Germany

    Gina Potarca · 2021 · Demography · 17 citations

    Digital technologies govern a large part of our social lives, including the pursuit of a romantic partner. Despite recent inquiries into the social consequences of meeting online, what remains unclear is how the link between education and union formation varies in online versus offline meeting contexts, particularly on the backdrop of growing educational gaps in marriage. Using 2008–2019 pairfam data from Germany (N = 3,561), this study ran a series of Fine-Gray competing risks models to assess how online dating shapes the transition to marriage for partnered adults with nontertiary and tertiary education. Results reveal that irrespective of education, men in online-formed couples had greate

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  7. Disruption or reproduction? Nativity, gender and online dating in Canada

    Yue Qian · 2021 · Internet Research · 11 citations

    Purpose The spread of the Internet has transformed the dating landscape. Given the increasing popularity of online dating and rising immigration to Canada, this study takes an intersectional lens to examine nativity and gender differentials in heterosexual online dating. Design/methodology/approach In 2018, a random-digit-dial telephone survey was conducted in Canada. Logistic regression models were used to analyze original data from this survey (N = 1,373). Findings Results show that immigrants are more likely than native-born people to have used online dating in Canada, possibly because international relocation makes it more difficult for immigrants to meet romantic partners in other ways.

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  8. Types of Male Adolescent Violence Against Women in Three Contexts: Dating Violence Offline, Dating Violence Online, and Sexual Harassment Online Outside a Relationship

    María José Díaz-Aguado, Rosario Martínez-Arias · 2022 · Frontiers in Psychology · 7 citations

    There has been little investigation of male adolescent violence against women as acknowledged by boys themselves, and even less on such violence in different contexts with comparative studies of behavior between those who perpetrate this violence and the population at large. This study used cluster analysis to establish a male adolescent typology based on boys’ self-reporting of violence against women in three contexts. The participants were 3,132 Spanish teenage boys aged 14–18 with experience of relationships with girls. Three discrete, identifiable types were obtained: the first group (69.8%), ofnon-violentboys; the second group (26%), more involved insexual harassment onlineoutside a rel

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  9. Online dating technology effects on interpersonal relationships

    Anabel Homnack · 2015 · Scholar Commons (Santa Clara University) · 6 citations

    The trend of online dating has been around since the emergence of the Internet. In the generation before the online era, people would meet face-to-face in cafes, on streets or at bars or even on airplanes. People make initial contact based on a number of cues and preferences, getting to know one another in person. Today these coincidental or so to say "meant to be" moments seem to be non-existent. Why have they become such a rarity? Is it because we know that there is an easy way out? What will it take for people to be as straightforward and confident in reality as they are behind the safety of their screens? It feels as though time spent with people in person has became a so to say 'hot com

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  11. Virtual speed dating: Utilizing online‐meeting platforms to study initial attraction and relationship formation

    Juliana E. French, Lindsay J. Bolton, Andrea L. Meltzer · 2024 · Personal Relationships · 2 citations

    There is still much to learn about attraction and relationship formation. Here, we introduce an innovative method that utilizes modern technology to permit large‐scale, observational study of dyadic behavior that may yield new empirical insights into how people choose partners and form relationships: virtual speed dating. In doing so, we provide a methodological overview of a recent virtual speed‐dating study that we conducted, and we provide guidance for other scholars who wish to conduct such a study. Not only does virtual speed dating permit a feasible way to conduct large‐scale speed‐dating research and observe dyadic behavior during initial meeting and dating interactions, but it can be

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  12. Dating-Apps im intersubjektiven Geschehen: Tinder, Grindr und Co. als Optionen der Beziehungsinitiierung

    Matthias Völcker, Sascha Landeck, Katharina Poltze, et al. · 2020 · Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung · 2 citations

    Wir beschäftigen uns in diesem Aufsatz mit Phänomenen netzgängiger Beziehungsinitiierung und der Relevanz von Dating-Apps im intersubjektiven Geschehen. Neben der skizzenhaften Aufarbeitung eines komplexen und ambivalenten Forschungsstandes stellen wir die Ergebnisse einer Interviewstudie mit Nutzer*innen solcher Apps vor. In der Auswertung des empirischen Materials, welches wir mithilfe der Grounded-Theory-Methodologie (GTM) realisierten, eröffnen wir Einblicke in technologisch vermittelte kommunikative Prozesse und arbeiten die (inter-)subjektive(n) Bedeutsamkeit(en) solcher Apps heraus.

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  13. Dating and online partnership formation

    Gina Potârcă · 2025 · Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 1 citations

    This chapter provides an overview of research on the patterns and implications of online dating for partnership formation. Digital tools for partner selection such as dating websites, apps, and social networks have transformed how people meet, reducing the importance of geographical proximity and expanding opportunities to connect with others beyond their immediate environment. In the last decade, researchers have explored how these changes affect partnering patterns. The chapter highlights two main strands of (mostly) quantitative research inspired by the advent of online dating. The first wave of studies used digital trace data from dating profiles and contact records to examine early-stag

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  14. The impacts of media richness, blurriness, and beautification of online dating profile visual elements on dating outcomes

    Minhao Dai, Shilin Xia · 2025 · Frontiers in Communication · 1 citations

    Introduction: Online dating is a popular way for individuals to connect today, and the visual elements of an online dating profile have become an essential part of online dating. The current study examined how media richness, visual blurriness, and beautification of an online dating profile’s visual elements would influence online dating outcomes. Methods: We conducted an online dating experiment with 10 different conditions with younger adults between 18 and 35 (n = 389). Results: The results showed that the richer visual elements and the beautified selfie in an online dating profile predicted a number of dating outcomes, including stronger perceived positive traits, more favorable profile

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  16. The Formation of Stereotypes on Female Online Dating Profiles

    Anna Cichosz · 2013 · uO Research (University of Ottawa)

    The purpose of this study is to uncover how both online daters and dating sites are responsible for shaping the manner in which individuals present themselves online to potential suitors. More specifically, the proposed study examines online dating practices by investigating the process for developing an online dating profile on two different dating sites; Match.com, a paid dating site and Plenty of Fish (POF), a free dating site. A paid and unpaid site has been chosen in order to determine whether a fee has an influence on the ability to present in an original way. In the current study, the researcher found that most female daters develop profiles that reinforce a stereotypical image regard

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  17. Not Playing the Game: Negative Opinions about Online Dating and Video Gaming among Non-Participants

    Max Marc · 2017 · Journal of Virtual Worlds Research

    Per prior research, both online dating and video gaming are strongly associated with real and virtual relationship formation among participants. Yet this exploratory research study finds that eighty five percent of internet users have never participated in online dating and fifty percent of survey respondents have never participated in video gaming. This study uses data from a large nationally representative survey on online dating and video gaming in the U.S.The study employs the sociotechnical and the uses-and-gratifications theoretical perspectives to emphasize the role of information technology in shaping and framing relationships, and the importance of understanding individual context i

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  18. Who Does Online Dating Benefit? Association of Adult Attachment with Relationship and Sexual Satisfaction for Online Daters

    Brittany Woolford · 2019

    Research on associations between online dating and later relationship and sexual satisfaction is limited. The purpose of this study is to examine the association between meeting a romantic partner online or in person and later relationship and sexual satisfaction for heterosexual males and females. Main analysis results suggest that men report higher relationship satisfaction when they met their partner online and women with a preoccupied and dismissing attachment style reported higher sexual satisfaction when they met their partner online. Overall, there were few differences in relationship and sexual satisfaction for heterosexual men and women who met their partner online or in person.

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  19. A romantic penalty? Female entrepreneurship and relationship initiation in online dating

    佟镝, Xiumei Li, Haemin Dennis Park · 2026 · Journal of Business Venturing

    Female entrepreneurship is increasingly common, yet we know little about how it affects women's romantic prospects, a crucial outcome with implications for family formation. We propose that female entrepreneurs, particularly those pursuing growth-oriented ventures, face diminished romantic prospects, potentially shaped by gendered trait inferences and concerns about time demand. Using two field experiments, supplemented by a survey experiment, we provide causal evidence that female entrepreneurs are on average penalized in romantic relationship initiation, but are preferred by male entrepreneurs. Further analysis offers suggestive evidence on mechanisms underlying this romantic penalty. By e

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  23. A Study of the Relationship Between Workplace Violence and Online Dating

    Youngkeun Choi · 2022 · International Journal of e-Collaboration

    The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of organizational politics on employees’ online dating behavior and how it influences their job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior. And this study explores if the leader-member exchange can moderate the relationship between organizational politics and online dating behavior. For this, it collected data from 305 employees in Korean companies through a survey method and uses SPSS 18.0 for hierarchical regression analysis for the hypothesis test. In the results, first, organizational politics increases online dating behavior. Second, online dating behavior decreases each relevant factor of job satisfaction and organization

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