{"id":6633,"date":"2012-09-19T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T17:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=6633"},"modified":"2012-09-21T10:57:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T14:57:06","slug":"study-suggests-post-breakup-facebook-surveillance-can-delay-emotional-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2012\/09\/study-suggests-post-breakup-facebook-surveillance-can-delay-emotional-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests post-breakup Facebook surveillance can delay emotional recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/BrokenHeart.jpg\" alt=\"Broken Heart\" \/>From the Mary Ann Liebert Inc. press release via EurekAlert!:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>More than 900 million people worldwide are active users of the social networking site Facebook, and <strong>it is estimated that as many as one-third report using Facebook to check on the activities of former romantic partners<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The effects of remaining Facebook friends with an ex-lover or even just following their activities online can disrupt a person&#8217;s ability to heal emotionally and move on with his or her life<\/strong>, according to an article in <em>Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking<\/em>, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert Inc., publishers (http:\/\/www.liebertpub.com). The article is available free online on the <em>Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking<\/em>website.<\/p>\n<p>The study entitled &#8220;Facebook Surveillance of Former Romantic Partners: Associations with PostBreakup Recovery and Personal Growth&#8221; assessed the effects of <strong>continued Facebook contact with an ex-partner and of Facebook surveillance, in which there is no actual online contact, but one individual monitors the Facebook page and postings of another<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The study collected data from 464 participants to evaluate their Facebook usage and their emotional recovery and personal adjustment following the breakup of a romantic relationship. It evaluated parameters such as negative feelings, sexual desire and emotional longing for the ex-partner, and feelings of reduced personal growth as measures of distress and the ability to move forward with their lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This study sees again virtual life mirroring real life. <strong>Just as real life contact with ex-partners may inhibit growth, healing, and well-being, so may virtual contact<\/strong>,&#8221; says Brenda K. Wiederhold, PhD, MBA, BCIA, Editor-in-Chief of <em>Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking<\/em>, from the Interactive Media Institute, San Diego, CA.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Mary Ann Liebert Inc. press release via EurekAlert!: More than 900 million people worldwide are active users of the social networking site Facebook, and it is estimated that&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2012\/09\/study-suggests-post-breakup-facebook-surveillance-can-delay-emotional-recovery\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,10,7],"tags":[165,12,166,186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6655,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions\/6655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}