What is the key factor in the link between social media use and infidelity?
Higher scores on social media addiction was related to higher scores on social media-related infidelity.Source: Elnur / Shutterstock
Social media can be used to facilitate contact with friends, former friends, or even former romantic partners, through messaging or via interactions and comments on social media posts. Sometimes, although more rarely, we may even begin to perceive social media friends as possible romantic alternatives to our current partners.
Initially, Abbasi found a simple relationship in that social networking site addiction was found to be positively related to social networking site infidelity. Participants who scored higher onHowever, this relationship was to an extent affected by age. Younger participants scored higher on social network site addiction and also social network infidelity in comparison to those who were older. More specifically as age increased, the association became weaker.
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