From first email to first date: Strategies for initiating relationships in online dating

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 3389-3407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liesel L. Sharabi ◽  
Tiffany A. Dykstra-DeVette
Keyword(s):  
Online Dating ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Mate Preferences ◽  
Dating Relationships ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Authentic Self ◽  
Relationship Initiation ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Shared Context ◽  
First Contact

The present study explores the relationship initiation process in online dating using participants’ ( N = 105) naturally occurring email messages to a prospective romantic partner. Data were collected online at time one, and participants were recontacted at time two (after meeting their partner offline) to assess the likelihood of continued interaction. A qualitative content analysis uncovered 7 broad categories and 18 subcategories of strategies for initiating relationships in online dating. The analysis indicated that participants’ relationships followed a trajectory that often began with the use of pickup lines to initiate contact and culminated with the transition offline. Along the way, they alternated between strategies for attracting and selecting a partner, constructing an authentic self-presentation, creating a shared context for interaction, revealing and seeking information, and adapting to the online dating environment. Additional quantitative analyses revealed differences in strategy use related to gender and the outcome of the first date. That is, men were generally more direct than women (e.g., by sending the first message), and those who discussed their mate preferences tended to report a higher likelihood of a second date than other participants. The results have implications for the hyperpersonal model, as well as for illuminating the evolution of online dating relationships from the first contact with a partner to meeting offline.

scholarly journals Understanding Muslims Self-presentation Strategies in Online Dating

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-89
Author(s):  
Adamu Abubakar ◽  
Nur Irdina Mohd Noorani ◽  
Ummu Syafiqah Mohd Rashidi
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Personal Profile ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
Profile Pictures ◽  
Personal Interests

This paper investigates the factors influencing online self-presentation strategies on dating platforms, and explore how Muslims users manage their online presentation on dating approach –associated with Muslim-oriented dating application and mainstream-oriented dating application in order to accomplish the goal of finding partner. Twenty-profiles from Tinder and MusMatch active online dating user was used for the study. Qualitative content analysis was used to explore the approaches of interactions associated with individual self-presentation. Four main themes were generated: Screen names, Terminal identities, Net Presence and Personal Profile. The findings reveal that both MusMatch and Tinder allow its users to choose their own screen names without any restrictions. The platforms showed how screen names can be used as a strategy to present certain impression. Users tend to post their personal interests in order to attract their potential partners on Tinder as well as MuzMatch. Users of MuzMatch used acronyms to identify themselves, whereas, users of Tinders are free to construct a socially desirable identity that may attract people’s attention and publicity. The frequency with which MusMatch users appear to interact for relationship that leads to marriage is far more than any other form of relationship. Tinder users are free to post anything as their profile picture, whereas in MuzMatch it requires authentic profile pictures. MusMatch provision for establishing relationship requires that a chaperone should be allow to mediate interactions among the potential partners in order to preserve Muslims-oriented dating style

Love in Cyberspace: Self Presentation and Partner Seeking in Online Dating Advertisements of Older Adults

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2098202
Author(s):  
Wendy Watson ◽  
Charlie Stelle
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
A Site ◽  
Physically Attractive ◽  
Different Order

This qualitative content analysis of a systematically selected sample of 200 heterosexual adults aged 60+ years examined older adults’ self-presentation in online dating ads and what they sought in a partner. Online dating ads were examined from one site for adults of all ages ( match.com ) and a site specifically geared to older adults (ourtime.com). Results showed that aspects of self that are presented for men and women, although in different order of importance, included one’s status, enjoying leisure activities and being fun-loving, kind/compassionate, and being friend and family focused. Men and women were interested in a companion and someone fun-loving and kind/compassionate. Additionally, women sought a partner who was honest and would do leisure activities with them. Men sought women who were physically attractive and would provide emotional support. The discussion focuses on gender differences and how the act of self-presentation is central in the narratives of dating ads for older adults.

scholarly journals BE ATTRACTIVE ON TINDER - HOW TO CREATE YOUR IMAGE THROUGH ONLINE DATING APP

ICCD ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-25
Author(s):  
Atiya Isfahani
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Visual Appearance ◽  
Human Interactions ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Personal Branding ◽  
Front Region

Human interactions are being communicated by means of electronic, Internet-based Medias. This research is about representation differ in presentation on online dating applications. This study is aimed at understanding how images are used as a means of creating an identity, specifically through Tinder. Self-presentation is divided into two parts: the front region and the back region. The front region is the area where a person displays a self-presentation that he/she wants to show the audience or user in this context in the picture. Front region consists of setting, appearance, and manner that are related to each other. In the back region, the appearance is a visual appearance that is not displayed or any activity performed. That will create impression management in Tinder which create personal branding. In this study qualitative method are used to answer the research questions. The process of research involves emerging questions and procedures, data typically collected in the participant’s setting, data analysis inductively building from particulars to general themes, and the researcher making interpretations of the meaning of the data. The results showed that starting from self-presentation, every participant have their own style to build their own personal branding to make him/her unique among all the other tinder user. This allows them to stand out. The implication of this research is the need for management of personal branding for every individual involved because personal branding is really important as a form of self-presentation in order to compete in relationship or business.

Exploring Online Dating in Line With the “Social Compensation” and “Rich-Get-Richer” Hypotheses

2019 ◽  
pp. 98-113
Author(s):  
Samantha Stinson ◽  
Debora Jeske
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Personal Variables ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Rich

Computer-mediated communication offers a range of potentially appealing features, including selective self-presentation, social presence control, and simultaneous as well as asynchronous interaction tools. The study examines the influence of personality (introversion and extraversion) and personal variables (social anxiety and public self-consciousness) on online dating preferences from two competing perspectives: the “social compensation” (SC) hypothesis and the “rich-get-richer” (RGR) hypothesis. Survey results (N = 162) revealed that the SC and RGR hypotheses do not hold true within the context of online dating. The findings suggest a stronger role of social influence (e.g., peers) in the decision to online date. The SC and RGR hypotheses may be limited in terms of the extent to which these frameworks adequately explain this online behavior. This may also be due to the increasing popularity of online dating sites, which may make personality and personal traits less informative of whether individuals will opt to use such services.

Gender Differences in the Dating Experiences of African American Young Adults: The Challenge of Forming Romantic Relationships Within the Context of Power Imbalance

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie Gordon Simons ◽  
Tara E. Sutton ◽  
Antoinette M. Landor ◽  
Ashley B. Barr ◽  
Chalandra M. Bryant ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Mate Preferences ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Dating Relationships ◽  
Using Data ◽  
American Young Adults

Past research has documented that structural factors produce a skewed dating market in African American communities that advantages men over women. Using data collected from a sample of 495 African American young adults (55.8% women, Mage = 22), we tested the idea that African American men can be more selective when choosing dating partners than their female counterparts due to their power advantage. Consonant with this hypothesis, our results indicated that women who had characteristics consistent with men’s mate preferences were significantly more likely to be involved in dating relationships. However, there were no associations between the likelihood of men’s dating frequency or relationship status and whether they typified women’s mate preferences. These findings support the contention that, unlike their male counterparts, African American women may have to compromise their mate preferences and date less desirable partners due to the gendered power disadvantage in the dating market.

Gendered dating messages have consequences for both intended and unintended audiences

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 3554-3574
Author(s):  
Jessica J. Cameron ◽  
Kelley J. Robinson ◽  
Patti C. Parker ◽  
Christine Hole
Keyword(s):  
Self Presentation ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Relationship Initiation ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Self Protection ◽  
Self Presentations

Would-be-daters are surrounded by media messages that both target one gender and pit men and women against each other in the dating game (i.e., gendered relationship messages). How do these messages influence relationship initiation? In the present research, we focus on the consequences of being primed with gendered dating messages via actual book titles. We propose that such messages should have mixed consequences depending on (a) whether the reader’s gender is congruent with the message’s target gender and (b) the dating outcome. In two experiments, we tested how exposure to gendered dating messages influences emotions, motivation, and self-presentation. Individuals exposed to gender-incongruent messages exhibited higher self-protection motives. Conversely, those exposed to gender-congruent messages experienced reduced feelings of vulnerability, yet had the counterproductive consequence of creating less likeable self-presentations. Would-be-daters should be cautious in their exposure to both gender-congruent and gender-incongruent dating messages.

scholarly journals “Gendering” the Self in Online Dating Discourse

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melonie Fullick
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Online Dating ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
New Literacy ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
Gender Presentation ◽  
Insight Into

Online dating has become an increasingly acceptable way for “singles” to meet appropriate partners. The author uses discourse analysis to explore the use of language in the construction of gendered identities in 20 online profiles, comparing the norms of gender presentation and communication with the ways in which language is used to signal various kinds of gendered “selves.” Dating sites require users to develop a new literacy of self-presentation, one that reinforces and re-inscribes the tendency toward promotionalism that permeates contemporary social life. In this context, how are Internet and social media users tapping into existing social and cultural resources and putting gender norms to work in their representations of self? How do online dating sites provide insight into an ongoing, reflexive process of self-promotion and self-construction?Les services de rencontre en ligne sont devenus un moyen de plus en plus acceptable pour les célibataires de chercher des partenaires convenables. Dans cet article, l’auteure a recours à l’analyse du discours afin d’explorer, dans vingt profils en ligne, l’utilisation du langage pour la construction d’une identité sexuée. L’auteure compare les normes de présentation et de communication de genre avec la manière dont le langage est utilisé pour afficher diverses sortes de soi sexués. Les sites de rencontre obligent les utilisateurs à développer une nouvelle présentation de soi qui renforce et réinscrit une tendance à ce type de promotion qui est si présent dans la vie sociale contemporaine. Dans ce contexte, comment les utilisateurs d’internet et des médias sociaux utilisent-ils les ressources sociales et culturelles qui sont à leur disposition et comment incorporent-ils les normes de genre dans leurs représentations de soi? Comment d’autre part les sites de rencontre permettent-ils de mieux comprendre les processus continus et réflexifs de la promotion et de la construction de soi?

Dating deception: Gender, online dating, and exaggerated self-presentation

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 642-647 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosanna E. Guadagno ◽  
Bradley M. Okdie ◽  
Sara A. Kruse
Keyword(s):  
Online Dating ◽  
Self Presentation

The elephant in the room: Facilitating conversations about advanced cancer between patients and their spouses.

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (26_suppl) ◽  
pp. 233-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura S. Porter ◽  
Laura FIsh ◽  
Hope Elizabeth Uronis ◽  
Yousuf Zafar ◽  
Karen E. Steinhauser
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Advanced Illness ◽  
Emotional Intimacy ◽  
Quantitative Analyses

233 Background: Interventions to enhance couples’ communication about cancer-related issues can lead to benefits for patients, spouses, and their relationships. We recently conducted a pilot study testing a couples communication skills training (CCST) intervention targeted to couples in which one partner had advanced GI cancer, a population who may need particular help addressing difficult and emotionally-laden topics related to life-limiting illness. Results of quantitative analyses suggested that the intervention was effective in improving relationship satisfaction for these couples. The objective of the current study was to analyze intervention session conversation content to identify themes that couples addressed spontaneously, with the ultimate goal of determining whether an intervention that more specifically guides couples to discuss issues related to end of life and the life-limiting nature of the patient’s illness would be acceptable. Methods: 12 couples (10 male and 2 female patients and their spouses) completed the 6 session CCST intervention which provided training in communication skills for sharing thoughts and feelings and making decisions, and gave couples the opportunity to use these skills to discuss cancer-related issues of their choosing. We conducted qualitative content analysis of the 72 audio-recorded sessions, and coded common and recurrent topics raised by patients and spouses. In addition to identifying breadth of topics, we used theme frequency as an initial gauge of theme importance and acceptability. Results: The most common themes identified were prognosis, treatment, emotional intimacy, completion, spouse’s life after the death of the patient, roles, communication, sublimating needs, emotional support, and family. These represent themes previously identified as important to patients at end of life, as well as themes unique to dyads in intimate relationships. Conclusions: These findings support the feasibility of conducting an intervention that combines training in communication skills with guidance for using these skills to discuss topics that are potentially most meaningful to couples facing advanced illness.

On the Pragmatics of Qualitative Assessment

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Schilling
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Leadership Theories ◽  
Implicit Leadership ◽  
Implicit Leadership Theories ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
Quantitative Analyses

Using the example of a project on the assessment of implicit leadership theories, this article aims to describe qualitative content analysis as a systematic, rule-based process of analyzing verbal and textual data (e.g., interviews, group discussions, documents). Steps and typical problems in the qualitative assessment process are addressed and guidelines for decision and action presented. The steps include transcription of interview tapes into raw data, condensing and structuring the data, building and applying a category system, displaying data and results for concluding analyses and interpretation. Necessary checks for securing the quality of the assessment are shown for each step. Ideas for the combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses are presented, and applications of qualitative content analysis in the field of psychological assessment discussed.

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