Dirty laundry: The nature and substance of seeking relationship help from strangers online.

ABSTRACT: Interpersonal relationships are vital to our well-being. In recent years, it has become increasingly common to seek relationship help through anonymous online platforms. Accordingly, we conducted a large-scale analysis of real-world relationship help-seeking to create a descriptive overview of the nature and substance of online relationship help-seeking. By analyzing the demographic characteristics and language of relationship help-seekers on Reddit (N = 184,631), we establish the first-ever big data analysis of relationship help-seeking and relationship problems in situ among the general population. Our analyses highlight real-world relationship struggles found in the general population, extending beyond past work that is typically limited to counseling/intervention settings

SUBMITTER: Entwistle C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8669208 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature